The deputy spokesperson for the Nationalist Group (CC-PNC) in the Cabildo of Lanzarote, Pedro San Ginés, has announced that he will sue the president of the first institution, María Dolores Corujo, for "slander", "after the series of consecutive notes sent from her press office (eight so far)", in which she maintains that "she consciously lies and distorts all the information related to the hiring and costs for the public coffers of the lawyer Ignacio Calatayud, which denotes the clear political intentionality of a completely false story from beginning to end".
“All Inalsa contracts and payments during the bankruptcy proceedings could only be approved and ordered by the bankruptcy administrators, but never by the political management, which had been replaced at the head of the company by court order, and the board of directors suspended in its functions”, assures the former president of the Cabildo and former CEO of the public water company.
Regarding the assignment to the lawyer of "everything related to the bankruptcy proceedings, including the bankruptcy incidents", he states that "it was agreed unanimously by the Board of Directors of Inalsa", although what the current managers denounce is that the fees to be charged were not defined, and that later San Ginés excluded the incidents from the budget that he himself had signed. In this regard, the former president alleges that “the economic conditions of the contract, including the bankruptcy incidents, could only be approved by the bankruptcy administrators, who established that these incidents would not have any cost for the public coffers and that, in any case, the lawyer would only charge for them if, having won the incidents, there was a conviction in costs".
However, the current management of Inalsa states that there is no document in which this agreement is written. The only thing there is is a letter sent now to the Court, in response to the new claim for fees from Calatayud, in which only one of the bankruptcy administrators refers to it. In addition, they denounce that there is no hiring file or document that supports San Ginés's designation of this same lawyer to also represent the Water Consortium in one of the bankruptcy incidents, emphasizing that the Consortium was not judicially intervened nor therefore depended on the administrators.
Denies that the money charged by Calatayud had "the character of public funds"
"The list of lies poured out by María Dolores Corujo in this whole matter, using a public instrument such as the institution's press office at will and in the name of Inalsa, is endless, and the only thing it demonstrates and highlights is her abuse of power and her obsession with the former president of the Cabildo, today deputy spokesperson for CC-PNC", San Ginés himself argues in a statement.
“Neither has Inalsa paid almost a million euros to the lawyer, nor is there undue approval of 800,000 euros”, he assures. And it is that although he does not deny that the lawyer charged that sum for his interventions in the Inalsa bankruptcy, he considers that they did not have "the character of public funds”, given that the last amount corresponded to procedural costs that the other party paid him. In this regard, the current government group has denounced that these costs actually corresponded to the client, Inalsa, and not to the lawyer, since they were “credits in favor of the company”, but San Ginés also denies it. "If this were the case, it would not be understood that those who were precisely ensuring the best use of Inalsa's assets and rights to save the company by court order, would have agreed to what has already been explained", he reiterates in reference to the bankruptcy administrators.
For the nationalist councilor, "what is clear is that the president, María Dolores Corujo, has institutionalized the lie by using the Cabildo's Press Office and the Presidency's Office in a partisan manner, directed by Mario Alberto Perdomo and Carlos Espino, respectively, who work exclusively for the PSOE to distort reality, in a clear and denouncable abuse of institutional power to prevent talk of the real scandal of the moment, which is who pays and why the defector councilor in Corujo's government, Juan Manuel Sosa".
