The CEO of the Centers for Art, Culture and Tourism (CACT), Benjamín Perdomo, filed an administrative lawsuit four months ago to collect a debt of 750,000 euros allegedly linked to the diets of Pedro San Ginés when he was president of the Cabildo of Lanzarote. "Because here the boy went to eat with everyone and threw parties," he said this Wednesday on Radio Lanzarote.
The step prior to filing the administrative lawsuit was to request the food requests from the Cabildo, "no technician will sign it for you like that, so I have no other way to collect it," he added. Perdomo narrated during his radio intervention that Pedro San Ginés supposedly requested the retention of credit for diets through email, "the service was given to him, now you pay what corresponds to you," he said.
In this line, the CEO of the Tourist Centers pointed to the management of the former president of the Cabildo during his time at the Centers. "He got like a ball eating there and then it was the workers' fault," Perdomo accuses. "750,000 euros in food, you have to eat, huh!, you have to feed the pig."
He also states that when he entered the management of the centers, he "had a debt of ten million euros" derived from the management of the Canarian Coalition. In a radio interview granted to Radio Lanzarote, the councilor responds to the accusations made by the nationalist group this Tuesday. The deputy spokesperson of the nationalist group, Pedro San Ginés, accused the current president of the Cabildo, Dolores Corujo, and Perdomo himself of lying about the debt of the Tourist Centers.
For Perdomo, the canon that the Tourist Centers must pay should be stipulated based on the benefits received by the company "like any state public company," he stressed. The CEO of the CACT insists that the prices to be paid in the canon have always been readjusted to balance the accounts of the Cabildo. "If for a long time things have been done wrong and technically things have not been done well, not only the political part, but also the technical part, that is not my problem," Perdomo says about the criteria for collecting the canon.
In addition, he believes that during the pandemic period the canon of the centers should not have been liquidated. "In a pandemic, without people, without tourists, in a crisis like never before", for that reason the 2020 canon is presented in the courts.
"We have the canon of all the City Councils paid per month, which never in history", Perdomo clarified the doubts about the possible millionaire debt denounced by the Canarian Coalition. The CEO alludes to the management of the centers when the nationalist group was in power, "During the greatest period of tourist boom on this island, the company had a debt of ten million euros and we have left it at four", he reveals. For the four million euros of debt that remain to be liquidated, Perdomo estimates that at this rate in a year it will be "finished".
According to Perdomo's version, as a result of the lawsuit filed for the collection of the canon by the Tax Network, the court has provisionally paralyzed the collection procedure. It was in this same procedure that he brought forward the administrative lawsuit for the expenses that he links to the diets of the former nationalist president Pedro San Ginés.
The current CEO of the Centers for Art, Culture and Tourism goes one step further and denounces that the one who put the Centers in losses for the first time was Pedro San Ginés himself, when he held the position of councilor. "In 2006 he took the company to 600,000 euros in losses for the first time, in 2007 to two and a half million euros... When people kept coming", Perdomo points out.
To conclude, Perdomo takes stock and boasts of the improvement in the management of the centers: "When we took them they were destroyed". The CEO points to an expense of one million euros per year for the rehabilitation of these spaces. The changes in the buses or the improvement of the facilities are some of the places where the money goes. "We are up to date with the City Councils, that we advance the money, talk to the suppliers on the street who charge after twenty-odd days, which has never happened in life".