Senator Pedro San Ginés (Canarian Coalition) offered a press conference this Friday in which he assessed the dismissal of one of the cases that the Supreme Court was investigating against him. Specifically, the case that analyzed the alleged irregular hiring of the lawyer Ignacio Calatayud in the public companies Inalsa and the Lanzarote Water Consortium, when San Ginés was president of the Cabildo of Lanzarote and also president of both entities.
The high court received the case that first the Court of Instruction number 2 of Arrecife, under the ownership of Jerónimo Alonso, was investigating against San Ginés for the alleged commission of the crimes of fraud against the administration, prevarication, influence peddling, misappropriation and professional disloyalty. After the request for recusal by San Ginés and Ignacio Calatayud, the case passed to the Court of Instruction number 4, of which Ricardo Fiestras is the owner.
After his appointment as senator for the Autonomous Community of the Canary Islands, at the initiative of the Canarian Coalition, the investigation was sent by the Court of Instruction to the Supreme Court. The high court concluded in the dismissal order that the investigating judge "does not clarify or analyze" in the reasoned exposition "that supposedly irregular hiring" and that "as it is written, it does not offer any principle of evidence, that reasonably supports in reality some facts."
According to San Ginés, the decision of the high court explains that "it is more than proven that there is no element that can support the existence of criminal acts attributed to me, as the former socialist president of the Cabildo of Lanzarote Dolores Corujo has been trying to make believe for years."
In addition, in a press release issued by the Canarian Coalition, San Ginés has attacked the first investigating judge Jerónimo Alonso, and has assured that the Supreme Court determines that the case's instruction process was "plagued with judicial abuses [...] until he was removed by the Provincial Court. While it is true, the Supreme Court's order to which La Voz has had access does not include these statements.
San Ginés continued indicating that this judicial case is "a persecution for reasons exclusively of a political nature, encouraged by leaders and public officials of the PSOE of Lanzarote."
In addition, he has accused the party in the opposition of "undermining the honorability and public image" of the current president of the Cabildo of Lanzarote, Oswaldo Betancort, in response to the press release sent by the socialists where they threaten to go to court for the alleged actions carried out by the Cabildo of Lanzarote to desist in the accusation of Inalsa and the Consortium in the case against San Ginés.
The former president of the Cabildo of Lanzarote has assured that "who should be very worried is Dolores Corujo because the order confirmed by the Supreme Court reveals the false accusation."
In this regard, Pedro San Ginés has explained that when the order indicates that a recent report "implies the implicit withdrawal of the action", what it really reveals is "that the legal services of the Consortium, once they have taken control of the case, have come to inform the court that Dolores Corujo hid from the assembly, the mayors and the Court legal reports, official minutes and budgets, all exculpatory, to incriminate me by resorting to external legal services."
During a public appearance held in Arrecife, San Ginés stressed that with its decision the Supreme Court "has made it very clear that it is not appropriate" to admit this judicial case against him, so the high court has decided to return it to the referring Court of Instruction so that, if it considers it, the investigation of the facts continues.
In this sense, the senator for the Autonomous Community of the Canary Islands has defended that the high court "evidences the little rigor of the accusation of alleged facts that, as it now sees, lack the adequate foundation to impute alleged crimes of fraud against the administration, prevarication, influence peddling, misappropriation and professional disloyalty."
The Supreme Court indicated in its order that "there is no prior legal assessment by the instructor" who sends the case to the Court "nor of indications of participation" of the person with immunity "in the reported facts."
San Ginés has recalled that this prior action is, as stated in the decision of the Supreme Court, "required in accordance with an interpretation of the rule adjusted to the canon that informs the constitutional system of rights and freedoms, which leads to excluding the opening of a criminal process for the investigation of facts of merely suspicious criminal relevance."
The senator for the Autonomous Community of the Canary Islands has also valued the fact that the Supreme Court has considered that the reasoned exposition "does not provide any element or principle of evidence" that can be considered a "reasonable guarantee with reality" of the alleged irregular facts.
In this sense, San Ginés has stressed that the Public Prosecutor's Office requested the dismissal of the case, since, according to the order, "the imputation contained in the reasoned exposition" of this judicial procedure "must be rejected", since "the facts contained in the factual account, as it is written, do not offer any element or principle of evidence that reasonably supports in reality some facts that are likely to be subsumed in a criminal provision" by the senator, "limiting the instructor to affirm about the existence of the complaints filed and investigations, without any objective support of the facts."
"Hence the rotundity with which the high court expresses itself," San Ginés stressed, "because it makes it absolutely clear that the admission of the case is not appropriate and that the only thing that proceeds in law is to agree to its dismissal with return to the instructing court to continue with the investigation of the facts in relation to the actions of other affected persons."
Hours after the press conference it was announced that the Supreme Court had dismissed a second case that investigated the alleged commission of the crime of false testimony and false accusation by the former president of the Cabildo of Lanzarote.
