The Works Council of the Art, Culture and Tourism Centers of the Cabildo has announced that it will take the former councilor Echedey Eugenio to court "both for insults and slander and for a possible crime of embezzlement", related to what happened with the Christmas baskets that were bought in 2017 and that were not delivered to the workers.
The representatives of the staff have made it public in a statement in which they respond to the statements made last Friday on Radio Lanzarote by Eugenio, who stated that the Works Council has no credibility, that it "lies" and that he "has not seen the Christmas baskets, nor the invoices" and that these "were neither bought nor given".
"We reaffirm ourselves in the press release that we sent in its day", says the Committee, which insists that many of the products in those baskets ended up "thrown in the trash". The invoice that the former councilor claims not to have seen, but which is in the accounting of the Centers, reflects an amount of 14,784 euros for 320 units of various Christmas products, such as nougat, shortbread, sugared almonds, almogrote, two types of cheese, two bottles of wine and another of rum, in addition to the wicker baskets.
"The only thing he is right about is that they were not delivered"
"The only thing Echedey Eugenio is right about is that those baskets were not delivered", respond from the Works Council, which has decided to take legal action.
As La Voz de Lanzarote published a few weeks ago, the purchase of these baskets was carried out from the Centers in 2017, when the Cabildo and the CACT themselves had been without delivering them for years. Later, once acquired, sources from the company explain that the then CEO, José Juan Lorenzo, received an order not to distribute them "so as not to create a comparative grievance with the rest of the Cabildo workers", so they ended up in a warehouse.
There, according to what the Works Council had already denounced, some products such as cheese expired and "the cleaning staff of the Farmer's Monument were in charge of throwing it away". For its part, the company confirms that those baskets ended up dismantled and that all the products that had expired ended up in the trash, including 320 pieces of soft cheese and as many semi-hard cheese, worth almost 3,000 euros.