The Court of Instruction number 4 of Arrecife accepted on October 13 that Alternativa Ciudadana appear as a popular accusation in the proceedings investigating the management that led the public company Inalsa to ruin and its privatization. This case arises from the complaint filed with the Prosecutor's Office by Alternativa Ciudadana in 2013, "after challenging on three occasions the decisions taken to privatize the company, which were not taken into account", the party recalls. The Court has now ordered several proceedings to investigate different stages of Inalsa's management.
Last May, the Prosecutor's Office asked the Court to open a criminal procedure to investigate the public water company Inalsa, considering that "it appears, indicatively, the possible existence of a corporate crime, prevarication or embezzlement of public funds" in the administration of Inalsa.
The Court has now requested several investigation proceedings covering several stages of Inalsa's management and asks the Mercantile Registry for all the company's accounts since 2006, Alternativa explains in its statement. Some of these proceedings focus on the privatization process of Inalsa and "on the alleged illegality of the transfer of Inalsa's debt to the Water Consortium to facilitate that privatization and the granting of the integral water cycle to the company Canal de Isabel II", explains the formation. Inalsa's debts were paid with the money from the tender with which the management of the water was privatized, something that the comptroller of the Consortium warned in its day was "null and void" and that AC also denounced.
"This investigation confirms our complaints"
For Alternativa Ciudadana 25 de mayo, "the beginning of this investigation confirms the complaints that we have made for years about corruption in Inalsa in its different stages". The party hopes that "the investigation will serve for Justice to point out the true culprits of the company's ruin, who, for the moment, have not had to face with their assets the mismanagement for which they are responsible, mainly the PSOE, PIL and Coalición Canaria".
In addition, AC considers that "the impulse of this investigation clearly reveals that the complaints made for years by Alternativa Ciudadana since its birth had a solid basis and that they were not supported by the rest of the parties because they were accomplices of the situation". Alternativa points out that "despite everything, it will continue fighting for the ownership and public management of water and continues to consider that the privatization of Inalsa is one of the worst decisions that the Cabildo has taken against the public interest of all the citizens of the Island".
On the other hand, AC points out, "the proceedings requested now by the judge reinforce the position that the transfer of Inalsa's debt to the Consortium was done irregularly and that the bankruptcy process of this company should never have ended without responsibilities being cleared and with a tender to privatize the water".
