The owners of the Marina Rubicón marina paid 1.8 million euros to the businessman from Gran Canaria, Juan Padrón Marrero, in exchange for him withdrawing all the lawsuits he had filed against the construction of the port's commercial area.
The economic agreement was reflected in a document signed in June 2003 between Juan Francisco Rosa and Jesús Manuel Escribano, on behalf of Marina Rubicón, and Juan Padrón, representing Consulting Turístico Canario, which was building a shopping center on a plot of the Castillo del Águila partial plan, and who saw how his beachfront plot ceased to be so due to the construction of the port and its commercial area.
Thanks to the agreement, the businessman from Gran Canaria withdrew from five contentious proceedings that he had filed against that commercial area, plus one criminal proceeding for disobedience, since he had managed to stop the works but found that they continued. In addition, he promised to submit writings to the competent administrations to render his complaints ineffective, as well as not to promote any proceedings against the works in the future. If he did so, he would have to return the amount collected plus three million euros in compensation.
Three years paying
To compensate Padrón "for the affectation of commercial use rights", according to the agreement, the promoters of Marina Rubicón committed to pay 36 monthly installments of 50,000 euros each, which began to be paid in January 2004 and ended in December 2006.
The agreement was signed in June 2003, after the Court ordered the stoppage of the commercial surface works in February of that year, and in April it was ordered to stop all the works (order that was later restricted again to the commercial area). The port obtained the municipal license once the works had begun, and when the agreement was signed, the Court still did not allow the resumption of the commercial area works, which, according to the promoters, was causing them "serious commercial and financial disruptions", since it prevented them from fulfilling the commitments made with third parties.
The businessman from Gran Canaria and his lawyer Albero Florido testified as witnesses last November in the proceedings that are being followed in Court number 2 of Arrecife, which investigates possible criminal offenses in the granting of urban planning licenses in Playa Blanca, and which has focused part of its investigation on this port in recent months.
Padrón stated that "he preferred to accept the money they offered him rather than remain with the uncertainty of the proceedings" and pointed out that he estimated the losses of his shopping center at six million. He said he felt deceived by the construction of his shopping center. The businessman owned a plot on the beachfront and, however, the port and a large commercial area were built in front of his plot.
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