The deputy secretary of the PSOE of Lanzarote and spokesperson for the Socialist Group in the Cabildo, Ariagona González, has accused Oswaldo Betancort of "having launched a fraudulent strategy to get the Supreme Court to dismiss the actions filed by INALSA and the Consortium against Pedro San Ginés and Ignacio Calatayud for the irregular collection of two million euros from which the lawyer, a close friend of San Ginés, benefited, and has warned that his maneuvers will reach the courts."
González explained that "one of the fundamental elements for the Supreme Court to dismiss the procedure has been a report submitted to the court in which INALSA and the Consortium tacitly withdrew from the criminal actions."
"This is a report prepared by the deputy director of the Legal Advice of the Cabildo that completely contradicts the conclusions of the previous reports that gave rise to the actions, the argumentation sustained by the legal direction of the procedures and what was declared by witnesses of such solvency and credibility as the magistrate and recognized specialist in bankruptcy procedures Juan José Cobo Plana."
In the opinion of the Socialist Party, the commission of this report to the deputy director of the Legal Advice "is of special gravity, since she was proposed as a defense witness, by Calatayud, during the instruction of the procedure, as denounced by the Socialist Party upon learning of the existence of said report, considering it a maneuver by Oswaldo Betancort to withdraw from the procedure in a covert manner."
"In order for this strategy to take effect, just four days after taking office, Oswaldo Betancort instructed the lawyer of INALSA and the Consortium to refrain from submitting any writing in the judicial proceedings of both public entities against his party colleague and former president, without having given explanations to date of this arbitrary action," they add.
For the socialists, "this procedure is of extraordinary gravity, since the actions against Pedro San Ginés and Ignacio Calatayud for the looting of INALSA respond to a report by the manager of the Consortium and INALSA and a powerful and decisive legal report that recommended filing the corresponding judicial procedures, a decision that was assumed and endorsed by the Assembly of the Consortium and the Board of Directors of INALSA."
However, "all the decisions of Oswaldo Betancort have been adopted irregularly, without formalizing any file and without having legal reports that support his arbitrary decisions executed, in addition, supplanting the governing bodies of the Consortium and INALSA and contravening previous agreements of the same, so they will have the appropriate judicial response," concluded the socialist spokesperson.