Vecinos Unidos Canarios and the Confederación Social y Autónoma Canaria (Coveinca) have taken the privatization of Inalsa to the Prosecutor's Office in the face of the "numerous irregularities detected" during the process. These groups have requested the Prosecutor's Office to carry out the "appropriate investigations", taking into account that "water is such an essential asset for an island like Lanzarote".
The document was delivered this Friday morning to the Prosecutor's Office by José Díaz, island president of Coveinca. Both groups consider that in the privatization process article 43 of the Island Hydrological Plan, the Island Territorial Planning Plan (PIOT), the Law of the Autonomous Community of the Canary Islands on Waters and the resolution of the Parliament of the Canary Islands of July 13, 2000 were violated.
In addition, they recall that the public tender "was declared void" and it was decided to go to a negotiated procedure with publicity. "We, in view of the numerous irregularities observed, urged the accumulated secretary of the Consortium to declare the assembly null and void because the attendees were not legitimized to make such a decision", they indicate.
The document also includes an account of the historical background of Inalsa, as well as the judicial interventions it has suffered. In this sense, they emphasize that the Confederación General del Trabajo already denounced in 2001 "a first attempt to privatize the Janubio plant" and assure that the "Unión" case "uncovered the second attempt".
Thus, they recall that in the summary of this case, the Viability Plan presented by PIL and PSOE in 2008 appears as "the beginning of the privatization of Inalsa". In the recordings made by the UCO of the Civil Guard it is recorded that "Dimas Martín wanted to privatize 30 percent of Inalsa". In June 2009, after the outbreak of operation "Unión", the creditors' meeting was held.
The embargo on the former directors, "more than enough guarantee"
"Due to the state of Inalsa's accounts, the bankruptcy judges decided to go to the Mercantile Court Number 1 of Las Palmas, which ordered the preventive seizure of assets worth 1,914,730 euros from 16 of the former directors of Inalsa", they recall. In addition, they assure that Vecinos Unidos and Coveinca already warned the president in January 2013 that "the almost two million euros in properties of these managers was a guarantee more than sufficient to satisfy the creditor companies, while Inalsa was liquidated and the Consortium renegotiated the debt".
Likewise, in their document presented to the Prosecutor's Office they also expose the "contradictory reports of the auditors", both that of the former auditor of the Insular Water Consortium, who raised objections to the payment formula of the debt to Inalsa's creditors, and that of the auditor of Tías, who endorses that of the former auditor, and the one commissioned by the Consortium to Pedro Lasso Purriños, who defends the Consortium's proposal.
For these two groups, the intention is to "save the 16 former directors of Inalsa at the time of its ruin, with PIL-CC and PSOE, from the seizure of their assets".
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