According to the Prosecutor’s Office, Castillo appropriated at various times 11,222 euros corresponding to seizures from a Court of First Instance that had to enter his ex-wife’s account; 124,508 euros hidden in an accounting account; 9,219 in cash vouchers in the name of the accused and 354 euros to pay personal taxes. Their functions were to direct, coordinate, supervise, control and execute the tasks of accounting of notes, as well as the presentation of the accounts of the public company, reports and audits. In addition, another job consisted of receiving and accounting for the cash that the entity entered. The vast majority of these funds came from tickets paid at the box office by the public who accessed the fairgrounds. But there was no one to control the now investigated. The position of head of the Administration and Accounting Service was held by the accused for almost 11 years, between September 2005 and June 2016.
The Public Ministry considers that the defendant had to deduct 510.35 euros from his monthly payroll until reaching the amount of 16,303.20 euros, by court order and that amount had to be deposited in an account of his ex-wife. That was the procedure that was followed with the rest of the employees of that public company of the Cabildo on whom liens fell. But, according to the prosecutor, the former head of Administration made 15 deposits of 510.35 euros directly from the Recinto Ferial account to that of the ex-wife, for an amount of 7,655 euros.
Of that amount, the defendant returned 4,593 euros from his own account to the Fairgrounds, thanks to nine income. To hide the more than 3,000 euros that he still owed to the insular public company, the person involved, in a “mendacious” way, according to the Prosecutor’s Office, made an accounting entry for the aforementioned income figure, but by means of a check whose expiration was set for the April 30 of the following year. That check never existed nor did the Cabildo society recover 3,062 euros.
At another time, the same Court sent a letter in which it notified the company Recinto Ferial of a procedure for the execution of a sentence against Ignacio Castillo so that he would deduct 510 euros each month until he reached a debt of 9,000 euros. And, as in the previous case, this amount had to go to his ex-wife’s account. However, the investigated made 16 deposits of 510 euros directly from the account of the island society to that of his ex-partner for 8,160 euros. And, to cover his debt with the public entity, he allegedly registered two fictitious entries in Recinto Ferial’s accounting, one for 6,120 and another for 2,040 euros, with which he pretended that he had returned the amounts that he diverted to his ex-wife’s account.
Between September 22, 2005 and June 17, 2016, the defendant allegedly seized another 124,508 euros. So that it would not be noticed, he allegedly hid the different amounts in an accounting account that pretended to be from the Treasury, but which is not included in any accounting standard. A) Yes, 118,420 euros were recorded as promissory notes pending collection and 6,088 as “15 unjustified vouchers”, which, in reality, did not exist. On the 9,219 euros, the defendant seized the money for personal use and left a note of it through 73 vouchers that made reference to the outflow of money, but that he never justified or re-entered the account of the island company.
Again he commissioned a subordinate to pay at the Santa Cruz Town Hall personal taxes with public money. He allocated 354 euros to pay the taxes on the mechanical traction of a quad and a car and the IBI, as well as the home and garage of the accused, according to the Public Ministry.
