The accused of falsification in public document and embezzlement as head of administration of the Tenerife Fairgrounds, Ignacio C., has denied this Monday the charges, for which the Prosecutor’s Office asks for eight years in prison, as well as the absolute disqualification from exercising public functions for 20 years. The Prosecutor’s Office also requests the special disqualification to exercise passive suffrage for the time of the sentence, and the payment of the costs. The trial, with a jury, begins after in 2016 the then manager of the Fairgrounds, Ignacio Pintado, filed a complaint because there was an accounting hole of at least 124,000 euros.
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Pintado, who has died, was dismissed by the then president of the Cabildo de Tenerife, Carlos Alonso (Canary Islands Coalition), and after the complaint, the now accused, who, according to what he said in the trial, learned from the press of the complaint, appeared in the Prosecutor’s Office to collaborate.
Now the Prosecutor’s Office accuses him of seizing 11,222 euros corresponding to judicial seizures as well as 124,508 euros that were in an account that was not included in the accounting regulations, of 9,219 euros in vouchers, and 354 euros for the payment of personal taxes. In this way, the accounting hole would amount to 145,304 euros.
In the trial, the Cabildo de Tenerife and the Podemos group in the island corporation act as private prosecutors.
During his statement, the defendant, who worked for 27 years for the Cabildo de Tenerife, where he retired on June 17, 2016, has assured that three months after starting the functions of head of administration, he said that it was impossible and not recommended. that the same person kept accounting and treasury, but was ignored, “I suppose to save wages.”
Regarding the accusation of a higher amount, 124,508 euros hidden in another account, he explained that it was about uncollectible promissory notes and that the then manager had decided that they would not appear in losses because that could be a cause for the dissolution of the Recinto Ferial company. high losses.
Faced with questions from the Prosecutor’s Office and accusations of why these promissory notes are not in the files, he has replied that “that is not possible. They were there. I did not file them”, something that the people responsible for accounting and treasury, respectively, should do. has said.
As for the 9,219 euros of cash vouchers that, according to the prosecution, he took out in his name, he has assured that the money was returned and that if he wanted to keep the money it would be absurd to do so with his name.
These vouchers are 73 movements and the defendant has said that it is money that he replaced in cash and the voucher was placed in another place, so that it was not part of the treasury.
Regarding the 354 euros to pay personal taxes, he has indicated that he was on vacation when he realized that he had to pay them and therefore asked the head of the treasury to pay them with funds from the Fairgrounds, and has affirmed that he replaced the money.
Of the 11,222 euros corresponding to judicial seizures, he has indicated that he reached an agreement with the manager not to inform the company that made the payroll that they should make withholdings to pay them, and that the money to pay them would leave the Precinct and then he returned it.
He has asserted that after retirement, people linked to the company entered the office and that he does not know if the vouchers have been tampered with, and has also stressed that both the financial auditors and the manager were aware of the account with uncollectible promissory notes.
When he retired, the Tenerife Council Human Resources informed him that he could not re-enter the office, the key of which was changed, and he reiterated that it was not his responsibility to file the promissory notes, “which were there when I left.”
