They were not submitted for approval at the meeting last June. The 2025 annual accounts of the Canary Islands Las Palmas Ports Foundation, accessed by Canarymaritime through transparency mechanisms, reveal management under extreme suspicion. The entity’s financial statements are now under scrutiny from the General State Administration Intervention Office (IGAE) after an accounting and complex web of delegated voting powers, concealed resignations or resignations not carried out on time, and a severe depletion of public funds came to light. The president of the Las Palmas Port Authority, Beatriz Calzada, personally signed the financial balance sheet under delegated authority on behalf of historic giants of the port complex, all against a backdrop clouded by unpaid fees and maneuvers involving the departure of trustees that remained hidden from official records for months. Use of the Visa credit card contracted with Bankinter stood at €965.75 as of December 31, 2025 (€266.60 in the previous financial year to pay advertisements in the Official State Gazette, and zero euros in 2024)—in other words, a port open to everyone.
Manoeuvre with delegated support
Among the delegated representatives Calzada used to support and validate approval of this disputed 2025 financial year, two heavyweight signatures stand out: Hamilton & Cía (Transcoma) and Astican (Laskaridis). This institutional engineering enabled the presidency to assemble these formal endorsements to whitewash the entity’s accounting management before auditors, despite the serious underlying irregularity that the IGAE had warned about days before the annual accounts were approved, on June 22, 2026.
On or around June 17, it became known that Puertos del Estado had demanded the dissolution of the Las Palmas Ports Foundation after an internal audit detected major irregularities in its financial management, personnel hiring and contract awards. Among the trustees is a company carrying unmet financial commitments and €25,000 in unpaid fees owed to the foundation itself. That Transcoma representative is the same person Calzada selected to find a manager to dismantle the entity following the IGAE’s warnings.
Resignations frozen in a drawer
The corporate-governance backstory also reflects an evident rupture with the island’s private healthcare sector. On October 21, 2024, Jorge Petit Suárez, representing the Clínica de Urgencia Nuestra Señora del Perpetuo Socorro de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, formally submitted his written resignation from the board of trustees. In that same document, Petit categorically demanded that no further invoice or fee be charged to the entity from January 2025 onward.
Despite this official withdrawal, formally notified in autumn 2024, the foundation’s leadership allegedly kept the clinic listed for more than six months to make its quorum appear stronger. Official documents now closing in on the institution show that the effective removal of the trustee and his representative, Jorge Petit Suárez, was concealed until July 30, 2025. The bureaucratic farce reached extraordinary levels months later, when the same clinic and Petit himself suddenly and unexpectedly rejoined the governing body on March 6, 2026.
Reorganization of the board of trustees
This carousel of arrivals and departures from the board during 2025 served to alter representation of the economic fabric of the Port of La Luz. On July 30, 2025, the incorporation of Oneport Canarias (Federation of Logistics Operators and Port Services), led by José Mayor Ramírez, was validated. Later, on November 4, 2025, the Corporación de Prácticos del Puerto de La Luz y de Las Palmas SCP, represented by Jonathan García Herrera, and the Gran Canaria Economic Promotion Society (SPEGC), headed by Cosme García Falcón, joined the board.
Departure of key sponsors
Such administrative turbulence concealed a direct hole in the ordinary accounts. The withdrawal of a strategic business partner left a critical shortfall in 2025 revenue. An unforeseen cut in the contribution from one of its key sponsors created a €25,000 gap in private-resource fundraising, as revealed by the implementation data for the Action Plan. The institution had projected €150,000 in income from promotions, sponsorships and private partnerships. The sponsor’s departure reduced final receipts to just €125,000—a 17% collapse from the initial forecast that wiped out the entity’s unsubsidized funding channel.
Cost overruns and the IGAE spotlight
The sponsorship shortfall ultimately blew apart an already unbalanced personnel budget. The payment of a completely opaque severance package not included in the annual plan drove personnel spending from the €81,908 budgeted to a staggering €199,223 actually spent. Only property income prevented the financial year from entering technical insolvency. Increased rents at the port complex generated €318,650, compared with the €289,048 projected, providing an additional €29,602 lifeline. This commercial injection will not halt the IGAE’s examination of a foundation battered by the flight of sponsors, cost overruns from executive dismissals and the opaque use of delegated signatures to keep the paperwork in order.
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