It is legal. They left it hanging and did not attend the approval of the accounts last June. The 2025 annual accounts of the Canary Islands Foundation Ports of Las Palmas, accessed by Canarymaritime through transparency mechanisms, reveal management under extreme suspicion. The entity’s financial statements are now under scrutiny from the General Intervention of the State Administration (IGAE) after an intricate and complex web of proxy voting arrangements, concealed or untimely resignations, and a severe erosion of public funds was uncovered. The president of the Port Authority of Las Palmas, Beatriz Calzada, personally signed the financial balance sheet under delegated authority on behalf of historic giants of the port, all amid unpaid dues and maneuvers involving the departure of trustees that remained hidden for months in official records. Use of the Visa credit card contracted with Bankinter totaled €965.75 as of December 31, 2025 (€266.60 in the previous financial year to pay for notices in the Official State Gazette, and zero euros in 2024)—in other words, a port open to all.
maneuver involving delegated support
Among the delegated representations Calzada used to support and validate approval of this disputed 2025 financial year, two major signatures stand out: Hamilton & Co. (Transcoma) and Astican (Laskaridis). This institutional engineering enabled the presidency to secure 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, staff hiring and contract awards. Among the trustees is a company carrying outstanding financial commitments and unpaid dues to the foundation itself worth €25,000. That Transcoma representative is the same person Calzada selected to find a manager to dismantle the entity following the IGAE’s warnings.
Resignations left frozen in a drawer
The behind-the-scenes workings of the corporate governance structure also reflect an evident rift with the island’s private healthcare sector. On October 21, 2024, Jorge Petit Suárez, representing the Nuestra Señora del Perpetuo Socorro Emergency Clinic of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, formally submitted his written resignation from the board of trustees. In the same document, Petit categorically demanded that the entity no longer issue any invoice or charge to the clinic, effective from January 2025.
Despite this formal resignation, notified in autumn 2024, the foundation’s leadership allegedly kept the clinic listed for more than six months to bolster its quorum. 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 proportions months later, when the same clinic and Petit himself were suddenly and unexpectedly re-entered into the governing body on March 6, 2026.
Reorganization of the board of trustees
This revolving door of arrivals and departures from the board of trustees during 2025 served to alter representation of the economic fabric of La Luz Port. On July 30, 2025, the admission 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), under the leadership of Cosme García Falcón, joined the board.
Key sponsors pull out
Such administrative turmoil concealed a direct financial hole in the ordinary accounts. The withdrawal of a strategic commercial partner left a critical shortfall in 2025 revenue. An unexpected cut in the contribution from one of its key sponsors created a €25,000 hole in the private-sector fundraising line, as revealed by the implementation data for the Action Plan. The institution had projected €150,000 in income from promotions, sponsorships and private collaborations. The sponsor’s departure reduced final revenue to just €125,000—a 17% collapse from the initial forecast that wiped out the entity’s non-subsidized funding stream.
Cost overruns and IGAE scrutiny
The sponsorship shortfall ultimately blew apart an already unbalanced labor budget. The payment of a completely opaque severance package not included in the annual plan sent personnel costs soaring from the projected €81,908 to €199,223 actually spent. Only rental income prevented the financial year from entering technical bankruptcy. Increased rents at the port generated €318,650, compared with the €289,048 projected, providing an additional lifeline of €29,602. This commercial injection will not halt the IGAE’s examination of a foundation battered by the loss of sponsors, cost overruns from executive dismissals and the opaque use of delegated signatures to keep the paperwork in order.
The article Calzada signed the Puerto Las Palmas Foundation’s accounts on behalf of Hamilton and Astican amid unpaid dues and Petit’s resignation was first published on canarymaritime.com.
