Angel Bustos is a controversial businessman with interests in the tourism and nautical sector of Formentera. Recently, he has been in the news, as La Voz de Ibiza has advanced, for leading the voice of the current awardees of the kiosks to demand a reduction of the fee they offered to the Consell de Formentera in the contest under suspicion and for the complaint filed by the Prosecutor of Ibiza for the squatting of the west dock of La Savina during a summer and for which he faces prison sentences of 12 years. The president of Compromís, Javier Serra, has been a partner of Bustos in Marina de Formentera, a company in which he owned 22.4% of the shares at the time of joining the Consell de Formentera. For this reason, Serra was inhibited in the meetings of government and in the plenary sessions in which matters related to the contest under suspicion of the beach services were treated. Serra has claimed to have divested himself of the shares. He would have done so, in any case, after having breached the Law of Incompatibilities during the time he was second vice president of the Consell de Formentera.
Chiringuitos under suspicion
Bustos was awarded the beach bars of lots 19 and 24, both on the beach des Pujols. He did it through the companies Apartamentos Castaví, SA and Paraíso de los Pinos SA, part of the family business conglomerate of Ángel Bustos Martínez. Both companies benefited from the changes in the criteria established by the Contracting Committee with respect to the published bases and the open envelopes, since, otherwise, they would not have been the best rated.
Checkmate
The best-scored kiosks achieved through Bustos’ lawyer, Francisco Javier Cisneros de Cid, that the lawyer who drafted the Human Resources report with which President Cordoba wanted to declare the tender void was recused. And also that Cordoba withdrew from the tender, which paved the way for Sa Unió to award the lots to those with the best scores by the Contracting Committee despite the obvious irregularities revealed by La Voz de Ibiza. In addition to its links with Bustos, Cisneros is known in Ibiza for his involvement in Club Básico 12 Millas, SL, the company whose appeal knocked down the concession for projects to the Club Náutico de Ibiza and which is one of the pieces of the ports case for which the former mayor of Ibiza, Rafa Ruiz, the former president of the Port Authority, Joan Guall, and the president of the Club Náutico de Ibiza, Juan Marí, are charged.
Nautical entrepreneur
As CEO of Marina de Formentera SA, Ángel Bustos was acquitted after a plea bargain with the Public Prosecutor’s Office because the statute of limitations had expired in the trial of the Mar Blau case, despite the fact that it had been proven that he obtained a concession in the port of La Savina thanks to the privileged information he obtained from officials of the Port Authority of the Balearic Islands.
Marina de Formentera was able to win the tender of the Savina thanks to prior knowledge that his company needed to increase capital to comply with the bases. As published then Gaceta Nautica, the ruling of the case mar blau states that Bustos “was in possession of such information” when the bases of the competition had not even been published. In fact, the businessman admitted it in a statement made before a court of first instance.
