The Domecqs renovate the Miami apartments in Mogán

A company based on port land in Las Palmas has begun to renovate the facilities of its apartments in Puerto Rico, Mogán, in an effort to take advantage of the Nordic and German markets. It is Petrologis Canarias, one of the two ship fuel supply companies (bunkering) that the former PP minister Arias Cañete presided over until his return to active politics in 2012 and currently chaired by Cristina Domecq Ybarra, the largest shareholder of Petrologis would be Havorad BV, (44%). The other relevant partner is Civisol (22%), chaired by another brother-in-law of Cañete, Rafael Domecq Solís, and in which Cristina and Matilde Domecq, nieces of the former minister, are directors. 34% of Petrologis belongs to “other shareholders”, according to its accounts.

The manager of Petrologis Canarias, Javier Cornago Protomartir, has confirmed that it is about launching a mechanism to renovate the facility created in the 80s. A sign of the company's commitment to the fuel supply business in the port. from Las Palmas its main business. The Dutch company headed by Miguel Domecq Solís would control 45% of the shares of the company Petrolína Dúcar and 48% of Petrologis. Arias-Cañete has been president of both companies, with the direct support of Havorad, between 2005 and 2011 and a partner until October 2014. The former Minister of Agriculture has owned 1,2% of Dúcar and 2,5% of Petrologis Canary Islands during this period. The largest shareholding in both companies belongs to the Arias-Cañete political family.

The same thing happens in Petrolína Dúcar. To the 45% controlled by the brother-in-law of the former European commissioner from Holland (Havorad) is added another 12,7% that he personally owns, plus 10,8% of Civisol (owned by the maternal family); and 5,19% of Arias Domecq, a firm that the brother-in-law shared with the former Minister of Agriculture. In sum, the Arias-Cañete political family controls 73% of Petrolína Dúcar. In 2014 Arias Cañete said in the examination before the European Parliament that neither he nor his family have any connection with the oil companies Dúcar and Petrologis Canarias. Cañete was forced to sell 2,5% of the capital in both companies that he owned. Cañete says that he does not know if Petrologis signed a public contract: "If a salesperson did what he should not have done, it was wrong." That same 2014 it was learned that Petrologis supplied fuel to the Cabildo of Gran Canaria and he previously said that his company did not sell services to the administration. He said he knew nothing about that procedure.