INSOLVENCY 36/2012 · ASSET PROTECTION · ADMINISTRATOR SUPERVISION

What did judicial supervision do when the principal asset needed protection before the outcome became irreversible?

This page does not claim that the judge was the day-to-day manager of the hotel or that every Administrator omission is attributable to the Judge. It reconstructs a narrower question: when a risk reached the Administrator or Court, what reporting/control duty or power existed, what verifiable response followed, and what happened next.

The correct institutional relationship

Insolvency estate → Administrator conservation duty → judicial supervision → specific information where needed → liquidation decisions → final accounting and traceability.

Current insolvency legislation states that the Insolvency Administration is subject to supervision by the insolvency judge and allows the judge to require specific information on matters connected with the case. It also provides for removal for just cause and, in the current wording, serious failures of diligence, impartiality or independence. Historical events must be judged under the law in force at each date; the current provisions are used only to describe the institutional supervision architecture.

Seven nuclei that should be read together

1 · June–September 2018

Funded exit, material control of the hotel, need to preserve and quantify. Daniel Irigoyen is a contemporaneous professional source for testing what was explained, requested and reflected in the court file.

2 · Debt / threshold

Recognised debt, interest, improvement threshold and amount ultimately absorbed are distinct categories. The control question is which act connects each one.

3 · €400,000 / non-validation

The 2019 ruling creates a later reconstruction problem: ownership, possession, money, inventory, accounting and any new title or restitution.

4 · Physical and operating condition

If alteration, blocked access or deterioration is alleged and expert/judicial inspection is refused, the supervisory question is what neutral equivalent replaced that check.

5 · Administrator supervision

What he knew, what he reported, what the Court required, and what alternative control existed when removal or protective measures did not succeed.

6 · 2021 competition

ONA/third-party bidder are assessed through material equality: access, information, perimeter, time, solvency, deposits and comparability of heterogeneous consideration.

7 · 2022+ implementation

Adjudication, court-office acts, deed, cancellation of charges, Registry, post-deed communication and final accounts should form a single reproducible chain.

Judicial Supervision Ledger

EventKnowledgeRelevant power/dutyResponse to identifyConsequence
7–26 June 2018Material control / funded exit / disputesInformation, conservation, assistance, estate-perimeter definitionFilings, transfers, requests, suspension and follow-upPossession/access and later operation
July–September 2018Patrimonial risk and disputed figureRequire information from Administrator / decide issues submittedTreatment of conservation and quantification28/11/2018 operation
24/10/2019Non-validationImplementation/follow-up of effects of the court's own rulingRestitution, rectification, reserve or new titlePerimeter used in 2021
2020–24/02/2021Physical condition, access, works, estateAdministrator control / evidential checksExpert report, inspection or neutral equivalentTender
May 2021Offers and competitive conditionsDirection of liquidation processRules, information, access, comparabilityAdjudication
Jan–Feb 2022Object, beneficiary, amount, finalityDecision + procedural implementationOrder, complement, testimony, deed and chargesExternal registry effects
2025Accumulated history of AdministratorSupervision and removal under applicable frameworkWhat facts were checked and what alternative control remainedAdministrator continued

The double perimeter question

Was what belonged to the estate protected sufficiently?

LPB and its property/rights were inside the insolvency. Preservation and value of the productive/hotel unit could be affected by access, works, security, income, possession and loss of competitive value.

Did limited insolvency authority project too far?

Matkator and other owners, third-party rights and certain operating positions were not automatically absorbed. An act originating in the insolvency could have material effects outside the estate without creating title over those assets.

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What this file does not establish

It does not establish judicial prevaricación, corruption, collusion or disciplinary responsibility. Nor does it assert that missing supervisory records do not exist. Its function is to require verifiable institutional reconciliation: if the act exists, identify it; if no action was legally required, explain why; if the risk belonged elsewhere, classify and route it correctly.

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