The scandal of the illegal wells found on a farm of the Alba family, the so-called Aljóbar, in the Sevillian town of Aznalcázar, has been partially settled by Eugenia Martínez de Irujo with the statement from a few days ago, in which she assured that the property in which she was presented as the owner and responsible for the illegal water extractions, is not hers, but rather belongs to a society in which the presidency rotates and from time to time time corresponds to her, however, oblivious to the management of those lands.
But sources close to Duchess Cayetana’s children reveal that discomfort persists among some of them, due to the true reasons that led to the complaint. To begin with, they assure that these aquifers do not come from Doñana, as is the case with the complaint against Miguel Baez, El Litri, accused of the same alleged crime, in the case of the bullfighter, of irrigating 360 hectares of an olive grove with water from the Coto.
Part of the Alba family blames the origin of the complaint on Luis Martinez of Irujo and Hohenlohe, son of Alfonso Martínez de Irujo (above), Duke of Hijar, second of Cayetana’s offspring and truly responsible for the management of the estate in question. Below, Luis Martínez de Irujo with his cousin, Fernando Fitz-James.
35 years at the service of the Alba
Luis Martínez de Irujo fired the manager who had been in charge of the lands for 35 years. He did it, as this digital has been able to gather, “in an arbitrary and even unfair way,” according to family sources. This worker, after having lost his job without solid cause, considers, always according to the same sources, that the owners for whom he worked for three and a half decades, acted with “arrogance.” They tell us that he was the instigator of the complaint, with the consequences that now affect the rest of the family. Cayetano, Eugenia and Fernando are simple minority shareholders of Aljóbar, without any connection with the management, but their name may continue to appear in the judicial summary, and everything indicates that they are not at all comfortable when they are accused of their nephew’s clumsiness. Luis Martínez de Irujo y Hohenlohe has been married for seven years to Adriana Marín Huarte, great-niece of Felipe Huarte, a Navarrese businessman kidnapped by ETA on January 16, 1973.