Adriana Ugarte has had to face a difficult moment recently, after the death of her maternal grandfather, Antonio Pardal, at 85 years of age. The Andalusian businessman died on August 19 in the Seville municipality of Alcalá de Guadaira.
According to what has been learned thanks to the first information that has come out of the matter, the grandfather of the interpreter of El tiempo entre Costuras was cremated this past Sunday at the El Recuerdo funeral home, in the municipality of Dos Hermanas, in Seville.
At the moment, the causes of death of one of the key witnesses in the Mercasevilla case are unknown. The Andalusian businessman was born in 1938 in Écija. As revealed by the newspaper Diario de Sevilla, the beginnings of Adriana Ugarte’s grandfather in the world of work were in the fruit shop of one of her uncles in Madrid. After selling toilets, he created a holding company with 500 workers, which came to invoice 700 million euros. “He also boasted of having built 4,000 industrial buildings,” said the aforementioned medium.
But his fame and popularity increased when he became one of the key witnesses in the Mercasevilla case. According to the aforementioned media, the businessman had to testify in the trial related to the sale of land in this case. During the trial, he declared that the former directors of the Mercado, Fernando Mellet and Daniel Ponce, and the then manager of Urban Planning, Manuel Marchena, offered him different concessions and awards in exchange for him ceding the rights to various plots.
The businessman then stressed that he had previously been informed that everything was supported by the then mayor of Seville, Alfredo Sánchez Monteseirín. Likewise, Pardal pointed out that the mayor of the Andalusian capital told him on one occasion that “he would not be harmed by his departure from the central market.” The trial ended with the acquittal of all the defendants.
But his name returned to the center of the media focus, when his involvement in the Punic plot, related to Francisco Granados, came to light. According to the Vanitatis media, Adriana Ugarte’s grandfather “would have honored Francisco Granados and his associates with various gifts of value” and “would have provided the services of several prostitutes to the mayor accused in La Púnica.”
Antonio Pardal leaves a widow, children, sister, grandchildren and great-grandchildren. One of his daughters is Yolanda Pardal, mother of Adriana Ugarte, a lawyer by trade, writer and owner of an antiques shop on Belén street in Madrid, according to the Diario de Sevilla.
