Friday, March 29

García Castellón denies Monedero key information about the investigation he secretly carried out against him


After nine months of secret investigation into the alleged irregular financing of Podemos by Manuel García Castellón, the judge refuses to hand over the investigations into those under investigation – to whom he did not even grant that status – despite the fact that it was seen forced to close it by order of the Criminal Chamber of the National High Court last month.

Monedero denounces in the National Court that García Castellón orchestrates an “artificial” case against him

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The defense of Juan Carlos Monedero has presented a brief alleging violation of rights because the access that has been given to the investigations has been mutilated by the court and he cannot even have the report of the UDEF that would have sustained a “prospective” investigation, according to the Criminal Chamber and the Prosecutor’s Office of the National Court agreed.

García Castellón was not satisfied with the closure of the case and decided to prolong it through the formula of deducing testimony against Monedero, which will now be investigated by García Castellón’s assistant judge, Joaquín Gadea, who has once again declared the new investigations secret.

In the brief presented by Monedero’s defense, it is recalled that the information they claim “is not secret, so there is no cause or justification for not recording the merited reports of the UDEF, especially with respect to whom the data is recorded. ”.

Monedero’s defense shows that he also lacks “an order or any other resolution issued, or that should have been cited, to initiate the merited expurgation piece”, that is, the documents that have been suppressed for lack of relevance for the investigations but somehow they were obtained by the judge. “This party does not know what the criteria are for the documents to be expurgated,” adds Monedero’s lawyer.

Likewise, the defense wonders what the criteria are for granting the status of protected witnesses who offered unsubstantiated testimonies against Monedero and the rest of the founders of Podemos investigated, according to the conclusion of the superior instance to García Castellón.

For not including, the judge has not even transferred the defense of the testimony of Hugo ‘El Pollo’ Carvajal, on which the case against Podemos filed in 2016 was supposedly reopened because it was press clippings from the PISA report, prepared by the PP political brigade.



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