Thursday, March 28

García Castellón proposes to try Villarejo and two journalists in the Dina case after failing with Pablo Iglesias

The National Court has proposed judging the retired commissioner José Manuel Villarejo and the journalists Alberto Pozas Fernández and Luis Rendueles for the ‘Dina case’, the separate piece of ‘Tándem’ where they investigated the route that took the phone card of the former adviser of Podemos Dina Bousselham since her mobile phone was stolen in 2015 until part of the information it contained was published.

In the order to pass to abbreviated procedure, collected by Europa Press, the head of the Central Court of Instruction Number 6, Manuel García Castellón, leaves the three defendants one step away from the bench for an alleged crime of discovery and disclosure of secrets, giving a period of 10 days for the Prosecutor’s Office and the accusations to request the opening of an oral trial or, if they consider it, the file.

The magistrate places the events in November 2015, when Bousselham was with his partner, Ricardo Antonio De Sa Ferreira, inside the IKEA in Alcorcón “when he noticed the disappearance of the coat” of the latter, “in whose interior They kept several objects among which” were the telephones of both.

Two years later, in November 2017, the police carried out an entry and search at the Villarejo home in Boadilla del Monte in which they discovered a series of folders with the name of the former adviser, among which were “several files coming from the mini SD card” of your mobile.

The investigation carried out by the Court, explains the magistrate, allowed him to “clarify” his journey. “It is known that in January 2016, part of the information contained in the mini SD memory card that was on Bousselham’s phone came into the hands of the journalist Alberto Pozas Fernández, at that time director of Interviú magazine, who a copy was saved on his computer ”, he details.

Pozas, in turn, “shares the files and much of the information contained in the card with the deputy editor of the magazine, Luis Rendueles.” “Later, the memory card is delivered to the president of the magazine’s Editorial Group, Antonio Asensio,” added the judge.

On an undetermined date in early 2016, before April 14 of that year, Villarejo Pérez contacted Rendueles to ask him to deliver a copy of the Bousselham files.

Rendueles then transmitted, the judge maintains, that request to Pozas Fernández who, “despite knowing that the card contained personal information unrelated to Villarejo, agreed to the request.” “Both stay with Villarejo and provide him with part of the content of the mini SD memory card belonging to Dina Bousselham,” he continues.

The judge of the National Court assures that “this account of facts is subsumable, with respect to the three cited investigated, in an alleged crime of discovery and disclosure of secrets.”

“This accusation is based, fundamentally, on the indications that have been referred to in the statement of the proven facts referred to above, as well as on the extensive and abundant documentation that works in the case, statements by witnesses and statements by those investigated.” , he concludes.

The judge already issued an order in October 2020 ending the investigation of this piece and proposing to try both Villarejo and the two journalists for an alleged crime of discovery and disclosure of secrets. In addition, the magistrate sent the Supreme Court a reasoned statement in which he asked to investigate the former leader of Podemos Pablo Iglesias, against whom he directed a large part of the investigation for months despite the reproaches of the Criminal Chamber of the National Court itself and the Supreme Court for the absence of evidence against the former leader of Podemos. García Castellón even removed the condition of injured party that the Criminal Chamber forced him to restore for the former vice president.



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