“I’m not going to give an opinion, I’m going to give data”, after this slogan repeated this Tuesday and also last week in the Congress of Deputies by retired commissioner Marcelino Martín-Blas there was a strategy: to support the existence of the Operation Catalunya beyond speculation. And it seems that he has achieved it.
The one who was head of Internal Affairs of the Police between 2012 and 2015 has led the spokespersons of the parliamentary groups in the commission of inquiry into the Operation Catalunya huge documentation on the maneuvers orchestrated by the political brigade of Rajoy’s Ministry of the Interior to harm Catalan sovereigntist politicians, through false reports, false accounts in tax havens, fake news and other strategies.
A battery of clues that People’s Party and Vox They have tried to discredit and have tried to prevent this Tuesday’s session from taking place, by registering documentation this Monday late in the afternoon from Feijóo to counteract that provided by Commissioner Martín-Blas.
The PP wanted to submit a complaint from an individual about the audios that were brought to the Martín-Blas commission, refusing to allow them to be delivered to the deputies. But the president of the commission, the socialist María Luz Martínez Seijo, has not allowed it.
‘Operation Catalunya’, documented
“Today, I can say that there was indeed a Operation Catalunyawhich is now documented,” stated the commissioner, who referred to the fact that with the passage of time he has learned more details of the operation of the police group, led by DAO (Deputy Operations Director) from then on, Commissioner Eugenio Pino, and of which Commissioner Villarejo, among others, was a part.
This group, baptized as the political brigade of the Police, acted for the benefit of the PP, as happened in the Kitchen casewhen evidence of the PP box b to former treasurer Luis Bárcenas. Pino, Villarejo and Martín-Blas himself are being prosecuted in this case.
He former head of internal affairs repeated this Tuesday, in a marathon session of more than five hours, which had nothing to do with Kitchen nor with the Operation Catalunya. “It’s not that I lied then [en referencia a cuando acudió a declarar a la comisión del Parlament de Catalunya]I didn’t know (…) I had nothing to do with this, I defended the truth and they continue to blame me,” said Marcelino Martín-Blas, dismissed as head of Internal Affairs of the Police because “He had been giving problems” to DAO Eugenio Pino for some time, referring to the fact that he questioned his orders, as he himself explained.
In fact, it was Commissioner Martín-Blas and his team who put Villarejo and his “friends” from the UDEF (Central Unit of Economic and Fiscal Crime) on the ropes. “I confess that I have a personal interest in demonstrating that the Operation Catalunya Mr. Villarejo and his friends set it up and they blame me,” he responded to the ERC deputy Pilar Vallugera.
To the EH Bildu deputy Jon Iñarrituthe retired commissioner has agreed with him about “the racketeering” with the UDEF reports, after Martín-Blas dismantled last week the false report referring to Jordi Pujol and Artur Mas.
“That was a joke”
“After analyzing the agendas [de Villarejo]Yeah. It was done with the Gürtel and with Catalonia, this is documented, it is not my assessment,” Martín-Blas said about the “manipulation” of some UDEF reports and added that some officials “did not do what they had to do.”
“The inspectors make them, a chief inspector corrects them and they are traded or dealt with,” he stated in relation to these manipulated reports. “The vast majority of police officers believe in the rule of law. Here I am, ten years after my retirement to defend my institution,” he replied to Gerardo Pisarello, from Sumarin response to a reflection on the corrupt police officers of the ‘political brigade’. “That was nonsense,” the commissioner concluded.
The audios
The former head of Internal Affairs of the Police has mentioned some of the audios that he provided last week, such as the conversation recorded in December 2012 between the then Minister of the Interior, Jorge Fernández Díazhe DAO Eugenio Pinohe Commissioner Villarejo and Francisco Martínezat that time, chief of staff of the Minister of the Interior and later Secretary of State for Security, where they comment that the UDEF “has saved them from Gürtel and the issue of Catalonia”.
Some spokespersons have made him see that they do not understand his role in some episodes that are not related to the powers of the Internal Affairs brigade, for example, in relation to the extortion of the Private Banking of Andorra (BPA)one of the crucial parts of the Operation Catalunya and that is being investigated in Andorra.
In this sense, Martín-Blas has indicated that Eugenio Pino asked him to meet with Joan Pau Miquelformer CEO of the BPA. He has also said that Pino and Ciercoone of the owners of BPA, met at the wedding of a nephew of the lawyer Fuster-Fabra. But Martín-Blas has exonerated himself from having participated in the plot that led to the fall of the Private Banking of Andorra after the participation of police from the ‘political brigade’ to try to link Catalan politicians with accounts in Andorra.
The PP, very uncomfortable
Rafael Hernandospokesperson for the PP in the commission on Operation Catalunya, has appeared very uncomfortable throughout this Tuesday’s session, interrupting the rest of the shifts, to the point that the president of the table has called him to order several times and about has been about to expel him.
Both Vox and the PP have asked Marcelino Martín-Blas to deliver Villarejo’s agendas to the commission, after confirming the commissioner who owns them because he is in person at the Cause Kitchen.
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