The cat and mouse game that some of the statements by police commanders have become in the investigation into the dirty war against Podemos reached one of its heights this Wednesday with the testimony of Commissioner Manuel Vázquez, already retired and known in the Policeman like ‘Fiti’. Head of the Unit against Economic and Fiscal Investigation (UDEF) of the Police during the Government of the Popular Party, Vázquez defended before the judge that his agents never investigated Podemos or any other political party and that the documented investigations alluded to possible tax crimes of a company that the Police itself had linked in the PISA report (Pablo Iglesias Sociedad Anónima) with alleged illegal financing of the purple training.
A former subordinate of Vázquez has admitted in a report to the court that the UDEF opened the so-called ‘Operation Venus’ to verify the veracity of the statements contained in a dossier that came to them from the Deputy Operational Directorate (DAO), the PISA Report, whose dissemination in some media was used to try to sabotage the negotiations to form a Government that Podemos and PSOE held in the spring of 2016.
Judge Santiago Pedraz, who is investigating the maneuvers against Podemos in the National Court, agreed to call Vázquez as a witness at the request of the political party, which is carrying out the private prosecution, and with the support of the Prosecutor’s Office. In his statement this Wednesday, Vázquez tried to make those present believe that the UDEF investigation that he directed concerned the accounts of 360 Global Media, the instrument through which Podemos would have been financed by the Iranian regime, according to the PISA report.
The truth is that the parapolice dossier ended up becoming a problem for the Police under the orders of Jorge Fernández Díaz. The Supreme Court, first, and then the National Court refused to open a judicial investigation based on the conjectures he presented. Without the signature of an official or the seal of any unit, the dossier became a ‘hot potato’ that had to be disposed of. As occurred in the maneuvers against the sovereignty process in Catalonia, later reproduced with Podemos, the Deputy Operational Directorate of Commissioner Eugenio Pino used the UDEF to try to whitewash the accusations without evidence that were made there.
In a few months, the UDEF was forced to close Operation Venus based on what the PISA report said, but a new life was still sought for the dossier: the Court of Accounts. This administrative body that analyzes, among others, the financing of parties, also archived it over time, once the noise that the publication of its content had caused had passed. Vázquez acknowledged this Wednesday before the judge who was in charge of sending the dossier to the Court of Accounts.
Manuel Vázquez telephoned judges of the Supreme Court to evaluate the PISA pseudo-report against Podemos, prepared by the political brigade, which Clean Hands had contributed in a complaint against Pablo Iglesias and Iñigo Errejón. He was rewarded in his last active years with the Higher Headquarters of Galicia, the commissioner’s homeland.
The day in the case of the dirty war against Podemos has been completed with the statement of the general secretary of the Deputy Operational Directorate (DAO) at that time, José María González. The defense of this commissioner has been that he held an “administrative” position, despite being number two in the DAO, just below the architect of the political brigade, Eugenio Pino, and that if his name appears in the transfer of dossiers vigilantes or the documents to grant residency to a Venezuelan author of a hoax against Pablo Iglesias, he limited himself to signing. He has gone so far as to say that he transferred “closed envelopes” whose contents he did not even consult.
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