The former Chief of Information of the Police Germán Rodríguez Castiñeira assured this Tuesday before the judge of the National Court Santiago Pedraz that the former head of the Central Operational Support Unit (UCAO) of the Police Enrique García Castaño asked him to look for the records police of the 69 Podemos deputies, indicating that he had refused, alleging that this was illegal.
Legal sources have explained to Europa Press that Rodríguez Castiñeira has expressed himself this way in his statement as an investigator before the magistrate who is investigating the alleged prospective investigations unrelated to judicial control that would have been carried out on several charges of the purple formation.
The former police leader, who has only responded to the Prosecutor’s Office and his defense, has maintained that he became very angry with García Castaño’s request, which caused him to back down and assure that it was a joke. Rodríguez Castiñeira, according to the aforementioned sources, has indicated that García Castaño He did not reveal who the order came from. above him.
Podemos’s complaint
Podemos filed a complaint for crimes of criminal organization, seizure and disclosure of secrets, administrative prevarication and document falsification. He was also presented for embezzlement and for a crime against State institutions, although the magistrate ruled out these last two crimes as both types of crimes could not be subsumed in the events reported.
In its letter, Podemos assured that the defendants – under the alleged leadership of the then Secretary of State for Security – “were in charge of carrying out prospective investigations unrelated to any police interest, not under judicial control or the Public Prosecutor’s Office on the people who they made up the political organization.”
Furthermore, the training indicated that Martínez periodically reported to Fernández Díaz, taking advantage of his status as a public authority and with the collaboration of police agents.
Eight specific actions
The main objective, according to the party, was its subsequent leak to the media under the label of reliability of “police sources” to discredit training in public opinionthus attacking the indemnity of its deputies and other public officials.
This way of operating, the complaint indicated, took place in eight actions, such as the investigation of the then leader of the party Pablo Iglesias in the PISA report, the leak of a “false” document from an account in his name at the Euro Pacific Bank Limited or the manipulation of documents or internal police records to give the appearance of legality to the actions of the defendants.
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