Nervis Villalobos, former Deputy Minister of Electric Energy in the government of Hugo Chávez, has declared Monday at the National Court that one of the outstanding members of the Political Brigade, the inspector Bonifacio Díaz Sevillano, delivered “police sheets” of members of Podemos at the end of 2015 or early 2016, legal sources have reported.
Villalobos has declared a witness in the case followed by the Court of Instruction number 5 of the National Court for the police maneuvers against Podemos during the last government of the Popular Party. Villalobos has recognized the interest that the police at that time maintained in the political party, with parliamentary representation and without a judicial case against the formation or its members.
Bonifacio Díaz Sevillano was tried and acquitted in the case of the Pendrive of the Pujol – by which the Supreme Court has condemned its boss, Eugenio Pino – and will sit on the bench of those accused of the parapolicial espionage to Luis Bárcenas, another of the operations of the so -called political brigade of the PP government. Díaz Sevillano, already retired, declared as a witness in the case for the maneuvers against Podemos.
The “police chips” to which Villalobos has referred on Monday appeared in the registry that was practiced in their home in Spain within the case that investigates the money laundering from PDVSA, the Venezuelan state oil company and in which Villalobos is investigated. The former Chavez position has not been able to remember today which members of Podemos correspond to those “police sheets.”
Villalobos is one of the complainants of an alleged police mafia who tried to extort several Venezuelan hierarchs in exchange for guaranteeing their safety in Spain, not being extradited to Venezuela or the United States and unlocking the bank accounts that justice had intervened.
In that case, which is investigated in a Court in Madrid, he already declared what he has ratified today at the National Court, that Bonifacio Díaz Sevillano himself and a lawyer and lobist named Martín Rodil – a member member of the aforementioned mafia – began to ask him for Podemos in the United States, before Villalobos he moved to live in Spain, between October and November 2015.
The dirty war against Podemos started from almost the moment of the emergence of the party in Spanish politics but intensified with doses and publications in media related to the PP when the possibility of reaching a Government Agreement of the PSOE was approaching, after the elections of December 2015. In Spain they followed the pressures of the Spanish Police to obtain information from Podemos, with him and with third parties, as Villaloobos said this Monday before Judge Santiago Santiago.
This Monday has also declared Javier Ochoa Alvarado, who held the same position as Villalobos in another period. Alvarado Ochoa – as was called before obtaining Spanish nationality – was appointed Vice Minister of Electric Power of Venezuela in 2010 and the following year he was in charge of Bariven, one of the PDVSA subsidiaries (Petroleos de Venezuela). It is prosecuted in the Central Court of Instruction number 2 for an alleged bribe of the Asturian company Duro Felguera to build a thermoelectric plant in Venezuela. As Nervis Villalobos, another National Court Court, number 3, investigates it for the embezzlement of PDVSA itself and the money laundering from the embezzlement of the Venezuelan state oil company.
Alvarado Ochoa is also a complainant of the extortion mafia investigated in a court in Madrid, the so -called Caranjuez case. Within the framework of that case, he advanced what he has ratified today at the National Court, which he delivered the “account point” – a lucky order of payment – of 7.1 million euros to the CEPS Foundation, which passed the founders of Podemos, six years before political formation was created.
Alvarado Ochoa has recognized that this “account point” was a photocopy. Sources of the case suspect that it is the same as other members of the Political Brigade led to New York so that also former Deputy Minister Rafael Isea confirmed its authenticity – “with Rajoy’s mandate” – or the one delivered by former General Hugo ‘El Pollo’ Carvajal to Judge Manuel García Castellón and in which the magistrate supported himself to investigate in secret for months to Podemos.
Javier Alvarado Ochoa has acknowledged having held two meetings with the architect of the Political Brigade, Commissioner Eugenio Pino, at that time Deputy Director of the Police and charged in the aforementioned cause of the National Court. In those meetings, Alvarado Ochoa went to deliver PDVSA documentation and the police insisted on what he could get from Podemos. The meetings took place in the first half of 2016, the most intense period of police maneuvers against Podemos.
The lawyer of secret reports against Podemos
Those meetings attended, he said, the one who was head of the Udef, José Manuel García Catalán and Bonifacio Díaz Sevillano himself – both not yet charged in this cause -, as Alvarado Ochoa said. He was accompanied by lawyer José Aliste, who has also declared today as a witness.
Aliste’s true role was revealed last February by eldiario.es. Aliste is a record with a history of fraud that wrote seven reports on Podemos that are still in police intelligence databases. This Monday Aliste has complained about the publication by Eldiario.es of those documents and has said that “they did not go against Podemos” because the party then did not exist. The reports are entitled “Podemos” or “We Can” and are dated when the party already had a wide parliamentary representation.
Aliste has defended that all her work was on legal representation of Alvarado Ochoa and the “professional lago” has been hosted to not develop their answers. Aliste came to travel to the United States to recruit Venezuelan confidants against Podemos, according to eldiario.es.
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