The head of the Court of Instruction Number 7 asks the Prosecutor’s Office to rule on the viability of the bribery complaint against López Miras and the Secretary General of Health, presented by Podemos and Izquierda Unida
The Examining Court Number 7 of Murcia has opened information proceedings after the complaint filed by Podemos and Izquierda Unida against the president of the Community, Fernando López Miras, and the secretary general of the Ministry of Health, Andrés Torrente, whom they accuse of bribery for having mediated, presumably, to advance the terms of a surgical operation to a relative of the general secretary of the PP, Teodoro García Egea.
In an order notified on December 2, the judge asked the Public Prosecutor to rule on the viability of the complaint filed within ten days, “prior to deciding whether or not to formally address the complaint. procedure against the accused ».
The complaint was filed after information was published in the Infolibre media that indicated that the head of the regional Executive had mediated last April to carry out a surgical operation to which a relative of the general secretary of the PP had to undergo, Teodoro García Egea.
The content was based on a photograph of López Miras’ mobile phone screen, during a plenary session in the Regional Assembly, in which a fragment of a WhatsApp conversation is captured. The aforementioned media assumes that it was not only interested in when García Egea’s relative would be operated on, but that it would have mediated before the Secretary General of the Ministry of Health, Andrés Torrente, to have it done.
“Hello, the intervention is going to be scheduled on Tuesday the 20th in the afternoon,” were the words of López Miras. “Cojonudo”, answered García Egea, as indicated by infoLibre.
Research in La Arrixaca
Following this publication, proceedings were opened at the Virgen de la Arrixaca Hospital in Murcia, where they also investigated whether there was favorable treatment for this patient because he was a relative of García Egea. In this sense, there is a report from the admission coordinator that certified that «the clinical case has followed the usual process of transfer between centers for certain pathologies and is in the average waiting period for intervention within the processes classified at the same level of complexity pathological and risk ”. “With the available and certified data, we understand that there are no indications of favorable treatment to this patient,” the report concluded.
In addition, La Arrixaca improper access to the medical history of Teodoro García Egea’s family member and the leakage of private data on his state of health. The hospital opened an investigation as a result of the patient’s complaints, which verified how the media knew very exact data about his medical history that led to suspect that they had knowledge of details of it.
The inspection kept track of who had accessed said file. And they discovered an entry that surprised them because it had no professional justification. The person who had entered the record irregularly was a health worker from the Morales Meseguer Hospital, who currently does not perform care functions because he is dedicated to his work as a delegate of the UGT union in the hospital center. Therefore, oblivious to the care process of the patient.
The investigator of the proceedings summoned this union official and took a statement from him on July 1. He admitted the facts and confessed that he did so at the request of another person of a higher hierarchical level in the UGT union, historically linked to the PSOE. Although he admitted that he was surprised by this request, he complied with the order, entering the medical history of the relative of Teodoro García Egea without the knowledge or authorization of this patient, who is the sole legal owner of his health documentation. However, he assured that he only communicated to his superior the name of the physician of the affected party, without obtaining any other type of data or medical report.
Complaint for disclosure of secrets
On the other hand, the director of Infolibre and the writer who signed the information recently had to testify in court, following the complaint for disclosure of secrets presented to them by López Miras and García Egea. This crime punishes those who “to discover secrets or violate the privacy of another, without their consent, seizes their papers, letters, e-mails or any other documents or personal effects, intercepts their telecommunications or uses technical listening devices, transmission, recording or reproduction of sound or image, or of any other communication signal ”.
The dissemination without consent of reserved personal or family data is also punishable. ” It can carry penalties of up to five years in prison.
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