The previous director of the Civil Guard, Leonardo Marcos, assured this Monday in the Senate that he did not give any “tip” to Koldo García about the investigation that was being carried out against the corruption plot. Regarding whether he knows the former advisor to José Luis Ábalos, former director Marcos has answered: “No. Never. Never”.
Marcos was called to testify to the commission by the opposition because in a conversation intervened by the Central Operational Unit, and incorporated into the case, Koldo García assured the also investigated commander Rubén V. that it had been the director of the Civil Guard who He had informed him of the investigations underway.
The UCO itself reduces credibility to this statement, as it does with another in which Koldo García implicates the deputy operational director, General Manuel Llamas, because on the day that the former Transport advisor assures that he met with the number two of the armed institute Investigators were able to verify that the meeting never occurred. Marcos has said that his departure from the Civil Guard has “absolutely nothing to do” with the corruption plot.
The UPN spokesperson, María del Mar Caballero, raised the complaint filed by two professional associations of the Civil Guard against Marcos for these events. At this point, the former director pointed to “an attempt at revenge for the disciplinary proceedings that I had to open to some of its leaders for serious violations of one of the main obligations of the Civil Guard, which is to maintain neutrality.” One of these associations, the AUGC, was not the subject of the disciplinary proceedings mentioned by the former director.
Marcos declared by videoconference from Washington, to whose embassy he has been assigned as Information Advisor after being dismissed as director of the Civil Guard. On this point he was questioned on several occasions. Marcos has said that he was fired at his own request and has denied that his position in Washington is “a reward” or the “price” for his silence.
In this sense, she has stated that she came to the Civil Guard with the aim of providing “stability” after the Corps had had two female directors who did not remain in office for long – María Gámez resigned due to a judicial accusation against her husband who later declined and her replacement , now director again, left the position to join the PSOE list in the last general elections – and that after having been director of Emergencies for almost four years it was time to leave “the first line of public security policies.”
elDiario.es published that Marcos’ dismissal occurred in the context of a bad relationship with the Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, and amid criticism from investigative units for the excessive interventionism of the director of the Civil Guard. PP senator Ana Beltrán insisted on the reasons for her dismissal and Marcos responded that Minister Marlaska would have to be asked, although she insisted: “I submitted my resignation voluntarily to return to my career.” Marcos had in the past been a counselor at the Spanish Embassy in the United States and also in other diplomatic delegations.
This afternoon the appearance of the Civil Guard commander Rubén V. C, accused of being in the pay of the Koldo case corruption plot, is scheduled to appear. Leonardo Marcos has said that he did not know the commander and that he dismissed him from his duties the day he learned that he was under investigation.
Beltrán has asked him why he then defended his appointment as Minister of the Interior at the Spanish Embassy in Venezuela shortly before being arrested. Marcos explained that he endorsed the proposal of the Civil Guard body that evaluates the candidates and that he transferred it to the destinations commission headed by the Secretary of State for Security, Rafael Pérez, in charge of signing the agreements.
He does not know the name of the colonel against jihadism
The PP senator has revealed the name of the colonel of the anti-terrorist structure dedicated to combating jihadism in the Civil Guard, a colonel whom Marcos has said he does not know by name. “I know who he is but I don’t know what his name and surname are,” Marcos said about the person most responsible for the fight against Islamist terrorism in the Corps that he has directed for eleven months.
This colonel is relevant to the plot because the UCO seized from Commander Rubén a recording made by him with his superior in which the former demonstrates that he is aware that Víctor de Aldama, the businessman at the center of the corruption plot, was aware of Altao as a confidant of the unit against Islamist terrorism. He also knew that they were provided with puncture-free mobile phones and that sweeps were carried out on their cars.
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