The National Court has suspended the trial that was going to begin this Monday against the businessman Javier Lopez Madrid and the retired commissioner Jose Manuel Villarejo. López Madrid is accused of hiring Villarejo to harass dermatologist Elisa Pinto, with whom the former OHL director had a private conflict.
The court in charge of prosecuting these events has accepted the request for suspension of the lawyer representing Dr. PintoAna Vazquez, for being on medical leave due toas she herself has explained, to a disease that makes it difficult for her to speak and causes tremors after undergoing surgery for a tumor. Until Elisa Pinto is discharged, the oral hearing will not be scheduled again.
The only ones who have opposed the suspension have been the lawyers of López Madrid and Villarejo’s partner, Rafael Redondo.who also sits in the dock. Villarejo’s lawyer has chosen to leave the decision in the hands of the court.
This was going to be the first trial that López Madrid and Villarejo were going to face for the Pinto caseafter the scheduled oral hearing before the Criminal Court number 10 of Madrid was postponed for one year in September for threatening and harassing the doctor to get her to withdraw a harassment complaint. For these events, the Prosecutor’s Office requests seven years and 10 months in prison for each one.
Instead, In the National Court, only Dr. Pinto accuses them, who asks for between two and six years in prison for the three accused.since the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office requested that this case be filed considering that it had not been verified that López Madrid gave any gift to Villarejo for this alleged assignment and the perpetration of a bribery crime was not “duly justified.”
For this reason, some of the defenses suspect that behind the interest in suspending the trial in the National Court there may actually be a strategy to ensure that the one pending in the aforementioned Criminal Court of Madrid is tried sooner.
The lawyer has appeared at the trial, despite having previously presented a supporting medical leave document that you should stay at home and avoid traveling.
Surprising the president of the court that he had attended under those circumstances, he explained that he had chosen to appear to avoid “disobeying a court” given that he did not know his response to the medical leave document recently provided after a first request had been rejected a few days ago. request for suspension due to illness.
He has also indicated that due to the difficulty of re-scheduling the trial, whose new date could be delayed until May 2026the court has an “interest” in resolving the preliminary issues in advance of the trial.
To this end, he has indicated that the previous questions raised will be transferred when the lawyer is discharged so that they can be resolved before the oral hearing begins, which is why he has insisted to the lawyer that as soon as she is discharged she will inform the court.
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