The National Court has set the trial against the retired commissioner for March 2026, seven years after starting the process. Jose Manuel Villarejo and two journalists for the Dina caserelated to the theft of the mobile phone of Dina Bousselhamformer advisor to Pablo Iglesiasin 2015, and the misuse of information stored on the device to harm Can.
Between March 16 and 19, 2026, the fourth Criminal Section will judge this piece separately from the Villarejo casewhich was opened on March 19, 2019 after the judge received a report from Internal Affairs about files found at the retired commissioner’s home. This was established by the court in a decree issued this week, to which Efe has had access and against which there is an appeal.
Legal sources have indicated to Efe that the different sections already have the trials scheduled for 2025, and in this case, since there are no preventive detainees in the case, priority is not given to other procedures that allow the trial to be brought forward.
In this process, Villarejo and two journalists from the defunct magazine will sit on the bench. Interview, Alberto Pozas and Luis Rendueleswho are accused of a crime of discovery and disclosure of secretsfor which they face requests for prison sentence.
The Prosecutor’s Office requests a sentence of five years in prison for Villarejo and three years for the two journalists
The Prosecutor’s Office requests a sentence of five years in prison for Villarejo and three years for the journalists, while the former vice president of the Government, Iglesias, and Bousselham, who act as a private prosecutor, ask for four years in prison for Villarejo and between three and four years for the journalists.
The Prosecutor’s Office accuses the journalists of collaborating with Villarejo
He Dina case focuses on the information that appeared in 2017 during a police search at Villarejo’s home, stored in the DINA 2 and DINA 3 folders. These contained files from the memory card that had been stolen from Iglesias’ former advisor, two years before. .
In addition to prosecuting Villarejo, the judge in the case, Manuel García-Castellón, He also accused the two journalistsconsidering that they were the ones who provided him with part of the information contained on the memory card, which was of a reserved nature and it had reached their hands in January 2016.
The journalists have defended their innocence at all times and have argued that they provided the information because it was a police request. The Prosecutor’s Office, for its part, maintains that both journalists, between January and April 2016, delivered a copy of the card to Villarejo, “knowing that he was an active police officer“and knowing that the card contained “internal documents” of Podemos, bank details and “intimate and personal files” of Bousselham, as detailed in his provisional conclusions.
According to the Prosecutor’s Office, when Villarejo obtained the information and “with abuse of duties“As a police officer, he handed over these files to journalists he trusted so that”will publish the information in order to discredit” Podemos. For his part, Iglesias maintains that the theft of the card and the “circulation” of its contents had the “clear objective” of harming him and his party.
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