The Superior Prosecutor's Office of Catalonia has archived the proceedings that it opened last January to find out if members of the police, under the PP Government, investigated the former chief prosecutor of Catalonia Martín Rodríguez Sol without judicial permission to discredit him for his alleged links with the independence movement. The public ministry has not found “any trace” that Rodríguez Sol was subject to surveillance, as reported in a press release. This was the first investigation that the Prosecutor's Office opened into the so-called 'Operation Catalonia', the maneuvers orchestrated against the independence movement by police groups allegedly directed by the Ministry of the Interior during the Government of Mariano Rajoy.
In January, the Prosecutor's Office echoed journalistic information that pointed to the existence of a police operation against Rodríguez Sol behind the backs of the public ministry and the justice system. The former chief prosecutor of Catalonia was dismissed in 2013 for defending the viability of a self-determination consultation in that autonomous community, and now the public ministry was trying to find out if at that time he was the victim of a “prospective police” investigation to discredit him. But from the investigations carried out “no data is inferred that would allow us to confirm the reality of the aforementioned monitoring” or any other type of action in relation to Martínez Sol, the statement says. There is “no trace of police actions in this regard.”
In any case, the Prosecutor's Office recalls that in the agendas seized from retired commissioner José Manuel Villarejo, who has in his hands the investigative court number 6 of the National Court in the framework of the “Tándem case”, there are “explicit references” to Rodríguez Sol along with many other people and entities. For this reason, the public ministry will remain waiting for what may emerge from this criminal investigation to act if new data “emerges” about the alleged monitoring of the prosecutor.
Within the framework of the investigation that has now been archived, the Superior Prosecutor's Office of Catalonia asked the newspaper The vanguard already elDiario.es the document that these media published last January and that pointed to an alleged irregular investigation into Rodríguez Sol, and commissioned the National Police to determine its veracity. The document supposedly revealed that the police, during the time of Minister Jorge Fernández Díaz as head of the Interior, looked for “links” between the then prosecutor and the Democratic Union of Catalonia, a party on whose lists Rodríguez Sol ran in the 2015 Catalan elections. During During his mandate, the former top prosecutor had ordered an investigation into the dissemination of false information about alleged accounts in tax havens of the former presidents of the Generalitat Artur Mas and Jordi Pujol.
The Prosecutor's Office was trying to determine whether this hypothetical “prospective police” investigation into Rodríguez Sol could constitute crimes against privacy, administrative prevarication and falsification of official documents, but it has finally archived the investigations as it did not find any indication of irregularities.
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