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Anti-corruption asks the judge of the 'Villarejo case' to archive the piece investigating Corinna Larsen

2020-10-21T12:33:57.273Z


The Prosecutor's Office concludes that there are no indications that the commissioner commissioned Juan Carlos I's examiner to spy on his assistant


The Anticorruption Prosecutor's Office has sent a letter to the judge of the National Court Manuel García-Castellón, instructor of the Villarejo case, in which he asks to archive the investigation into the alleged orders that Corinna Larsen, examiner of King Emeritus Juan Carlos I, made to the retired commissioner José Manuel Villarejo.

The judge reopened these investigations, baptized as a Carol piece, last July, after the Police had sent two new audios of conversations between Villarejo and Larsen, months before, to the court, found in the former's house that revealed "the possible existence of a commission" by the monarch's examiner to the police to obtain data on his Spanish personal assistant, who he suspected was leaking data from his private life.

The magistrate then summoned both to testify as being investigated for September, along with businessman Juan Villalonga, and the former partner of Villarejo, the lawyer Rafael Redondo, who were also participating in the talks, but subsequently suspended these appearances.

In its letter to request that the case be archived, the Prosecutor's Office maintains that from the evidence practiced so far there is no evidence that the retired police officer had finally carried out the Larssen assignment and requests that the investigations be archived.

The Carol piece was the fifth to be opened within the summary of the Villarejo case, which already has thirty investigations into the alleged illegal works of the commissioner.

At first, the investigations began as a result of the discovery of some audios in the possession of the police plot in which Larsen attributed - without evidence - to King Juan Carlos I the collection of commissions and the use of figureheads to hide an alleged fortune in Switzerland and a piece of land in Marrakech.

The businesswoman also assured that the monarch charged for mediating in the award to Spanish companies of the construction of the AVE to Mecca, a work of more than 7,000 million euros executed by a Spanish consortium of 12 firms.

However, the piece was closed in 2018 when considering that the data provided by Larsen in that recording referred to events that occurred before the abdication of Juan Carlos I, so the King was inviolable at that time.

However, the then investigator of the case, Judge Diego de Egea, sent the Prosecutor's Office the part related to the alleged collection of commissions for the work of the AVE and, months later, Anticorrupción opened proceedings, which are those that have led to the investigation to the emeritus king in the Prosecutor's Office.

Since then, the piece remained archived, until the Internal Affairs Unit of the National Police sent two new recordings to the court at the end of last January, the content of which could “appear criminal”.

They were the audios about Larsen's supposed order for the retired commissioner to spy on his assistant.

Last July, Judge García-Castellón decided, based on those recordings, to reopen the piece to clarify “the possible existence” of that commission, if it materialized, what it consisted of and if any amount was paid.

Since then, the police have concluded that Larsen's alleged assignment to Villarejo occurred in October 2016, when the policeman was already retired (he did so in June of that year), thus eliminating the possible crime of bribery.

This had been, precisely, one of the main arguments of Corinna's defense to request that the case be closed, and that has yet to be resolved by the National Court.

Source: elparis

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