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The false ID that Commissioner Villarejo used for years

2021-03-08T01:20:29.527Z


Prosecutors fear that the former agent, released last week, will use his experience with "double identities" to devise a plan to escape from Spain.


For 40 years, José Manuel Villarejo Pérez was not only José Manuel Villarejo Pérez, born in the Cordovan town of El Carpio on August 4, 1951, son of Pedro and Ángela.

But it was also Francisco Javier Hidalgo Estévez (1957), a presumed native of Mérida.

Or José Javier Esteban Alonso (1958), descendant of a certain María.

Or Manuel Pérez Villar.

Or José Javier Hidalgo Estévez, supposedly come to the world in Badajoz capital in 1949. The fictitious identities that the Ministry of the Interior provided to this retired commissioner, the epicenter of a macro-plot of police corruption, multiplied for decades and the National Court suspects that he could use them in your dark goings-on.

This is evidenced by the documentation and the false ID that the investigators of the Tandem Operation located during the searches of their houses and offices, to which EL PAÍS has had access.

One of them dates back to the 1980s.

That ability of Villarejo to impersonate others has now become very relevant.

The fear of his escape has intensified after this man with a thousand faces left the Estremera prison (Madrid) last Wednesday after spending three years in provisional prison.

The magistrate Manuel García-Castellón released him due to the impossibility of judging him before next November, when the four years that, at most, he can remain locked up in a preventive manner without a sentence against it, would be completed.

The Anti-Corruption prosecutors themselves, who supported the release, warned of the risks involved and recalled that he was seized "documentation with multiple identities, as well as blank passports and large amounts of cash."

"That I'm going to flee is a lie," defended himself at the gates of Estremera the commissioner, who the judge has withdrawn his passport and forces him to appear daily in the court closest to his home.

But the researchers are wary.

"Logically it is not," explained the representatives of the public prosecutor in a letter sent to the judge, that Villarejo can use the false IDs that intercepted him after his arrest in 2017, but there is the possibility that he may resort to these or others identities for the “planning of a flight from the national territory”.

Experience to hide behind other names, of course, he does not lack.

For example, the macrosummary of the Tándem

case

, to which a good part of the papers that intervened has been incorporated, reveals that the commissioner used one of those fictitious names (Francisco Javier Hidalgo) in 2013 to acquire 100% of the shares of a company (Taja Develops Sociedad Limitada).

In addition, with the knowledge of his partner, Gemma Alcalá, who helped him in the procedures and who also handled his false ID, which he sent by email to open a bank account.

A premises was also rented or procedures were carried out before the commercial registry.

Prosecutors have known for a long time that Villarejo used the false identities provided by the Interior for his maneuvers, some allegedly protected by the Ministry - as Javier Hidalgo contacted Victoria Álvarez, Jordi Pujol Ferrusola's ex-girlfriend, whom he convinced to testify against his ex-partner, which allowed the opening of an investigation against the Pujol family.

The problem is where your agent activity ended and where your business began.

Or where the two were mixed.

And if it was legitimized by the Law or was allowed to operate outside of it for a supposed "national interest", as they defend in their environment.

Eugenio Pino, deputy director of the National Police with Mariano Rajoy and accused in the case of espionage without judicial control to the popular ex-treasurer Luis Bárcenas (Operation Kitchen), was asked directly about it in January 2020.

- Can you specify in what way the business structure of Villarejo facilitated or allowed him to carry out his tasks of information of police interest in the area of ​​the Deputy Directorate of Operations?

A prosecutor questioned Pino.

"To be specific, no."

Coverage is a very personal matter.

When I send him to a distant country to investigate the kidnapping of a series of people, I tell him to take advantage of his status as a lawyer.

[Villarejo registered as a lawyer in the Bar Association in 2009 and one of his companies was engaged in legal activity].

Because obviously he cannot use the documentation of the General Police Directorate ... When I send him to another country much further away to speak with a person, to see if it is possible for him to provide us with a series of data, I tell him if his wife You can provide a journalist card.

And nothing else, ”Pino replied.

"But then what's the point of having dubbed documentation?" Insisted the prosecutor.

"Ask whoever gave it to him," he dodged the police command.

When Operation Tandem broke out and the millionaire wealth accumulated by Villarejo began to be investigated, rogatory commissions were also issued to countries such as Uruguay, Panama and the United Kingdom to find out if in those States there were accounts or properties in the name of two of the identities false that the commissioner used and that had been provided to him by the Interior.

Source: elparis

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