The judge of the 'Volhov case' insists on Russia's “economic and military” support for Puigdemont

The judge of the Investigative Court 1, Joaquín Aguirre, has extended the investigation of the Russian plot of the

for six months , which involves, among others, the former head of international relations at CDC Víctor Terradellas;

to the head of Carles Puigdemont's office, Josep Lluís Alay, and to the computer scientist Jaume Cabaní.

In the order, the judge explains that the extension begins to count from the end of the current period, on February 27, and will be extended for six more months.

In addition, he has also detailed that the instruction of this piece must be extended since "this is the piece from which the other separate pieces of the so-called

are derived , in case it becomes necessary to carry out more test procedures common to the other pieces and until these do not end.”

After reviewing the documentation of the case, the magistrate assures that he has found “data that identifies people and would confirm the close personal relationships existing between some of those investigated with individuals of Russian, German or Italian nationality”, some of them while they held diplomatic positions. and they had relations with the Russian secret services.

According to the judge, the interest of those investigated was to establish links of “political and economic influence for the destabilization of democracy and the European Union, consequences among which the departure of Spain from the EU could occur due to the unilateral independence of Catalonia supported by the Russian government.”

Aguirre believes that there is a lot of documentation still to be reviewed and his intention is to deepen relations with Russian citizens, one of them, a former diplomat who met with Puigdemont at the Casa dels Canonges in Barcelona days before the unilateral declaration of independence, on the 27th. October 2017. The document also explains conversations between Terradellas and David Madí, a former CDC official, and other meetings of the former leader of Junts and Puigdemont's trusted person, Elsa Artadi, at the Colón hotel in Barcelona.

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