Dolores Delgado and her circumstances

Last Tuesday, July 19, after announcing her resignation, Dolores Delgado granted an interview to the journalist José Manuel Romero, deputy director of the newspaper The country, Who asked you:

• There are those who say that you have now resigned so that they can appoint you as a courtroom prosecutor for the Democratic Memory Prosecutor’s Office.

• I have done it because my body is broken. And if I have to wait for nobody to say anything, I would never find the time or the moment.

Ergo: has not answered. And he hasn’t done it because third time lucky. The first two attempts at legal reforml (as Minister of Justice and from the FGE) so that after the cessation of the General State Prosecutors automatically ascend to the highest category – Prosecutor of the Supreme Court Chamber – they failed. It only remains, then, that he take charge of a prosecutor’s office that needs to be directed by a Chamber prosecutor. Y the Office of the Prosecutor for Democratic Memory, after the law was approvedis on its way, in the coming months, being one of the issues that most interests prosecutor Delgado.

But the near horizon does not explain why Dolores Delgado has stepped aside, facilitated by her ability to name -practically it can be said like that, name- her successor, Alvaro Garciathe man who has held the reins of the FGE on a day-to-day basis during the two years and five months of Delgado’s administration.

The pieces on the board were placed consecutively.

The renewal with CGPJ and the TC

The first was already in place for a long time:to the demand of the Popular Party for the resignation of Dolores Delgado to agree on the renewal of the Supreme Court and the General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ).

But the “profitability & rdquor; certain of the resignation to pave the way for that pact does not explain the underlying reason or motives. There is a background and several derivatives. The Government-PP pact on the CGPJ and the renewal of the Constitutional Court, is one of the derivatives.

In a story that is of interest, the journalist Miguel Hernández writes in the digital newspaper Informed Sources “the hypothesis that Delgado only had the option of resigning so that they would not ‘tighten’ him judicially with the ‘Villarejo case and banish doubts about his involvement in one of the pieces of this legal case & rdquor ;.

Whatever the evolution of that procedure, part four, which and which involves Villarejo and the shipping businessman Perez Maura, and in which Delgado and his partner, Baltasar Garzón, have been appointed, the best thing is to take Delgado out of the FGE. This piece investigates possible illicit acts in relation to the extradition, from the National High Court, of a former Guatemalan government official who, in turn, was a client of the so-called Ilocad Baltasar Garzón Abogados law firm.

Fiscal sources consulted point to some audios in which references appear to the then prosecutor of the National High Court, Delgado, who already from the Ministry of Justice, expressed her protest to the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office for the fact that she was not considered “harmed & rdquor ;

piece number 4

And look where, on July 15, the judge in charge of the almost thirty pieces of the Tandem-Villarejo caseissued an order in which the investigative proceedings were extended for another six months of piece number 4, Pit.

But note that after listing the measures proposed by the Anticorruption Prosecutor, as his thing, ex officio, without anyone requesting it, Manuel Garcia Castellonhead of the investigating court number 6 of the National Court, offers Dolores Delgado to appear in Pérez Maura’s piece as “damaged & rdquor;

“In addition to these inquiries by the prosecutor, having reviewed the proceedings, this magistrate understands that the transcribed audios contain explicit references by Mr. Villarejo to a possible participation in the facts investigated in this piece [Pit] of Dona Dolores Delgado, who today holds the position of Attorney General of the State and who at that time was a prosecutor of the National High Court, which could constitute a crime against honor as they are demonstrations that, because they are linked to the exercise of his position, could be susceptible to fit in the type of article 215.1 of the Penal Code [ delito de calumnias e injurias]”

And he adds: “After examining the actions, it has been possible to verify by this instructor that the opportune offer of shares to the injured person to the person referred to in the previous paragraph was not made at the time, so Mrs. Dolores Delgado should be summoned. in such a condition.

Could Judge García Castellón have issued this order that extends the proceedings as requested by the Prosecutor’s Office and other parties without consulting in particular, as he records, the prosecutors about the offer of appearance to Dolores Delgado?

One thing is that it does not leave a trace on the car of said consultation, but another is that it has not been done. Because the judge is saying that it was necessary to consider “impaired & rdquor; to Dolores Delgado and offer her shares “at the right time.”

“The judge consulted with the chief prosecutor of the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor Alejandro Luzón on a matter of such relevance since, as the order says, `at the time’ the prosecutors –Miguel Serrano and Ignacio Stampa- They did not describe Delgado as harmed and decided that only after deepening the investigation of this piece would the measures be adopted with knowledge of the facts. That this turn is made ex officio, highlighting in the first person what a judge does who usually consults almost all of them with the prosecutors, is not credible & rdquor ;, a source who knows García Castellón very closely, to Luzón, tells El Periódico de Catalunya already Delgado. “What’s more, Delgado had to be perfectly informed -and directly- that this resolution was about to fall & rdquor ;, adds the source.

The car of June 2019

Luzón, for her part, maintained that Dolores Delgado had no connection with the investigative proceedings. At the meeting of the Fiscal Council, in which the Stampa case (the non-concession of the fixed position to which he aspired in Anticorruption as a maneuver to remove the prosecutor who had initiated the proceedings in 2017 from the case), on November 27, 2021, according to the minutes to which this newspaper has had access, the then “Attorney General of the State asks Luzon if in that case [Tándem] and piece [número 4 o Pit] In relation to the State Attorney General, there is criminal content and what is the content of the order dated June 5, 2019 & rdquor ;. Next, “Mr. Luzón states that he does not remember the content of said order, he recalls that in May 2019 a brief was presented by the Prosecutor’s Office and that on that same date a press release was made in which he explained the actions of the Prosecutor’s Office and that in that note there was a last paragraph in which it was stated that the then Minister of Justice had no relationship with the investigation & rdquor ;.

Well, now it seems that this is not the case, that Dolores Delgado had some relationship with the facts investigated to the point that the investigating judge discovers a “hole & rdquor; (from three years ago!, that is, from 2019) and offers Delgado to appear as “damaged & rdquor; & mldr; without exchanging opinions with those who know the case, that is, the prosecutors. and all of it four days after announcing the resignation of the State Attorney General.

In short: here lie important elements in the “succession & rdquor; by Dolores Delgado that has been slowly cooking for over a month.

In 2018, Dolores Delgado suffered the first collateral casualty in the Tándem-Villarejo case. When she had already named her number two, andJudge Fernando Andreu, as Secretary of State for Justice, he had to give up his friend. the minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska, aware of the recordings of Villarejo with Andreu, alerted Pedro Sánchez and the appointment was left in the lurch. The recordings took time to emerge but finally some of them have come to the surface.

Is Baltasar Garzón, Delgado’s partner, going to be the only one that Villarejo was not going to record all those years of symbiotic police and judicial life?

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