It is the year 2015. It is lunch time. At the door of the Sala de Despiece restaurant, on Calle de Ponzano in Madrid, a bulky man approaches this journalist. He is ‘El Gordo’. Enrique Garcia Castanostill chief commissioner of the Central Unit of Operational Support (UCAO) of the Police.
-I come from El Doble, where Madrid’s canes are best thrown, and I’ve seen you. How are you?
-Well, and you?
-A lot of fuss.
-Hey, what is this montage of the account Xavier Trias?
– Well, the information, believe me, is good.
-It’s a montage, Enrique. So that the bank has come out to say that the code has nothing to do with that of the Union de Banques Suisses!
-Yeah, yeah, there’s been a problem, I can’t tell you now. We will talk.
the recordings
The recording of the meeting between the police Jose Manuel Villarejo, Joseph Louis Oliverathe judge of the National High Court Fernando Andrew and the director of Atresmedia, Mauricio Casals, published by the digital newspaper ‘El Món’, has updated one of the “great pieces” poisoning of the Ministry of the Interior and the National Police in the so-called ‘Operation Catalonia’.
This is a meal that takes place in the Galician restaurant Alabaster, in Madrid’s Montalbán street, on November 4, 2014. Days before, on October 28 and 29, the newspaper ‘El Mundo’, the usual mail of intoxication , has published that the mayor of Barcelona has an account in the Geneva bank Union of Swiss Banks. When Trias denies the information, the journalists go to the office of the deputy operational director of the Police, who shows them an alleged report from Paris, in French, with the account number 651162-3445.954.
In response to Trias, the newspaper published the quoted number on the front page the following day in thick characters. You didn’t want broth, so have two cups!
A Xavier Trias and his lawyer, Xavier Meleroit will take them a few days to get a certificate from the Union de Banques Suisses.
“It was very difficult to get it. She already had the experience of a previous lawsuit with Arthur More. Talk to lombard odier. But they told me that they couldn’t issue any certificate because it meant a knock-on effect for politicians and personalities. But at Union de Banques Suisses we got it & rdquor ;, Melero reminds this newspaper.
the fake account
The leak, which is clear from the recording at the Alabaster restaurant on November 4, has been made by García Castaño. ‘El Gordo’ is the one who facilitates the “news.”
You have to put the facts in their sequence. Because the Minister of the Interior, Jorge Fernandez Diazand his number two, the Secretary of State for Security, Paco Martinez, is on the “track & rdquor; of that ghost account.
On October 16, 2014, twelve days before the publication of the false account in ‘El Mundo’, Minister Fernández Díaz received in his office the then director of the Anti-Frau Office of Catalonia (OAC), Daniel of Alfonso.
“What do you think of Xavi Trias in this whole process?”, asks Fernández Díaz. “I have received information, but I have not verified it. I’m telling you, I wasn’t going to tell you. But I have been told that Xavier Trias has an account abroad with around €12 million. And a brother of his too & rdquor ;, responds the director of the OAC.
“And his brother & rdquor ;, says the minister. “Of 20 million& rdquor ;, De Alfonso points out. “I had… I know & rdquor ;, adds Fernández Díaz.
The “coffee review”
“That’s what I know, but I don’t have any data to prove it. That’s a coffee comment, tell me about it. It’s just that, Minister, I don’t know if what they want is to destroy me or not, I get a comment like that and I either give it to me in writing or I don’t investigate anything. Now I don’t know if it will coincide with this…”, explains the director of Antifrau.
It is that it is circulating in restricted environments& rdquor ;, adds Jorge Fernández Díaz.
In another part of the conversation, Fernández Díaz explains the meaning of the news leaks to the media.
“I say this because many times, when you publish it, you generate a media pressure that in the end you make things that they would not have taken interest in, they take it & rdquor ;.
filtration
The known recording now seems to indicate that ‘El Gordo’ rushed to leak the news. And this can be deduced from the conversation in which the former commissioner Jose Manuel Villarejo explains to Judge Andreu and the diners that ‘El Gordo’ first and Pino later “sold him the donkey” to the journalists, anxious to answer Trias, about an absurd account number, which came on a piece of paper from France.
The Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office He did not buy the motorcycle from the false account and the topic was archived.
But why with the proof of the Union of Swiss Banksamong others, was the setup against the then mayor of Barcelona not investigated?
Trias filed a complaint against Fernández Díaz in the Second Chamber of the Supreme Court. The first speaker, in the Admissions Room, it was said, would be Manuel Marchena, but then that news was corrected. The appointed rapporteur was Joseph Manuel Maza. Subsequently, Maza’s appointment as state attorney general led the presentation to Andres Martinez Arrieta.
there was no crime
The prosecutor Antolin Herrero considered that the conversation between Fernández Díaz and De Alfonso did not contain criminal elements.
And the Admission Chamber, states in its order: “We must conclude by highlighting the clear difference between the assessment that they could deserve, in the personal opinion of those who listen to the content of said conversations, certain expressions, comments and even expectations expressed by two persons responsible for the investigative activity in the course of some private conversations, since they are debatable in the field of investigation. strictly political criticism they might seem, including some unwelcome allusions for third parties related to the development of investigations and their general context, and the commission of true crimes, typified as such in our legislation & rdquor ;.
The order of the Admissions Room (made up of Marchena, Mace, Michael Colmenero, Ana Ferrer Y Andres Palomo) ends with a toast to the sun.
the complaints
And it is that this file does not prevent a new assessment of the Supreme Court as a result of the already advanced investigation of the Trias complaint that is being followed in the investigating court number 16 of Madrid against the journalists who attributed the false account to him.
What Eugene Pinealready former number two of the Police, insists that Trías’ account is true, he files a complaint against the journalists and against him.
Precisely, the instruction in that court, in charge of the judge Joseph Emilio Coronadosits on the bench, not without harshness, to the journalists Edward Inda Y Esteban Urreiztietaauthors of the two reports.
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When the oral trial is held, Pino accepts his right not to declare. And the judge sees no reason to convict.
“No one wanted to investigate. Because the clues were there,” he says. Xavier Melero.