After listening to the statements of the former commissioner José Manuel Villarejo and the two defendants in the complaint filed by the former president of Barça Sandro Rosell for ‘Operation Catalonia’, the judge Hermenegildo Barrera He addressed the parties to ask about the next step to take. The accusation made by the businessman considers it essential that the National Court send to the Investigating Court number 13 of Madrid the audios in which the main iaccused talks about Rosell, as well as his agendas and what he calls “intelligence briefing notes” that he would have written between 2012 and 2016.
In the brief requesting proceedings, to which EL PERIÓDICO DE CATALUNYA has had access, Rosell’s lawyer, Paul Molinsasks the magistrate to request from the National Court almost twenty audio recordings of Villarejo with other police officers and other people such as the former president of the Catalan PP and now a senator, Alicia Sanchez-Camacho. In that conversation, which takes place at the request of the former general secretary of the PP Maria Dolores de CospedalCatalan politics is heard giving Villarejo several names, including Rosell, whose family he says was the founder of the Democratic Convergence of Catalonia together with the Pujols and the Sumarroca.
The lawyer also wants the State Attorney General’s Office to “report about how many investigations have been opened by any representative of the public ministry against Sandro Rosell between 2012 and 2017“. The cause for which the businessman spent two years in prison until the trial was held, in which he was acquitted, originated as a result of a letter rogatory from the United States in which he was mentioned and a complaint from the Prosecutor’s Office of the National Court for alleged corruption in sport.
In the brief requesting proceedings, the accusation brought by Rosell considers that before the judge both Villarejo as Antonio Giménez Raso lied to the truth, to “dissociate themselves from the operation created against Sandro Rosell”, specifically in relation to Jose Luis Perez Clemente “the police ‘informer’ who provided numerous mendacious evidence that later fed into the police reports” of the UDEF against the businessman, according to the accusation.
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In this sense, he also requests that Pérez Clemente be required to provide the full content of the conversations he published on his blog. Rosell’s representation maintains that, despite what was stated by gimenez satin There are many audios that prove that he met with him. It points out that Pérez, “in addition to suffering from a mental disorder that has been included in judicial resolutions provided with the complaint, acted out of spite against Rosell and several directors of the Barcelona Football Club”, because one of them “had had an intimate relationship with his wife or partner”.
He also requests that a witness statement be taken at the Commissioner Fernando Guerrero, because on May 23, 2017, he called Pérez to tell him that his “efforts had not been in vain.” With his appearance, the prosecution intends to know “the real reasons why the police command informed Pérez” and “the reasons for the gratitude that he wanted to express with the call.”