The magistrate has on his table a voluminous dossier in which the content of the messages that Alejandro Luzón does not want to investigate is analyzed.
Judge Rubén Rus Vela has been in power since May a voluminous report prepared by the Support Unit of the Tax Agency in which the content of the emails from the Ministry of Finance headed by the then minister is analyzed Christopher Montoro that the head of Anti-Corruption, Alejandro Luzonhas ordered prosecutor Carmen García Cerdá not to investigate, according to what legal sources inform this editorial office.
The document was prepared by members of the Support Unit of the Tax Agency of the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office for the judge, and contains indicative conclusions about the content of the messages that were delivered by the Ministry of Finance and the Tax Agency to those responsible for the investigations, the aforementioned sources continue.
The Court avoided directly entrusting the Treasury officials with the report on the emails because the suspects in the leaks were senior officials of the Ministry and the Tax Agency. That is why he commissioned the dossier to Support Unit of the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Officewho completed the assignment seven months ago.
Five years secret
The head of the Investigative Court number 2 of Tarragona has kept a secret for five years a case in which it is investigated whether the owners of the Economic Team office, which the former Minister of Finance Cristóbal Montoro founded in 2006, They used their influence in the Ministry of Finance for the benefit of its clients.
As this newspaper announced, among the messages is one sent in February 2015 by the former Cristóbal Montoro’s chief of staff, Felipe Martínez Rico, addressed to a recipient he identifies as “minister” in which he provides confidential tax data of Podemos co-founder Juan Carlos Monedero, who days before had been forced to pay 200,000 euros to the Treasury to avoid being charged with a tax crime.
Felipe Martínez Rico is the brother of Ricardo Martínez Rico, who was also Montoro’s chief of staff and who is accused in the Tarragona case. They also remain investigated the managing partners of Equipo Economico Manuel de Vicente-Tutor and Salvador Ruiz Gallud, who directed the Tax Agency between 2001 and 2004.
Purse Personation
Juan Carlos Monedero has already requested his appearance in the procedure from Judge Rus Vela, who will have to decide if he accepts that the former leader of Podemos be considered harmed due to the leak of their Treasury data.
The messages also refer, as sources in the case explain to this newspaper, to public figures such as the former vice president of the PP Government. Rodrigo Rato and the former president of the Community of Madrid Esperanza Aguirre. The latter has demanded that the content of the messages, which the Court of Tarragona has in its possession, be investigated.
File to the prosecutor
However, the head of Anti-Corruption has promoted the opening of a file for very serious misconduct against García Cerdá, whom he accuses of having disobeyed his order of not investigating a possible crime of revealing secrets in the content of the messages delivered by the Ministry of Finance and the Tax Agency to the Court. If the accusation is confirmed, the prosecutor could be removed from Anti-Corruption or even expelled from the race.
The matter has reached the Fiscal Council, so the State Attorney General, Álvaro García Ortiz, must rule on the Alejandro Luzón’s decision to take part of the investigation away from the prosecutor in charge of the investigations against the firm that Montoro founded in 2006.
Neither those investigated in the case nor Montoro himself, who claims to have left Equipo Economico in 2008, has answered the questions posed by this newspaper.