Judge Santiago Pedraz investigates the alleged parapolice system allegedly involving the former MEP Miguel Urban in an alleged sale of 40 kilos of cocaine to finance Podemosparty of which he was the founder.
In fact, Pedraz summoned the politician to testify. However, he rejected his request to be considered a victim of the appeal. patriotic fonta group of National Police agents who had conspired to boycott Podemos then Mariano Rajoy He was president of the government.
All this appears in the new documentation to which EL ESPAÑOL has had access. In this document, the judge refuses to Urbán the exercise of private accusation (that exercised by those who have been harmed by a crime).
Because? Because he considers that the facts that Urban denounces —having been the subject of an investigation in 2016 by the Anti-drug prosecution after an alleged plot against him – have “no connection” with the events that Pedraz is investigating, the alleged illegal maneuvers of patriotic font against Podemos.
Today, despite this, Pedraz has requested from the UDYCO (Unit against Crime and Organized Crime of the National Police) all “internal working documents, notes and messages contained in its files” regarding the call. Operation Cardinalthe name given to the alleged plot against the former MEP.
However, as EL ESPAÑOL has already revealed, the anti-drug prosecution sent the judge documents proving that, when an agent searched for Urban’s name in a police database, in 2016, an investigation was opened, within the Public Ministry, into the alleged sale of drugs.
This official, interviewed by Pedraz, declared that he regularly typed the name of the politician, on orders from his superiors.
He also sought data on Pablo Iglesiasfounder of Podemos and first secretary general of the party, because he is a person linked to Urbán.
On the other hand, up to three witnesses confirmed the veracity of the events reported by a police confidant to the commissioner at the time. Jose Luis Oliverawho was director of the Counter-Terrorism and Organized Crime Intelligence Center (CITCO).
CITCO’s letter to Anti-Drug.
CITCO sent its complaint to the anti-drug prosecution, which in fact opened an investigation into what was reported. He has kept it active ever since on January 25, 2016, the date on which it was initiated, until July 20 of the same year.
On May 23, 2016, that is to sayI entered this period— It was at this time that the aforementioned search, by an agent, of the names of Iglesias and Urban in police databases took place.
As this official stated, this action took place within the framework of the procedure opened by Antidrugs and in a protocol manner, ordered by his superiors and without any intention of boycotting Podemos or its leaders.
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