The popular accusation in the case of Acció Cultural del País Valencià (ACPV) asked the investigating judge for a confrontation between former councilor Salomé Pradas and former regional secretary José Manuel Cuenca, chief of staff of Carlos Mazón. The ACPV’s lawyer, Manolo Mata, denounces “serious inaccuracies” in Cuenca’s two testimonies before the judge, particularly regarding the orders that Pradas claimed to have received from Cuenca not to disturb Mazón during the meal at the El Ventorro restaurant. The chief of staff denied these orders
The prosecution’s brief, to which this newspaper had access, requests that an agreement be reached to proceed with a confrontation between the witness José Manuel Cuenca and the accused Salomé Pradas “on the facts and circumstances of interest for the procedure which could be revealed by the investigator, the public prosecutor and the parties, at the time of their detention”.
“Particularly relevant,” asserts the popular accusation, “is the contradiction, highlighted after the witness’s statement contradicting the brutal statements of the then Minister of Justice and Interior, Salomé Pradas, under investigation, regarding the fact that the witness was informed that she should not disturb the President and that all the information she wanted to convey to him must pass through her person.”
It also requests that the General Directorate of Information and Communication Technologies be required to provide a report on the “replacement process” of José Manuel Cuenca’s business phone, in which his WhatsApp messages were deleted. Cuenca partially opened up during his last testimony to authorize, if it was technically possible, to recover the messages.
The ACPV requests that the report specify in any case which technician was responsible for replacing the telephone terminal and explain the “plausibility” that during the process, “a year of WhatsApp messages, photographs and documents” had “disappeared”, as the witness declared.
The role of the Generalitat Prosecutor’s Office
The popular accusation led by Compromís coincides with this diligence and also with the request to the judge to investigate the alleged role of the Generalitat Prosecutor’s Office in the orders received by Salomé Pradas, in the middle of a meeting of the Integrated Operational Coordination Center (Cecopi) on the possibility of confinement by the chief of staff of Carlos Mazón.
José Manuel Cuenca assured the judge, in his second testimony on December 12, that he had limited himself to asking the regional secretary of the Presidency, Cayetano García Ramírez, for the opinion of the legal profession.
Compromís and the ACPV took up the challenge and raised with the judge the possibility that the Lawyers’ Office would be required to provide a report indicating whether García Ramírez requested an evaluation, intervention or legal decision “with regard to the measures to be adapted” in the dana.
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