The accusation of ‘Parra de Gens’ asks the judge to investigate the mediation of socialist Rafael Pineda on behalf of the mayor

This petition arrives at the desk of Judge José Ignacio Villaplana after this newspaper published last week that the Civil Guard, in one of the reports submitted in Pineda caseit is reported that the man who was director of Lipasam during Sánchez Montserrin’s tenure as mayor bragged that he was “breaking his neck” to save the socialist mayor of Gaines from the case related to irregularities in the organization of the livestock fair.

It happens at a crucial moment in the case. In September 2024, the investigating judge in the Parra case issued an indictment against the current mayor of this municipality, a former first mayor and nine other municipal officials who were part of various management boards of the Advisory Council, a technical architect of the municipality, an auditor, directors of several beneficiary entities and Four former older brothers of the Rossio Fraternity From the city. In the aforementioned decision, the judge excluded the former president of the regional council, Fernando Rodriguez Villalobos, and other former senior officials of the regional institution.

A year later Public Prosecutor’s Office He asked to bring the case because he did not see any crimes in the actions of Garrido and the other investigators, while the accusation brought by the two former consultants of Imagines, the municipal group that reported the events, asks for twenty years in prison for the socialist mayor. It is up to the judge to decide whether to close the case or order an oral trial.

Now, as this newspaper reported, it is known that Civil Guard agents, after hearing about a criminal organization dedicated to money laundering linked to drug trafficking, decided that Pineda used the political “influences” of his position Head of the Cabinet of the government delegation in Andalusia Edited by Romualdo Garrido. In these wiretaps there are numerous conversations between Pineda and a major drug trafficker about the efforts and services the socialist provided to this investigator.

Among these services is Pineda’s mediation with Mayor Gaines to try to speed up the reopening A pharmaceutical company for drinks and foods In the municipality of Seville, which was achieved in October 2024. To this end, the two socialists held several meetings. The holes reveal the cordial relationship between the Socialist officials, but also reveal everything that Pedro Fernández’s chief of staff did to the Gens advisor in the Parra de Gens case, going so far as to admit that he left “a lot of hair in the cat’s mouth for him.”

But there were more messages in those wiretapped phone calls. The head of the government delegation in Andalusia admits, according to the judicial police, that in gratitude for the services received by Garrido “He will break his face to get him out of the investigation court». Pineda had previously admitted, in another conversation, that “we are doing a good job in his work and he has been disinfecting for more than seven years,” which seems to indicate, according to the Civil Guard, that he is doing some work in this criminal proceeding against the mayor, both of whom are from the Socialist Workers Party.

Pineda uses this “mediation” to influence Romualdo Garrido to participate in opening his drug-dealing friend’s bar. Even the UCO itself, in another official document in the case investigating the urban planning process of Pineda, his wife and other accomplices in the Emfisa conspiracy, indicates that the former chief of staff of the government delegation “would have taken steps to ensure that the criminal case opened by this mayor, along with 19 other people, in the Educational Court No. 6 of Seville for the commission of an elusive crime, there is no evidence, at the moment, that it ‘was not implemented’ or had any effect.”

This was the motivation behind the reaction of José Antonio Ceres, the lawyer of the two former Imagines council members, who are carrying out the popular accusation. This Tuesday, he submitted a document requesting approval to incorporate parra de gens into the procedure. Police report This works in the case brought before the Court No. 10 of Seville to investigate the urban planning failure of Pineda and his wife by selling the Higueron plot for twice what they bought five months earlier from Emfisa, a plot of land they acquired in 2016 in a leasing procedure to the municipal housing company.

Regarding the popular accusation in the Parra de Gens case, the report said “Provides direct evidence affecting the investigation” of the case, such as the alleged “participation” of a third party on behalf of Mayor Romualdo Garrido, and therefore the conclusions of the Judicial Police of the Civil Guard can “contribute to clarifying the facts and determining the responsibility of the persons being investigated.”

Therefore, it requests the judge to approve the inclusion of the aforementioned report in this procedure, as well Necessary measures So that the Civil Guard sends the report certificate to this court, while respecting the confidentiality of the proceedings, if appropriate.

On the other hand, José Antonio Serres told ABC that he hopes this turn in the case will lead the Public Prosecutor’s Office, as guarantor of legality and public interest, to “strengthen the criminal action if there are sufficient elements to prove what was stated in the Civil Guard report and adopt a position consistent with its constitutional role.” Correct your initial decision And to continue the accusation, avoiding leaving some facts that may constitute very serious crimes in a legal limbo.