UCO interrupted a conversation between two collaborators with the prosecutor to support his accusation

The exchange between the State Prosecutor’s lawyers and UCO agents who investigated the alleged disclosure of secrets brought to light several controversial actions carried out by the Civil Guard. One is to exclude several messages within the exchange they used to support their thesis. In one of their reports, the agents concluded that the chief collaborator of the Public Prosecutor, Diego Villafañe, had alluded to an alleged professional promotion of the Madrid Regional Prosecutor, Pilar Rodríguez, the accused in the case, on the night of the events under investigation.

In the agents’ account, the person in charge of the technical secretariat of the prosecutor’s office, Diego Villafañe, wrote to Rodriguez: “You are taking good care of yourself because I have already told you that we will need you as much as possible.” According to the guards, the prosecutor responded: “Aye…what are you thinking about?” His interlocutor added: “It’s all good.”

UCO stated that Pilar Rodriguez’s cooperation in the alleged crime could be the result of a promotion by decision of her superiors. However, the conversation was not as UCO printed. During the trial, lawyer Consuelo Torres showed the ones that the UCO had removed.

State’s Attorney Consuelo Castro used the transcript to ask the UCO whether they continued to plead that they were talking about professional issues, which Colonel Antonio Pallas repeatedly insisted they did, and that if he did not include it it was for “privacy reasons.”