Marlaska relates Pérez de los Cobos to the lack of control of funds reserved in Kitchen after TS annulled his dismissal

The PP presses him to resign after the Supreme Court ruling that reinstates the colonel and asks about the apartments bought by María Gámez

MADRID, 29 Mar. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, has related this Wednesday the loss of confidence in Colonel Diego Pérez de los Cobos, referring to the stage in which he was a high position in this portfolio, with the PP in the Government, and he did not it exercised "due control" over reserved funds, a stage in which it was "allowed to destroy evidence".

In the control session with the Government, the PP deputy Ana Vázquez has asked it, after annulling the dismissal by the Supreme Court, to reinstate Colonel Diego Pérez de los Cobos as head of the Civil Guard Command in Madrid, a position he held He was dismissed in 2020, when the possible relationship between Covid-19 infections and the 8-M demonstration was being investigated.

"The lack of trust remains," Marlaska said in response to Vázquez, to whom he asked directly: "Would you have confidence in those people who managed the reserved funds?"

Immediately afterwards, the minister alluded to the declassification of documents at the request of the National Court in the framework of the investigation into 'Kitchen' for the allegedly vigilante device to steal documentation from former PP treasurer Luis Bárcenas, a case for which Pérez de Los Cobos testified in court and for which ex-minister Jorge Fernández Díaz and his 'number two', Francisco Martínez, are being prosecuted.

Specifically, Pérez de los Cobos assured as a witness that he was unaware of the use of funds reserved in 'Kitchen' because his control was merely accounting and he did not know the specific details of who was paid. The colonel also testified in the trial in the Supreme Court in which the leaders of the 'procés' were sentenced.

The colonel was director of Coordination and Studies in the Secretary of State for Security, a position that also earned him to assume the coordination of the police device in the 1-O referendum and under the application of article 155.

In his defense that he maintains the loss of confidence in Pérez de los Cobos despite the Supreme Court ruling, Grande-Marlaska has avoided mentioning the investigation into 8-M to focus on the management of reserved funds.

"They managed it without due control, they had to be declassified at the request of the judicial authority and it is in a file, and with that non-control of the reserved funds they allowed it to be used to destroy evidence so that the PP could hide its responsibility," has said.

"It is in this type of people that this Minister of the Interior has not had, does not have and will not have confidence," added Grande-Marlaska in response to the PP, which has made the minister ugly for "annihilating" Pérez de Pérez professionally. the Cobos with his dismissal and rejecting his promotion to general 14 times.

For this reason, Vázquez has maintained that Grande-Marlaska -- "a snitch with stripes" and a "failed, arbitrary, condemned" minister -- is "morally unfit" to even return to the judicial career.

In her speech, the PP spokeswoman once again asked about the apartments that the resigned director of the Civil Guard, María Gámez, bought, alluding to the accusation of her husband and the tracking of the money supposedly stolen from the ERE of Andalusia.

"We do not use the Civil Guard, not like the previous director of the Civil Guard who ordered an investigation into the 'Barracks case' to cease," Grande-Marlaska replied, reiterating that Gámez left office out of "democratic decency", something that In his opinion, the PP does not have.

As an example of the latter, the minister has mentioned the president of the PP of the Balearic Islands, Marga Prohens, for her meal with José María Rodríguez, convicted of corruption, a case in which the "popular" leader acknowledged that she agreed with her party at a national level national in that "it was not the best decision", adding that "there was no talk of lists".