The defense of the former head of the UCAO asks that the entire 'Villarejo case' be temporarily archived after suffering a stroke

He alleges that he suffers from a "supervening mental incapacity" that would make him incompetent

MADRID, 9 Jun. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The defense of the former head of the Central Operational Support Unit (UCAO) of the National Police, Enrique García Castaño, has asked the judge of the National Court investigating the 'Villarejo case' to temporarily file all the lines of investigation in which he appears as accused or prosecuted, due to the stroke he suffered on May 1.

In a brief on Wednesday, to which Europa Press has had access, the defense requests the head of the Central Court of Instruction Number 6, Manuel García Castellón, the provisional dismissal of the separate piece number 9, where the alleged illicit orders of BBVA are investigated to Commissioner José Manuel Villarejo, for "medical reasons", detailing that he suffers from a "supervening mental incapacity" that would make him unimpeachable.

According to the legal sources consulted by this news agency, García Castaño's lawyer has made the same request in each of the separate pieces of 'Tándem' to which he is attached.

In addition to the so-called 'BBVA piece', García Castaño is charged in the main piece, where the Villarejo business group (CENYT) is investigated as a criminal organization, money laundering crimes and the 'King' project, relating to some jobs in Equatorial Guinea.

The former head of the UCAO has already been prosecuted for piece 21, on the alleged espionage commissioned by Repsol and Caixabank against the then president of Sacyr, Luis del Rivero; 'Kitchen', about the alleged espionage of former PP treasurer Luis Bárcenas; and 'Marbella', for the investigations against a businessman from Marbella.

He was also being tried for the pieces 'Iron' and 'Land', referring respectively to alleged espionage work against a law firm and against individuals in the framework of a family dispute over the inheritance of the owner of the luxury development La Finca ( Madrid).

However, on May 24, the court that directs this first trial for 'Tándem' agreed to suspend it for García Castaño, due to his state of health, after a forensic doctor from the National High Court issued a report that accredited his current seriousness. and explain that it will not be possible to determine the definitive consequences of the stroke for another six months.

The Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office requests that the former head of the Central Operational Support Unit be sentenced to 87 years in prison by 'Iron' and 'Land' for allegedly giving Villarejo data from police databases for his private investigations.

García Castaño is one of the more than thirty defendants who sit on the bench in the trial for 'Tándem', where the pieces 'Iron', 'Land' and 'Pintor' of the macro-cause on Villarejo's private businesses are judged, for whom the Public Ministry asks for 109 years in prison.