A court in Madrid will investigate the 'Operation Catalonia' by admitting a complaint by Sandro Rosell against Villarejo

MADRID, 28 Feb. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The Court of Instruction number 13 of Madrid will investigate the 'Operation Catalonia' after admitting the complaint presented by the former president of FC Barcelona Sandro Rosell against the retired commissioner José Manuel Villarejo and several police officers for the crimes of criminal organization, document falsification, accusation and denunciation false, embezzlement of public funds and illegal arrests.

Specifically, Judge Hermenigildo Alfredo Barrera indicates in an order of February 15, to which Europa Press has had access, that after receiving the report from the Public Ministry, his court is competent for this case and consequently advances that it is appropriate to take a statement to those investigated, for which reason he officiates to the Police to send him the full name and current address of the same.

In Rosell's complaint, to which Europa Press has also had access, it is pointed out that Commissioner Villarejo, the chief inspector of the UDEF Alberto Estévez, the former inspector of the National Police Corps Antonio Giménez Raso and the FBI attaché in the United States Embassy in Madrid Marc L. Varri are implicated in the issuance and presentation of "mendacious" police reports that were addressed to the Central Court of Instruction that agreed to the provisional detention of the Catalan businessman for two years. He adds that meetings were also held between members of the police forces, informers supposedly paid with reserved funds, and agents of the United States Embassy in Spain.

Rosell's legal team indicates in the complaint that although it acts against these four people, at the moment it does not go against the 'popular' senator Alicia Sánchez-Camacho, "it considers (...) that the role attributed to it in the account of facts could amply grant her the status of defendant".

And it points out that, since the defendants "had at the time of the facts the status of authorities and public officials of the Spanish State and acted in the exercise of their respective positions", it also undertakes the civil action "to claim all those economic damages and moral (...) against the defendants individuals and against the State they represented".