Anti-corruption refuses to register the office of 'Tito Berni' in Congress but supports seizing his devices

MADRID, 2 Mar. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office has opposed carrying out a search of the office of former socialist deputy Juan Bernardo Fuentes Curbelo, alias 'Tito Berni', in Congress, as claimed by the Police, but it has supported the seizure of his electronic devices for analysis, within the framework of the investigations into the 'Mediator case'.

In a letter, to which Europa Press has had access, the prosecutor Jaime Serrano-Jover responds to the request made by the Technological Crimes Unit of the National Police to the head of the Investigating Court Number 4 of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Ángeles Lorenzo -Cáceres, for "unrestricted and exclusive access to the office of the Congress of Deputies assigned to the person investigated."

"Assessing article 66.3 of the Spanish Constitution, which provides that the Cortes Generales are inviolable, the Public Ministry cannot rule in favor of what was requested in the preceding official letter," he says.

However, "with the aim of complying with the purpose pursued by the investigation", it proposes "to direct an official letter to the General Secretariat of the Congress of Deputies" to authorize police access, "with the provisions and precautions that they deem appropriate". , "for the delivery and intervention of computer terminals or data and information storage devices, documents or any other effects belonging to the person investigated."

It also supports that, "once the computer equipment is in the possession of the acting agents", they "carry out the practice of the procedures that are included in the previous police official letter, authorizing, even, the change of access codes with the preventions logical and appropriate to this measure".