Podemos withdraws its accusation from various lines of investigation of the Villarejo case but remains in Kitchen or BBVA

He defends his work and ensures that it has "allowed us to refine and clarify very relevant facts"

MADRID, 9 Dic. (EUROPA PRESS) -

Podemos has decided to withdraw as a popular accusation from at least seven different lines of investigation of the 'Tándem' macro-cause, in which the judge of the National Court Manuel García Castellón investigates the many and varied private orders that the now retired commissioner José Manuel Villarejo would have executed while active.

All in all, the purple formation will continue to be represented in key pieces such as the one related to 'Operation Kitchen', the parapolice espionage supposedly orchestrated from the Ministry of the Interior, with police resources and reserved funds, against the former treasurer of the PP Luis Bárcenas or in the piece that investigates BBVA's contracts with CENYT, the Villarejo business group.

The formation led by Ione Belarra presented between December 1 and 2 a series of documents before the head of the Central Court of Instruction Number 6, Manuel García Castellón, who they asked to keep them by sections as an accusation desisting from the exercise of the action penal.

Specifically, Podemos has decided not to continue exercising the accusation in the piece in which the various commissions that Iberdrola would have made to Villarejo since 2004 are investigated; in which he delved into the investigation that Villarejo carried out on the Marbella businessman Felipe Gómez Zotano using restricted access databases or in another in which an assignment related to a family inheritance of a La Rioja company was investigated.

The match will not continue in piece number 12, known as the 'July Project', about an alleged commission from Grupo Planeta to Villarejo to investigate whether there was bribery to the independent arbitrator who participated in the arbitration process with Kiss FM. In fact, the formation has requested to annul its indictment.

Thus, Podemos has desisted from continuing to prosecute the piece that deals with the alleged assignment of the businessman Javier López Madrid to Villarejo to harass Dr. María Elisa Pinto.

In addition, the formation has departed from the line of investigation on the persecution of which the businessman Javier Pérez Dolset would have been a victim and on the piece related to the alleged commission to spy on the businessman Joaquín Molpeceres in relation to a bankruptcy.

The purple party defends in the briefs presented to the AN that it has promoted from the beginning the investigation of these "serious criminal behaviors allegedly committed by a police plot, as well as by what has been commonly known as the 'patriotic police'". Along these lines, he defends his role when it comes to persecuting the alleged "collaborators and clients" of that plot.

"The performance of this popular accusation has allowed to purify and clarify very relevant facts for the good end of the investigation. Given the current state of the file, there are already persons in this separate piece both the public accusation represented by the Public Prosecutor, who has as a mission to promote the action of justice in defense of legality, the rights of citizens and the public interest protected by law, as well as private accusations in defense of the rights of the alleged victims", concludes Podemos.