The Audiencia de Madrid begins 2023 pending 'El Pequeño Nicolás' and Villarejo

Former minister Rodrigo Rato and businessman Javier López Madrid are waiting for a date to be set for their trials

MADRID, 1 Ene. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The Provincial Court of Madrid begins 2023 pending 'El Pequeño Nicolás' and the retired commissioner José Manuel Villarejo. The first will sit on the bench at the beginning of February, this time accused of having had access to "confidential information" from the Police; the second will appear as a witness on January 31 at a trial on wiretapping in the Central Unit for Specialized and Violent Crime.

The young man and the commissioner already have a scheduled trial date. The same does not happen with the former Minister of Economy Rodrigo Rato - pending the hearing on the origin of his assets - or the businessman Javier López Madrid - awaiting trial for alleged threats to Dr. Elisa Pinto -.

Legal sources consulted by Europa Press confirm that the first of the trials in the Madrid Court to be held this year will take place on January 31, February 1, 2 and 3.

Villarejo will have to appear as a witness in a case that focuses on Ali Shan and Ijaz Ahmad, who were hired by the General Directorate of Police to participate in the investigation carried out by the Central Unit for Specialized and Violent Crime to translate telephone conversations intercepted in the framework of an investigation directed by the Investigating Court number 5 of Fuenlabrada (Madrid).

The businessman Harischandra Tarachand Varma, one of those investigated in said procedure and who had had several conversations tapped, denounced in April 2014 before Internal Affairs that the translators had extorted him.

According to the letter from the Public Prosecutor's Office, they offered him information about the case in exchange for an initial payment of 10,000 euros that would increase and threatened to "influence him against" if he did not agree.

The second of the trials will take place from February 6 to 13. "El Pequeño Nicolás" is accused of having accessed "on several occasions" "information of a confidential nature belonging to the Ministry of the Interior that was in the police databases." It will be the fifth trial faced by the young man, who has already been convicted in three other cases and acquitted in one.

The Prosecutor's Office asks for him nine years and nine months in prison for integration into a criminal group, a continued crime of discovery and disclosure of secrets and violation of secrets as an inducer and a crime of active bribery. The State Attorney's Office, which decided to withdraw, will not participate in this procedure.

Those days will also sit in the dock for the accused the former Security coordinator of the Madrid City Council, Emilio García-Grande, the civil guard Francisco Javier Sánchez López, the municipal police officers Jorge González Hormigos and Felipe Gallego Santos, and the municipal employee Jose Luis Gonzalez Cervera.

According to the investigation, the 'modus operandi' "was always the same": Gómez Iglesias provided one or more of those investigated with vehicle registration plates, telephone lines or identification numbers. "Thereupon, these, taking advantage of their status as agents of the Municipal Police Corps of the Madrid City Council, proceeded to extract the required information from said bases and provided it to Francisco Nicolás in exchange for promises and financial remuneration," said the judge when he process.

On the sidelines, Villarejo is waiting for the Madrid Court to set a date for the trial in which the Prosecutor's Office asks him for a sentence of 13 years and two months in jail for the alleged threats and coercion that "repeatedly" and "insistently" they made doctor Elisa Pinto so that she would not denounce the businessman Javier López Madrid, who will also sit in the dock of the accused.

The Public Ministry, in addition, requests both compensation of 6,000 euros for Pinto for moral damages, plus 1,150 euros for injuries. In addition, he demands that Villarejo and López Madrid be prohibited from approaching Pinto, the workplace or all the places that the doctor frequents for 9 years and 10 months.

It was last October when the head of the Investigating Court Number 39 of Madrid agreed to send the businessman and the retired commissioner to trial for alleged crimes of harassment, threats and injuries with a dangerous instrument in the case of Dr. Elisa Pinto.

In addition, it is pending that the Madrid Court set a date for the trial against the former Minister of Economy Rodrigo Rato for alleged crimes against the Public Treasury, money laundering and corruption in business, within the framework of the case on the alleged illegal origin of his heritage.

According to the result of the investigation, since 1999 Rato has maintained a hidden patrimony from the Public Treasury through various companies with which he would have carried out continuous financial investment activities through bank accounts in the Bahamas, Switzerland, Monaco, Luxembourg and the United Kingdom, among others. other places.

The Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office initially requests 70 years in prison for the former Minister of Economy for defrauding more than 8 million euros.