The ExDAO Pino says that Martín-Blas could have left his mobile "open" during his meeting with the CNI for Pequeño Nicolás

Thus, he refutes the thesis that they installed a Trojan horse in the terminal of the former head of Internal Affairs

MADRID, 23 Nov. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The former operational deputy director of the National Police Eugenio Pino pointed out this Wednesday that although it was initially believed that a policeman belonging to Internal Affairs was the one who leaked to journalists the meeting between the CNI and Internal Affairs in October 2014, later the The person in charge of that department, Marcelino Martín-Blas, told him that perhaps he left an open call on the telephone and that this could be the means by which it was recorded.

This has been explained during his statement as a witness in the trial held at the Provincial Court of Madrid against Villarejo, in which he is accused of ordering to record and broadcast a meeting between agents of the National Police and the National Intelligence Center ( CNI) on the investigation into Francisco Nicolás Gómez Iglesias, known as 'El Pequeño Nicolás'.

This version clashes head-on with what Martín-Blas said yesterday, since he said that he did not receive any calls during the meeting but that a Trojan horse was installed on his cell phone, which was what made it possible for them to record the conversation with CNI agents.

During the session on Wednesday, both Pino and the Internal Affairs inspector in charge of the investigation of Gómez Iglesias, Rubén Eladio López, testified. The interrogations have revolved mainly around the recording of that meeting, but they have derived -thanks to the interrogations of the defenses- to the quarrels that existed between Villarejo himself and Martín-Blas - staunch enemies, Pino has said-, the so-called war of commissars.

In his statement, Pino stressed, contrary to what was stated yesterday by Martín-Blas, that it was he who asked him to carry out the investigation related to 'El Pequeño Nicolás' after the then Secretary of State for Commerce Jaime García -Legaz told him that "there was a guy" who was coercing him. "He liked the aunts," recalled Pino de García-Legaz.

Although Pino initially did not want to give him the investigation, after being informed by him that a municipal police officer was involved, he relented and left him in control of the case.

In line, one of the accusations has brought up the "paternal anger" that Martín-Blas threw at Gómez Iglesias over the phone after learning that he was coercing García-Legaz. In this regard, Pino explained that the former head of Internal Affairs told him that the CNI had listened to that conversation --it is understood that by tapping the phone of one of the two interlocutors-- and that they wanted him to handle that matter because "they had lost of the hands".

Asked by several of the parties about the meeting with the CNI that took place on October 20, 2014 after the arrest of Gómez Iglesias and which was later leaked to the media, he stressed that this and other meetings were held behind his back and that he had knowledge of them later, so it is understood that he could not in any case speak about them with the commissioner José Manuel Villarejo.

Thus, he has indicated that nothing was transmitted to Villarejo from the DAO about the investigation into 'El Pequeño Nicolás' or that this meeting was going to be held, something that would cast doubt on how the person under investigation could have found out about it to perpetrate it. its recording and subsequent dissemination in a medium owned by it, Sensitive Information.

Regarding the investigation they are carrying out to find out how it was possible for the Internal Affairs meeting with the CNI to be recorded, Pino explained that at first it was decided to fire a police officer on suspicion of Martín-Blas of being the one who captured it. , but it was reinstated immediately after the former head of Internal Affairs said that it was also possible that "he might have left the phone open." "Well, we're fresh, Marcelino!" He remembers that he snapped at him after warning that he "was not a champion of technique."

This thesis clashes with what was stated this Tuesday by Martín-Blas, who did not say that they had called him and that he left the phone without hanging up, but rather that his phone was infected by a Trojan after an incoming call from journalist Carlos Mier that same day which, furthermore, was not registered.

López, who was also at the meeting with the CNI, has maintained that the scientific police report on the recording concluded that it had been through a telephone channel, and a microphone or remote-controlled listening from outside was ruled out.

In addition, it has indicated that after examining the telephones of the attendees (the police officers voluntarily handed over their terminals) they determined that the person who had received a call during the meeting on October 20 was Martín-Blas. "He was the only one who had the mobile phone," he said, to later recall that he was made to leave his terminal outside the office.

In line, he has indicated that the investigation shows that the call received on Martín-Blas' iPhone 4 lasted about 13 minutes and came from the telephone of the investigated journalist, who worked for a media outlet owned by Villarejo.

Rubén Eladio López has defended, as his former boss did yesterday, that Martín-Blas' mobile phone was "a zombie phone" infected by a 'malware', a Trojan horse that activated it to record remotely.

The Seventh Section of the Provincial Court of Madrid judges both Villarejo and his wife, Gemma Alcalá, and the journalist Carlos Mier for an alleged crime of discovery and disclosure of secrets. The Prosecutor's Office requests a four-year prison sentence for the commissioner, while for his wife and Mier they request three years in prison, considering that they acted as necessary collaborators. The State Attorney requested the same sentences for the same crimes.