The judge approves that the operators give data to find out who deleted data from Óscar's car in the Esther López case

VALLADOLID, 27 Ene. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The Investigating Court number 5 of Valladolid, in charge of the investigation of the 'Esther López Case', has authorized the help of the telephone operators in order to try to find out the identity of the person or persons who supposedly helped the main suspect, Óscar S.M, to carry out a deletion of data in the car's switchboard to eliminate possible incriminating evidence, according to information from the Press Office of the Superior Court of Justice of Castilla y León collected by Europa Press.

The request had been made by the Central Operative Unit of the Civil Guard (UCO), which in its letter recalled that a legal expert from the Seada company evacuated in October last year a report on the Volkswagen T-Roc that detected the existence of two intentional erasures of the event and fault records collected in the car's electronic systems, one of them on February 1, 2022, at 1:54 p.m., and another on April 2, at 11:05 a.m.

As a result of said expert, technicians from the UCO's Operational Technological Support Group (GATO) determined that in the first deletion the tourism of Óscar S.M, whom the Civil Guard points out as the main suspect in the disappearance and death of the victim, was was connected to Cell Global Identify (CGI), compatible with its presence on the N-122A road, as it passed through the urban center of La Cistérniga (Valladolid), and that in the second deletion recorded in April it could be found parked at the height of González Silva street, number 9, of the same locality.

The Armed Institute maintains the idea that such electronic manipulations were aimed at hiding or eliminating all records of events and breakdowns that the electronic devices in Óscar's car could have recorded during the night of January 12 to 13 of last year, which was when Esther Lopez was last seen.

Therefore, if in the report of the expert who carried out the analysis of the devices it was already warned that the manipulations could have had the help of someone with high knowledge, the UCO transferred to the investigating judge the "interest of abounding" in the investigations to try to identify this alleged collaborator.

It is at this point that the UCO asked the judge for authorization for almost a dozen operators to collaborate with specific data and information included in their computer storage systems to find out the numbers of subscribers that were connected to the different CGI-telephony cells. -either by calls made and/or received, SMS or any type of data connection--which offer coverage to the points where the investigated person's vehicle was located on the two days in which the data was deleted.

"And this given the more than probable circumstances that the person(s) responsible for the deletion could/n have carried their mobile phones, being subject to the coverage offered by their telephone repeaters", adds the request of the UCO formalized to the investigating judge , a request that Soledad Ortega has already authorized through the corresponding ruling.

"Release the requested documents so that, immediately, the Homicide and Missing Persons Group of the Organic Unit of the Judicial Police, of Valladolid and the Homicide, Kidnapping and Extortion section of the UCO, can contribute the requested data," the instructor resolved. .

The request for a new test occurred a few days after another report from the company Ingeniería y Seguridad Vial Consultores y Reconstructores de Accidentes S.L. confirmation that tourism Óscar S.M. he would have been washed at a gas station in the capital Valladolid on the same day as the disappearance of the young woman, on January 13, 2022, also supposedly, as the Armed Institute maintains, to eliminate possible traces that could incriminate him in the facts.

In that report, one of the main pieces of evidence that it was the same car is a distinctive pendant from the interior mirror, which, given such a high correlation, "could hardly be considered another vehicle."

The investigation into the case has been extended for another six months. Until now, most of the reports made by the UCO focus all suspicions on Óscar S.M, supposedly the last person who on the night of the proceedings, on January 13, 2022, saw her alive and took her in his vehicle after a party night.

The investigations also fell on Lucio Carlos G.D. ('Carolo'), although the constant trickle of reports from the Benemérita on the case have left both him and Ramón in the background and have put Óscar S.M.

However, and despite the requests of the victim's family to prosecute the aforementioned, the investigator, with the endorsement of the prosecutor in the case, has rejected such a claim, recalling that there are still proceedings to be carried out.