The National Court rejects Monedero's appeal and allows the judge to investigate him for money laundering

MADRID, 24 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The Criminal Chamber of the National Court (AN) has rejected this Monday the appeal filed by the co-founder of Podemos Juan Carlos Monedero against the decision of Judge Manuel García Castellón to investigate him for alleged crimes of money laundering and document fraud, which will allow the magistrate to continue with the corresponding investigations.

In a car, to which Europa Press has had access, the magistrates of the Third Section discard the argument used by Monedero, who assured in his letter that these facts had already been investigated in the Investigating Court 45 of Madrid and were archived, to the Just as it happened with the cause for the financing of Podemos in the Central Court of Instruction Number 6 itself, which is directed by García Castellón.

"We are not in the prosecution phase that requires the certainty referred to in the doctrine of the Supreme Court, but before the start of an investigation as there is an appearance that the origin of funds from an apparently criminal activity is being masked - -sale of oil on the black market-- interposing figureheads and shell companies, which would appear on the licit market as payment for loans or through companies providing services and facts that apparently presented the characteristics of a documentary falsity", details the Living room.

Thus, the magistrates consider that "the appeal should be dismissed when describing in the appealed order some facts that present the characteristics of a crime whose discovery apparently would not have occurred through investigation proceedings declared inadmissible by prospective, whose assessment or connection of illegality with these correspond to the body in charge of the investigation".

It was on September 5 when the university professor appealed the decision of the instructor to open an investigation against him for alleged crimes of money laundering and false documents, denying in his letter that he had 92 current accounts in different banks.

García Castellón agreed last July to open the proceedings after concluding the analysis of the documentation provided by the Economic and Fiscal Crime Unit (UDEF) that there are suspicions that some of the documents provided by VIU Europa SL, following a police request, " could present obvious inaccuracies between the date of creation of the file and the date that appears on the document itself".

In said report, in addition, the researchers pointed out that the co-founder of the 'purple' formation would be the owner of 92 different current accounts: 86 in Tríodos Bank NVSE, 5 in the Banco Santander entity and 2 in Caixabank.

Monedero stated in its appeal that this supposed "triangular movement of funds" is not an indication of any criminal activity, but a "mere reflection of economic relations", referring to the "payment to a subcontractor or any supplier, by a professional or a company, when they receive the money owed by the end customer".