The TSJ of Madrid paralyzes the rogatory commission of Andorra against Rajoy, Montoro and Fernández Díaz

He corrects himself and estimates the resources presented by the former president and former government ministers

MADRID, 15 Dic. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The Superior Court of Justice (TSJ) of Madrid has agreed with the ex-president of the Government Mariano Rajoy and the ex-ministers Cristóbal Montoro and Jorge Fernández Díaz and has agreed to paralyze the rogatory commission that Andorra issued regarding the complaint of the 'Operation Catalonia' presented against the three charges. Thus, he has corrected himself and has annulled the decision he adopted in October by which he had rejected the request of the former president and the former ministers.

In three orders, to which Europa Press has had access, the magistrates have estimated the resources of the former members of the Executive and have suspended the decision that the Ministry of Justice adopted in June, by which the rogatory commission issued the Principality.

Consequently, the court has also ordered that "the sending or return of the information received from the Investigating Court Number 32 of Madrid to the Andorran authorities be stopped."

The Justice of Andorra investigates Rajoy, Fernández Díaz and Montoro for alleged crimes of coercion, threats, blackmail, extortion, coercion of constitutional bodies and creation of a false document for their alleged relationship with attempts to find out "through illegal means" bank information secret of the former presidents of the Generalitat Jordi Pujol and Artur Mas, as well as the former vice president Oriol Junqueras.

Specifically, the facts denounced in the complaints are related to alleged extortion, coercion and blackmail since 2014 by agents of the National Police against those responsible for Banca Privada d'Andorra (BPA) to obtain bank information "through illegal means". secret protected by Andorran legislation" of various rulers of Catalonia and their relatives, including Pujol, Mas and Junqueras.

After months of various appeals, the former president and former ministers have managed to get the Madrid Supreme Court to agree with them and suspend Andorra's rogatory commission regarding the 'Operation Catalonia' complaint.

In contrast to what was agreed last November, on this occasion the court has indicated that "it is appropriate to agree on the requested precautionary measure" and that this "will be maintained until a final judgment is delivered that puts an end to the process or has ended for any other of the reasons provided In the law".

The magistrates have concluded that, "once the various interests in the conflict have been assessed", "circumstances" exist that justify the adoption of the measure requested by Rajoy, Montoro and Fernández Díaz.

The court has defended that the requested measure must be adopted because "the execution of the rogatory letter by the Ministry (of Justice) would entail damages that are difficult or impossible to repair for the interested party."

The TSJ has agreed to paralyze judicial assistance to the Principality because --despite what was believed at first-- the Ministry of Justice did not send the documentation required by Andorra.

This decision by the Madrid court takes place after last November the Provincial Court also corrected itself. That day, Rajoy agreed and the Investigating Court Number 32 was notified that he had to admit the appeal of the former president in which he requested the stoppage of the rogatory commission of Andorra.

The defenses of Rajoy, Fernández Díaz and Montoro had alleged that their rights had been violated because the court in question, when processing the aforementioned request, did not carry out the "prior control of legality in accordance with national and conventional legislation in matter of international cooperation.