Villarejo asks the AN to declare null the investigation into the alleged plot to sell information from prison

He assures that four years after the opening of the piece there is only "an accumulation of false and singularly vague information"

MADRID, 2 Mar. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The retired commissioner José Manuel Villarejo, the main person investigated in the 'Tándem' case, has asked the National Court to declare null and void everything in separate piece number 28, which deals with the attempt by the former police officer to sell sensitive information from prison , because their right to effective judicial protection, to a fair trial and to a process with all the guarantees has been violated "due to the pre-ordering of the process for spurious purposes".

In the letter, to which Europa Press has had access, Villarejo puts himself in the role of co-defender of himself and focuses on the fact that at the origin of the piece in October 2020 the court made "exceptional" decisions based on official Internal Affairs that had the objective of being able to "justify the unjustified extension to the maximum possible of his pre-trial detention", which at that time already reached three years. He points out that both this piece and 27 are started by "as always false calls from Internal Affairs."

Villarejo considers that the examining magistrate, Manuel García Castellón, was carried away by good faith and did not doubt the police reports, so "he did not verify that everything they wrote was pure and simple rubbish." Thus, he criticizes that the complaint that gives rise to this piece, after the alleged offer of information to the defense of the Pujols by a prisoner who shared a prison with Villarejo, came directly from a "mercenary", alluding to the detective from Método 3 Francis Mark.

Throughout the letter, the commissioner also attacks the origin of 'Tándem' --he says that it stems from an anonymous complaint that was not such because it came from what he defines as a CNI agent David Vidal--, and points out that already in the sentence of the 'Nicolay case' (a cause of which he has been acquitted) the work of the "partial investigators, the same ones who coincidentally feed the Tandem cause", are questioned. "More than police jobs, novel scripts should be considered," he adds.

In this context, the now retired commissioner maintains that after "almost four years" since the opening of the aforementioned pieces "and except for a host of false and singularly vague information, there is nothing today that supports even the slightest credibility of the accusations that were made. ".

All this, he points out, "despite using all kinds of electronic means, including satellites, as if it were an anti-terrorist operation." "No incriminating evidence was ever obtained," he says.

In his opinion, this means that there is no justification for the "urgency with which a whole series of measures infringing rights such as those suffered were adopted, which is why now," he adds in his letter, "the instruction seems to go on camera slow".

In this regard, and "despite the total lack of evidence against" his wife, he criticizes the fact that their telephones were tapped for months, their home was searched and they were detained for more than 72 hours.

Thus, he reproaches the Prosecutor's Office for "recklessly launching accusations without any foundation" without first "having assessed the spurious origin" of the complaints that gave rise to the two aforementioned lines of investigation.

Finally, Villarejo denounces the disappearance of "most of the statements of those investigated, as well as the telephone conversations" of his wife "and always due to 'technical problems', never justified." All of this, he states, "makes evident the trickery of this piece."