The Defense of Santos Cerdán has presented this Monday in the Supreme Court an extensive brief in which he requests a battery of proceedings that claims, among other issues, that the true role that Koldo García has played in his collaboration with the Civil Guard and that, suspect the lawyers, has been hidden through the material presented by the Central Operating Unit without control of the magistrate of the case of the case.
For this reason, they ask that all this material “declared secret” be rejoined to the procedure and clarify why the commander charged at the National Court shared with his subordinates a chat called “K plumbing” that, according to the defense of the former secretary of Organization, could explain the authentic functions of the former advisor of José Luis Ábalos, referring to the K to the first letter of the name of Koldo. The background thesis is that the procedure has been directed against Cerdán for its role in negotiation with Junts.
The lawyers resort to an attest of the UCO itself that served for the imputation of Commander Rubén Villalba and the conversations recorded by himself with his boss, the colonel in command of UCE-2, within the information service. In those audios Villalba himself explains to his boss the disbursement of amounts for the purchase of mobile phones for Koldo García.
Cerdán's lawyers refer concrete comments on the “pollution” of the devices and relate it to the fact that Koldo García insists that he did not record the conversations that record indications against which he was secretary of organization of the PSOE. Lawyers ask that the interview with Koldo García in the Mañaneros de TVE program to join the cause. They also request the statement of the superiors of Rubén Villalba in the Civil Guard, as well as the agents to their orders.
A second vertex of the Defense letter focuses on what a maneuver of Víctor de Aldama considers to distract his responsibility in the case that kept him in provisional prison, the fraud of the hydrocarbons, until he decided to recognize his participation in the plot of the promotion masks and denounce the alleged responsibility in the corruption of Ábalos and Cerdán, among others responsible for the PSOE.
According to the lawyers of Cerdán, the businessman Víctor de Aldama tried to hide that his profits
“Neither fraud in the hiring, nor Delcygate, but fraud in the VAT of Petroleum and Guaidó, which are the real reasons why Mr. Aldama intends to disguise the illicit origin of his money to avoid the consequences that lead him to prison and that with his fake statements that give rise to this procedure, avoid the preventive prison as final collects the writing of the lawyers Beet Salellas and Jacobo Teijelo, to which eldiario.es has had access.
In this sense, the defense of Cerdán requests that the list of visits that Aldama received in the prison of Soto del Real be made available to the Court before making the statement against socialist politicians “in order to determine the roads of agreement and possible instructions received in prison to direct his statement”. Víctor de Aldama was discharged as a confidant of the Unit against Islamist terrorism of the Civil Guard, in which the accused commander, Rubén Villalba, was framed.
The third pillar on which the brief of the Defense of Cerdán sits points to the alleged irregularities committed in the opening of the procedure in the Supreme Court. At the start of the case is the complaint received in anti -corruption and presented by the Popular Party of Madrid for the fraud of the masks in transport. Cerdán's defense emphasizes that the Specialized Prosecutor's Office agreed to investigate that complaint fifteen days after the Supreme Court had rejected two others that were in the same direction. He calls it “a pattern of contradiction or reactive resignation.”
The lawyers add that Aldama's testimony joined the Supreme Court in “a violation of the essential principles of the procedure.” They claim that there was no “breakdown of new facts”, that a new procedure was not initiated, nor was there reasoned exhibition followed by supplication. They conclude that an Afforado, Santos Cerdán began to investigate, without the authorization of the Congress.
According to Cerdán's defense, the Supreme Court opened an investigation different from the fraud of the masks without sending a trade to the National Court to decide whether to raise a reasoned exhibition on the alleged involvement of Cerdán. In addition, they say, the Civil Guard, “behind the back of the judge and outside his control, sent an office to the Supreme Court without authorization” of the Koldo Judge at the National Court.
Cerdán's defense suspects that the case of the investigation without authorization from Congress is currently developing against other members of the PSOE, so he asks Judge Leopoldo Puente to paralyze them. In the same way, request that the patrimonial reports on its defendant be incorporated as soon as possible that the Civil Guard claims to continue preparing.
On the other hand, Cerdán's defense once again exposes his doubts about the custody chain of the recordings on which the accusation against his client is supported and denounces that the Civil Guard, in an irregular action, has “displaced” the place where the audios were originally, from the cloud to specific devices. It also states that the numbers of the bags containing the tests do not coincide.
Request for release
Cerdán's lawyers have submitted on Monday a second letter in which they re -request the release of their client, which they consider to be imprisoned according to “a police suspicion” without other sustenance than the interpretation that the UCO makes of the recordings seized to Koldo García. They ensure in this sense that some of the recordings used to accuse him do not exceed the “political activity” of anyone who holds the position of secretary of organization of a party.
The lawyers again expose how no registration has been practiced to Cerdán and not even the Anti -Corruption Prosecutor's Office asked the entrepreneurs who gave a statement for the alleged corrupting activity of the politician. “It is no longer that there is no indication or proof of the corrupting activity attributed to Mr. Cerdán with these gentlemen is that there is not even evidence or that they have ever known each other,” they add.
