The founder of Podemos Miguel Urbán has denounced at the National Court the police assembly he suffered during the first half of 2016 and that falsely linked him with the sale of 40 kilos of cocaine to finance the political party to which he then belonged and of which he was Europarliamentary. Urbán is directed to the Court of Santiago Pedraz, who investigates the dirty war against Podemos, and asks that a separate piece be opened to investigate the police maneuvers against him.
In a letter to the Court, the legal representation of Urban indicates the possible commission of the crimes of slander, illegitimate interference in the privacy and falsification of documents. The exeurodiputee mentions two of the commissioners who starred in the assembly against him. This is the then director of the Intelligence Center against Terrorism and Crime Organization (Citco), José Luis Olivera, and who directed the Unit against Economic and Fiscal Crime (UDEF), José Manuel García Catalán.
Olivera will sit on the bench for allegedly participating in another of the maneuvers of the political brigade, the espionage to Luis Bárcenas with reserved funds, while García Catalán has declared a witness in the case against Podemos that is followed in the Central Court of Instruction number 5 of the National Court.
The Anti -Drug Prosecutor's Office opened an investigation from a report signed by Commissioner Olivera in which a confidant claimed to have witnessed how Urban, being a Europarliamentary, sold 40 kilos of cocaine from Venezuela to a third party, with the intermediation of the owner of a pub of Malasaña.
The cocaine, added the story of the confidant to which the commissioner gave credit, included that the fate of money was the illegal financing of Podemos. “The police – says the complaint -, without any judicial authorization, acting illegally and violating the rights of Mr. Urban search in the economic life of the anti -capitalist militant.”
As of the Grotesco Story, the Police achieved amparo to investigate the Urban accounts and, as the National Court has accredited, to search the police databases related to Pablo Iglesias, then leader of the party.
Podemos has tried to incorporate the proceedings of the Anti -Drug Prosecutor's Office to the case that is followed in the court of Pedraz, but the judge has rejected it following the criteria of the prosecutor of the case. Pedraz has agreed to take a statement as investigated to the police who sought in the databases to Pablo Iglesias with the excuse of the drug bullfight.
