The former Minister of Finance Cristóbal Montoro He has appeared in the open proceedings against him for crimes of corruption and has done so with the Valencian lawyer Javier Gómez-Ferrer. The former popular leader entrusts his defense to a prestigious Valencian criminal and lawyer who has integrated the team of Ana Duato in the procedure that was followed against it by The Nummaria case and from which it has been acquitted.
In a letter that advances the reason, Montoro’s new lawyer denounces that, although he knew about the existence of this procedure through the press, it has not been until June 19 of this year when he has been formally notified of the existence of the same. “This is the first time that he is formal of the existence of said procedure and that he is directed against him, like other investigated, “says the penalist and also a state lawyer.
As he says, in these years he had knowledge of the investigation that is followed in the Court of Instruction number 2 of Tarragona “that could be related to his person and Activity as Minister of the Government of Spain“. In this regard, the lawyer has already pointed in this first letter to the court The damage that has caused him to maintain secret investigation for seven years as well as “Interested leaks” happened on the proceedings.
“Banquillo instrumental penalty”
“Until the date of the aforementioned car, my representative has had to repeatly endure interested leaks related to this procedure, generating a inexcusable helplessness; On the one hand, because the procedure has remained secret and thus has been maintained (unusual) for approximately 7 years, preventing my representative from knowing what was being investigated, “he says.
In line, it slides that these years of secret research have violated their fundamental right to defense, opening the door in this way to a Futurible appeal for amparo before the Constitutional Court. About this, he maintains that he has undergone prolonged helplessness over time and “Banquillo instrumental penalty” Following all the information that has been published on this plot of corruption within the framework of which the payments that channeled the office economic team of gas companies in return are investigated, allegedly, of legislate in favor of their interests.
With this first writing, the defense of Montoro announces its personation “as investigated” in the procedure along with access to full content of actions which started in 2018. In addition, it claims that the deadlines and accusations be suspended until they are transferred from the entire material of the case to be able to proceed to their study and analysis.
Seven years under secret
The one who was the minister of the governments of José María Aznar and Mariano Rajoy is pronounced after others investigated in the procedure – as is the case of Vicente Tutor, director of the economic team – requested The nullity of the actions For an alleged overreach of the Judicial Police having analyzed the content of an email Located in a “casual” way in 2017 within the framework of other investigations, without due judicial authorization.
To Tutor, who maintains that the police report on these sources of evidence is “Null of full right”also adheres the office itself, charged as a legal entity, which is based on the seven years that these underground sessions have been maintained. It is an allegation that Montoro himself also defends in his brief, the framework of which he denounces that during all these years He has been prevented from knowing “what was being investigated.”
It should be remembered that the instructor of the procedure, Rubén Rus, charged Montoro and a dozen people (including high staff of his ministry) for allegedly knitting a plot to promote legislative reforms in exchange for companies in the gas sector that would have derived them important payments camouflaged in alleged advisory services provided by economic team.
Fund diversion through screen companies
Montoro has defended in this regard that, although he founded said entity at the end of the 2000s, he has had nothing to do with subsequent actions. However, the judge places him within this framework that, in addition, he would have used a Maraña de Companies to which they would have diverted the funds obtained. The Tax Agency identified several mercantiles (created the last of them in October 2012) in its investigations that received payments between 2008 and 2015 of economic equipment “uninterruptedly.
In this regard, the treasury detected that these mercantiles appeared linked to the members of the members of the office and that they They lacked material and personal means to execute the contracts signed with the office founded by Montoro.
The research pivoted around the fertilizers of the gas companies encompassed in the Association of Industrial and Medicinal Gas Manufacturers (Afgim) After verifying that they achieved legal modifications that benefited him, such as the reduction in the special tax on electricity with which this sector Millions of euros were saved.