The National Court gives the green light to García Castellón’s last attempt to continue investigating Monedero

In a car, to which Europa Press has had access, the magistrates of the Third Section discard the argument used by Monedero, who assured in his letter that these facts had already been investigated in the Investigating Court 45 of Madrid and were archived, to the Just as it happened with the cause for the financing of Podemos in the Central Court of Instruction Number 6 itself, which is directed by García Castellón.

“We are not in the prosecution phase that requires the certainty referred to in the doctrine of the Supreme Court, but before the start of an investigation as there is an appearance that the origin of funds from an apparently criminal activity is being masked – -sale of oil on the black market– interposing figureheads and shell companies, which would appear on the legal market as payment for loans or through companies providing services and facts that apparently presented the characteristics of a documentary falsity”, details the Living room.

Thus, the magistrates consider that “the appeal should be dismissed when the appealed order describes facts that present the characteristics of a crime whose discovery apparently would not have occurred through investigation proceedings declared inadmissible by prospective, whose assessment or connection of illegality with these correspond to the body that has to be in charge of the investigation”.

The founder of Podemos Juan Carlos Monedero filed an appeal before the Criminal Chamber of the National High Court against the new case that Judge Manuel García Castellón has opened against him. According to Monedero’s defense, this new case is nothing more than “an extension, in a completely artificial way” of the one that the same judge secretly opened about a year ago as a result of the statements with which the former Venezuelan general Hugo ‘ El Pollo’ Carvajal intended to delay his extradition to the United States, according to the Criminal Chamber of the National High Court itself.

In July, before going on vacation, García Castellón agreed to open a case to investigate him for alleged crimes of money laundering and false documents after having failed in the secret and “prospective” case for the alleged irregular financing of training, in which he also prosecuted the politician and other founders of Podemos without even attributing them the status of defendants, as the Prosecutor’s Office and the higher instance reproached the judge of the National Court.

The prosecution also appealed

Monedero’s lawyer affirmed in his brief that García Castellón resorts to “suspicion, conjecture and assumptions that lack an objective basis, and that in no case can they be understood as authentic indications of the crimes with respect to which they intend to investigate.” The Public Prosecutor’s Office of the National Court adhered to the resource of Monedero’s defense against the deduction of testimony proposed by García Castellón to continue investigating Juan Carlos Monedero. In the car, the Chamber also rejects that adhesion of the Public Ministry.

García Castellón is now focusing on some transfers between the Monedero company, Caja de Resistencia Motiva 2 Producciones SL, with the company VIU Europa and Banco del Alba for the preparation of an advisory report on the financial spheres of the Alba countries.

In an order, the magistrate explained in June that the Criminal Chamber, in the resolution ordering him to file the secret and “prospective” investigation, indicated that if the court deemed it appropriate, it should deduce testimony for the investigation of economic crimes and falsehoods. The magistrate resorts to this, once again taking into account the statements of former Venezuelan general Hugo, ‘El Pollo’, Carvajal, whose testimony was disregarded by the Prosecutor’s Office and the Criminal Chamber.