MADRID, 2 Nov. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Superior Court of Justice (TSJ) of Madrid has rejected the request of former President of the Government Mariano Rajoy to paralyze in a precautionary manner the rogatory commission that Andorra issued with the intention of questioning him as a result of the complaint filed in the Principality for the ‘Catalonia operation ‘.
As stated in an order, signed on October 31 and collected by Europa Press, the magistrates, by rejecting Rajoy’s request, have agreed to lift the very precautionary measure that he had adopted last week to urgently suspend Andorra’s rogatory commission.
The court’s decision takes place after the Prosecutor’s Office and the Lawyer’s Office ruled on Rajoy’s request to provisionally suspend the judicial assistance of the Principality.
The Public Ministry showed its opposition on October 26, considering that Rajoy’s argument that his fundamental rights have been violated with the processing of the rogatory commission, what “really” covers up is a trial on the actions of the Investigating Court Number 32 of Madrid and the Provincial Court.
The Prosecutor’s Office also assured that the “questioning” that Rajoy made about the decision of the General Directorate of International Cooperation to proceed with the Andorran rogatory commission would be “an examination of ordinary legality not susceptible to evaluation” because, according to the Public Ministry, the violation to which the former president referred was not accredited.
The defense of the former leader of the PP alleged that he had seen his rights violated because the Madrid court, when processing the aforementioned request, did not carry out the “prior control of legality in accordance with national and conventional legislation on international cooperation.”
Although the Provincial Court of Madrid agreed with him in considering that said court should have upheld his appeals against Andorra’s rogatory commission, it stated that it could not admit his appeals because the judge had already acted and given a response to the Principality. Thus, he endorsed the judicial assistance provided to the Andorran authorities.
Faced with this scenario, Rajoy’s defense filed an appeal against the decision of the Directorate General for International Cooperation to give the green light to Andorra’s rogatory commission, but it was unsuccessful, because it was inadmissible by the Secretary of State for Justice, which It is what he has now asked to review in the Madrid Supreme Court.
It should be remembered that the Justice of Andorra investigates Rajoy, the former Minister of the Interior Jorge Fernández Díaz and the former Minister of Finance Cristóbal Montoro for alleged crimes of coercion, threats, blackmail, extortion, coercion of constitutional bodies and the creation of a false document for their alleged relationship with the attempts to learn “through illegal means” secret bank information of the former presidents of the Generalitat Jordi Pujol and Artur Mas, as well as former vice president Oriol Junqueras.
Specifically, the facts denounced in the complaints are related to alleged extortion, coercion and blackmail since 2014 by agents of the National Police to those responsible for the Banca Privada d’Andorra (BPA) to obtain “through illegal means” bank information secret protected by Andorran legislation” of various rulers of Catalonia and their relatives.
