MADRID, 17 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The television producer José Luis Moreno has threatened to exercise “all the legal actions that proceed against” the leaks of the ‘Operation Titella’ that seek his “personal and professional destruction”. “It is totally intolerable and indicatively criminal,” he has argued.
In a letter last Thursday, to which Europa Press has had access, the defense of the ventriloquist explains that “the problem is not that the media report on the evolution” of the case that is instructed in the National Court, but that ” any of the accusations” is deliberately leaking “secret court proceedings”.
It is, maintains its representation, a strategy that hides a “mendacious purpose, since said accusation only filters those actions that interest it to offer a partial and biased vision of the evolution of the procedure, which gives rise to an unfair parallel trial, social and media coverage, thus increasing the serious damages already caused”.
And “this is possible”, Moreno’s defense insists, “because despite having repeatedly requested it”, the Central Court of Instruction Number 2 headed by Ismael Moreno “has not adopted any measure during all this time to guarantee the confidentiality of the court proceedings”.
“As no measure has been adopted to purge the responsibilities incurred as a result of those leaks of judicial actions, which suppose the personal and professional destruction of my client, before which the judicial body remains impassive”, he criticizes.
However, Moreno’s lawyer assures that “he is not going to request again that the Court enforce the law and demand that the responsible prosecution cease its inadmissible leaks. “We have already requested it at least three times, and nothing has been done about it,” he says.
After having “filed dozens of lawsuits for the violation of the right to honor” of Moreno, his lawyer informs the instructor “the next exercise of criminal actions for the circumstantial commission of a crime of disclosure of judicial proceedings” provided for in the Code Penal.
“This party has the firm determination to exercise all the legal actions that proceed against those who, in one way or another, violate the rights of Mr. Moreno; who will be required to bear the responsibilities incurred,” he asserts in his letter.
The investigations around Titella began in 2018 and the operation hatched in June 2021 with the arrest of the ventriloquist and that of dozens of people in different cities for an alleged fraud perpetrated through a corporate network.
The investigators divide the alleged plot into two organizations: one led by Moreno, Antonio Aguilera and Antonio Salazar, dedicated since 2017 to “fraud and fraud against banking entities and private investors”, “to the falsification of bank effects such as checks and promissory notes” and to “money laundering”; and another, headed by Carlos Brambilla, an alleged drug trafficker who would have used said structure to launder money.
According to the judicial report, Moreno and Aguilera would be the “maximum responsible” and Salazar, the third in action. Each one would have a function. The producer, “as a well-known public figure, would lend his name as a business card” in order to easily get the financing they would pretend to need to launch a film project. Therefore, he “was the main recipient of the funds obtained”.
That money would then pass into the hands of Aguilera and Salazar. The two would have “extensive knowledge in banking and commercial operations”, so they would take care of creating the companies, “make them up”, appoint administrators and present them to the banking entities as the recipients of the necessary financing for said projects. In reality, they would have no activity at all.
Through this network of “front companies” managed by presumed figureheads, both organizations would move “large amounts of cash” which they tried to dispose of with income that they passed off as benefits from their commercial work or with cash injections for which they would have the complicity of bank employees who would take their commission in exchange for introducing this money into the legal circuit.
