MADRID, 5 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The judge of the National Court in charge of the investigation of the ‘Villarejo case’, Manuel García Castellón, has summoned the former worker of the detective agency Method 3 Julián Peribáñez, the last fringe before decide on the future of this separate piece number 27.
In a car, to which Europa Press has had access, the head of the Central Court of Instruction Number 6 calls Peribáñez to court as a complainant, reminding him of the “obligation he has to appear.” If they don’t, he points out, the subpoena “may become an arrest warrant.”
This decision of the judge comes after he himself agreed to extend the instruction of this separate piece for three months, precisely, to listen to the former employee of the agency before making a final decision. However, legal sources advanced then that the decision to close the piece was already practically made.
The magistrate himself explained last July that just one day after asking the parties if he should extend the investigations or terminate them, a letter from Peribáñez entered his court requesting his appearance as a victim, alleging that the entry and registration was also ordered. at his home, as in the case of the other injured party, Francisco Marco –owner of the agency–.
García Castellón also stressed that this statement could lead to new investigations or new incriminating evidence, something that led him to extend the investigation because otherwise “the situation could arise in which it was necessary to analyze new lines of investigation without legal support for it ” .
The Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office asked the judge that same month of July to agree to the provisional dismissal of this piece 27 because in the trial that was being held at that time in the National High Court for the ‘Land piece’ –among two others– the company itself Method 3 already exercised private prosecution.
In this separate piece of ‘Tándem’, the magistrate tries to determine if the retired commissioner José Manuel Villarejo played any role in the entries and searches that took place in February 2013 at the Method 3 headquarters in Barcelona and Madrid and that were resulted in the arrest of several members of the agency and its owner.
The police operation was unleashed by the alleged espionage plot in La Camarga, a restaurant in the Catalan capital where the then leader of the PP in Catalonia, Alicia Sánchez-Camacho, and Victoria Álvarez – former partner of Jordi Pujol Jr – had a conversation that Method 3 would have recorded.
In that talk, in July 2010, the latter would have revealed to the “popular” leader aspects of their sentimental relationship, including the possible commission of money laundering crimes by the former president’s son.
The investigation into the so-called ‘La Camarga’ case was filed in the Barcelona investigating courts, but Marco subsequently filed a complaint against Villarejo for those entries and records, the arrests and the leaks to the media of allegedly false information about that recording .
The complaint by the owner of Method 3 triggered the opening of this piece, number 27. But Marco’s name already appeared in the legal swarm of ‘Tándem’. It appears as injured in ‘Land’, one of the pieces that has already been judged in the National High Court, and which deals with the alleged commission that Susana García Cereceda and Francisco Peñalver, administrators of Procisa, the real estate developer of the luxurious urbanization ‘La Finca’ de Pozuelo de Alarcón, they would have made Commissioner Villarejo to discredit possible heirs of the emporium left by his father, Luis García Cereceda.
