MADRID, 4 Nov. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Superior Court of Justice of Madrid (TSJM) has reactivated the rogatory commission issued by Andorra to inform the former Minister of the Interior Jorge Fernández Díaz of his imputation in the procedure that is being followed in the Principality as a result of the complaint filed by the ‘Operation Catalonia’ .
Legal sources have informed Europa Press that the magistrates of the Madrid TSJ have rejected Fernández Díaz’s request -as they did with former Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy– to paralyze the rogatory commission issued by Andorra.
It should be remembered that the Justice of the Principality is investigating both former Executive officials 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 know “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 the Andorran legislation of several governors of Catalonia and their relatives.
The Madrid court –by rejecting Fernández Díaz’s request– has agreed to lift the very precautionary measure that they had adopted last week to urgently suspend Andorra’s rogatory commission. Thus, after this decision, the Principality will receive the documentation required from Spain and will have the green light to proceed against the former minister.
The sources consulted by this agency have specified that the magistrates have issued a resolution “identical” to the one issued regarding Rajoy, concluding that there are sufficient reasons not to accede to the request to suspend the rogatory commission of the Andorran authorities.
The court already explained to the former president that the fact of accepting said rogatory commission could not be confused with a prosecution on the merits of the process. The magistrates insisted that the judicial assistance served to notify him that a procedure had been initiated as a result of a complaint and to “guarantee a situation of equality” before the courts.
The TSJ has thus coincided with the criteria of the Public Ministry, which on October 26 showed its opposition to paralyzing the judicial assistance claimed by the Principality.
