The coroner of the court already assured in May that his state of health could not be proven until six months after that date
MADRID, 8 Nov. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The defense of the former head of the Central Operational Support Unit (UCAO) of the National Police, Enrique García Castaño, has asked the National High Court for a new medical examination in order to prove that the ex-commissioner is not liable in the ‘Villarejo case’ as a result of the stroke he suffered last May.
Legal sources have explained to Europa Press that García Castaño’s representation has asked the court to carry out an evaluation of his state of health to assess his position in all the pieces of the ‘Tándem’ macro-cause in which he is charged. The defense has even proposed to the investigating judge and the prosecutors that they come to visit him and check what conditions the former commissioner is in.
The same sources explain that the coroner has recertified the delicate situation of García Castaño after he has been summoned as a witness for next November 29 in the trial that is being held at the Provincial Court of Madrid against the retired commissioner José Manuel Villarejo for allegedly ordering the recording and dissemination of a meeting of the National Intelligence Center (CNI) about Francisco Nicolás Gómez Iglesias, known as ‘Little Nicolás’.
This request for the former commissioner’s representation comes after the court that judged the first pieces of the ‘Villarejo case’ refused to remove him from the oral hearing — leaving it only on hold for him until his medical situation was clarified — and the The investigating judge also refused to file the macro-case as a whole, also considering that it was still hasty.
The magistrates of the Chamber confirmed this decision of the investigating judge –supported by the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office and the State Attorney’s Office– to keep the case against García Castaño open, considering that the incompetability of the person under investigation had not been “duly proven” in ‘Tandem’.
García Castaño is one of the more than thirty defendants who have been tried in the first major trial by ‘Tándem’ for the pieces ‘Land’, ‘Iron’ and ‘Pintor’ until he was suspended due to his stroke. The Prosecutor’s Office asks for 87 years in prison for, allegedly, having given Villarejo data from police databases for his private investigations.
The president of the court of the AN, Ángela Murillo, already assured during the trial that the definitive consequences that the stroke could have for García Castaño’s health could not be assessed for another six months, which led to the aforementioned suspension.
He is also accused in the main piece of the case, where CENYT, the retired commissioner’s business group, is investigated as a criminal organization, money laundering crimes and the ‘King’ project, related to some work in Equatorial Guinea.
In addition, the former head of the UCAO has already been prosecuted for piece 21, on the alleged espionage commissioned by Repsol and Caixabank against the then president of Sacyr, Luis del Rivero; and for ‘Marbella’, for the inquiries against a Marbella businessman.
Likewise, García Castaño has also been prosecuted by ‘Kitchen’, on the alleged espionage of the former treasurer of the PP Luis Bárcenas and continues to be investigated in piece 9, where the alleged illicit orders of BBVA to the retired commissioner José Manuel Villarejo are investigated.
