The judge extends the list of accused by the dirty war against Podemos in Rajoy’s time | Spain

The Instructor Judge Santiago Pedraz, who Investigate the dirty warfare against Podemos From the Ministry of Interior at the time of the government of Mariano Rajoy (PP), he has expanded the list of accused. The magistrate of the National Court has called to declare as investigated the Chief Inspector Bonifacio Díaz Sevillano, who was one of the trusted men of Commissioner Eugenio Pino, the most operational head of the National Police during the popular executive. At the request of the Political Force and backed by the Prosecutor’s Office, Judge Pedraz has set the interrogation of Díaz Sevillano on June 6.

This movement occurs after Two former high Venezuelan positions point against the police dome During his statements before the magistrate, held last March. Exviceminist Nervis Villalobos and Javier Ochoa Alvarado told Pedraz that former body members contacted them a decade ago to ask for information about Podemos. Specifically, Villalobos explained that Bonifacio Díaz met with him in Washington in 2015 and that later, once he transferred his residence to Spain, he came to teach “police chips” of members of the party (“in reality, an impression of biographies of the deputies of Podemos from public sources”, according to the formation).

In a letter sent to the judge, we can remember that, when he was summoned as a witness, Díaz Sevillano denied before the judge « having spoken with Villalobos no question referred to Podemos. » « It seems that the aforementioned agent lacked his obligation to tell the judicial headquarters and did it, simply, because the opposite would mean, » the party emphasizes. « The Declaration of Villalobos is a new fact that indicates indiciarily to the realization of information collection activities by (Díaz Sevillano) outside any investigation procedure sustained by the investigation of criminal acts, » said prosecutor Vicente González Mota, which supports the imputation.

The dirty warfare against Podemos included multiple maneuvers. As the preparation and publication of the called PISA Report (acronym for Pablo Iglesias Sociedad Anónima)a false police document that claimed without evidence that Iran had financed the party and that was used to attack Pablo Iglesias. Also, contact With Venezuelan ex -presidents to declare against Podemos – vary agents even traveled to the US (At the expense of public coffers) to try to convince one of them, former Minister Rafael Isea, with the promise that they would give protection and a new life in Spain. As the country publishedat least eight witnesses attribute those weaves to the Patriotic Policea group of agents that operated against political adversaries of the PP when Minister Jorge Fernández Díaz was in charge of the Interior.

In this cause They have also been chargedamong others, Francisco Martínez, former Secretary of State for Security and former number two of Fernández Díaz; Eugenio Pino, former Deputy Director of the National Police (maximum operating chief); and several commissioners (such as Andrés Gómez Gordo, Enrique García Castaño and Germán Rodríguez Castiñeira). In this line, Castiñeira told the judge that García Castañoaka The fat manhe asked him to track the « police records » of parliamentarians of Podemos: « He said: ‘Hey, could you look at me the background of these 69 deputies?’ Then, I got angry and said: ‘But, you are crazy! ”

Bonifacio Díaz Sevillano, whose imputation has advanced eldiario.eshe was one of Eugenio Pino’s closest collaborators in the Police Deputy Operational Directorate (DAO). In fact, this chief inspector will also sit on the bench of the accused in the trial on the Kitchen operation – his celebration is planned for 2026-. Kitchen was one Urdida operation in 2013 Inside to spy on popular former Luis Bárcenas with the alleged objective of stealing documentation that would harm the PP. According to Judge Manuel García-Castellón, Díaz Sevillano « helped » Pino with that plot: « He would have had full knowledge of the implementation and execution of the operation, as well as his illegal nature by having as its objective the subtraction of evidence of a judicial procedure, and the employment during its development of reserved funds. »