The PP accuses the government of « investigating » the UCO and the PSOE denies it « categorically » | Spain

« The Civil Guard is respected, it is not defamed; who investigates is defended and not indicated. No one should question those who investigate. » This blunt Borja Sémper has been shown after the weekly meeting of the PP Management Committee on Monday. The popular spokesman has appeared after the appointment and has focused the focus of his criticisms of the government on a Information published by The confidential. The news describes an alleged operation of the PSOE to achieve compromising data from the Head of the Department of Economic Crime of the Central Operating Unit (UCO), Lieutenant Colonel of the Civil Guard Antonio Balas, through the dissemination of audios that involve María Leire Díez Castro, which said newspaper qualifies as “Ponnera de Moncloa and the PSOE”.

The Popular Party gives total credibility to the events reported and attacks fiercely. « It is of such gravity that they are more typical behaviors of a mafia organization than of a political party, » said Sémper, accusing the president of the Government as the ultimate responsible for the alleged coercions to the Armed Institute and Tacha to the PSOE of Pedro Sánchez of « institutional pressure apparatus willing to burst the rule of law. »

But the Socialist Party, meanwhile, has denied the link established between Díez and Ferraz. « None of the people who appear in that recording are on the payroll in the PSOE, and say otherwise it only looks for a leap in this daily offensive against the socialists, » says Formation sources in a statement released early, and in which they « categorically » demolish the information. « The PSOE reserves the right to initiate the legal actions that it creates appropriate, before a publication that it considers defamatory and clearly aimed at performing reputational damage to the party, » they add.

The popular, however, give certain facts. « Only who fears what the Civil Guard could have discovered, investigates the Civil Guard, » added the PP spokesman in allusion to investigations such as the Koldo case The alleged involvement of the PSOE Secretary of Organization, Santos Cerdán. The socialist leader appeared last week briefly before the media to defend their innocence In front of an alleged report of the UCO that would link to the Amaño of Public Works Contracts, related to the plot.

The PP is proposed to request the appearance of Díez to the Research Commission on the Koldo case promoted with its absolute majority in the Senate. « Nobody in the PSOE orders investigations or doses without being known by his secretary of Organization, » Semper said, qualifying Díez as « Person of Maximum Confidence » of Cerdán.

In another parallel press conference, held after the meeting of the Federal Executive Commission of the PSOE, the socialist spokeswoman Ester Peña, has transferred the « total respect » of her training « to the work of the UCO ». But he has reiterated his rejection of the information of El Confidencial, insisting that « none of the people who appear in the recording is on the payroll of the Socialist Party or has ever been. »

« What is happening to us in recent weeks is that we do not talk about the UCO reports, but that there is talk of something that someone says that appears in a document related to the UCO and that never knew, » Peña said. « The reputational damage to honest people is done day by day, the damage that is tried to the political organization is done day by day, but there really is nothing that really accredits all those defamations and all those data. Therefore, we continue to respect the UCO and all the organs that are really dedicated to studying issues regulated in our country with so many cases that are also open of the PP, » he added.

Interior Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska has spoken to express his confidence in the agents of the National Police and the Civil Guard. And about María Leire Díez Castro, he added: « I refer to the PSOE statement. » « Do not give proven what you have taken for proven, » he answered a question of the press about the information published on Monday.

An accused entrepreneur

The published audios collect the partial content of a meeting held by videoconference, where María Leire Díez Castro and businessman Alejandro Hamlyn participated. This last name is key. The thesis of The confidential It is that Díez Castro wanted Hamlyn to provide you with compromising information of a UCO command. In that line, this Monday, the businessman has granted an interview with the web Digital star Where he adds: « They offered me impunity if I accused the Civil Guard and the Anti -Corruption Prosecutor. »

All this is put on the table this Monday, at a fundamental moment for Hamlyn. The businessman had to go to the National Court this morning to be tried for leading a « criminal organization » dedicated to hydrocarbon fraud, for which the Prosecutor’s Office claims to be imposed more than 89 years in jail. However, the businessman has not submitted to the appointment and his lawyer, José Antonio Choclán, has claimed that he is held in Dubai by the authorities, due to the default of a debt.

Choclán, who also exercises the defense of commissioner Víctor de Aldama in the call Koldo casehas insisted that Hamlyn wanted to see. However, the Prosecutor’s Office does not believe and slides that it aims to hinder the action of justice. « Mr. Hamlyn has not come because he does not want or because he cannot? That debt, to the change, is 3,000 euros. And that prohibition of exit rises at the same time that it is paid. He has been able to pay the 3,000 euros (for a month) and come, and he has not done so, » said the representative of the Public Ministry, which has asked the court to dictate an order to seek, capture and entry into prison of Hamlyn. The State Advocacy has supported that initiative.

At the moment, given the misunderstanding of the businessman, the magistrates have decided to postpone the beginning of the trial until June 30. The Court has asked Choclán that his client facilitates an address to personally notify the date and has opened the door that, in the event that that day is not presented, an arrest warrant is issued against him.

In this case, the prosecution asks that more than 89 years in prison be imposed on Hamlyn for leading a plot around the oil company Hafesa Energía, accused of perpetrating a fraud of more than 154 million euros between 2016 and 2019, by Do not pay VAT derived from the commercialization and sale of fuels. « I am an independent entrepreneur who has raised his group from scratch. They have tried to use me as a political weapon. When I refused to collaborate in his assembly against the Civil Guard, they reactivated the criminal process against me, » the businessman defends himself in that interview of Digital star.

On the bench of the defendants, another twenty people feel. Among them, José Norberto Uzal, which is indicated as number two of Hamlyn in the plot. Before occupying the position of CEO of Hafesa, José Norberto Uzal was general director of Local Administration of the Department of Presidency of the Xunta de Galicia that headed Alberto Núñez Feijóo, current president of the PP. He held that position between 2009 and 2013. The Prosecutor’s Office also asks for more than 89 years in prison for him.