2023-10-18 15:53:51
The judge of the National Court Santiago Pedraz has referred to a Madrid court the investigation of the Civil Guard brigade that confesses several illegalities in a recording. In a document, to which elDiario.es has had access, Pedraz considers that the jurisdiction to investigate the facts corresponds to the court that corresponds to the division of Plaza de Castilla, as the Anti-Drug Prosecutor’s Office had proposed.
The accusation of a Civil Guard commander reveals the lack of control of his specialized unit
Judge Pedraz interrogated as an investigator last September the civil guard Sergio B., assigned to the Economic Crimes Group of the Madrid Command. The brigadier appears in recordings claiming that he had placed illegal beacons and ordered a detainee to be interrogated without the presence of a lawyer.
The head of the Central Court of Instruction number 5 of the National Court explains in his order that the brigade was summoned as being investigated for an alleged crime committed by a public official, specifically 536, which punishes anyone who violates the law with disqualification of two to six years. the privacy of a citizen by intercepting their communications.
The prosecutor in the case, Dolores López Salcedo, had opposed the brigadier’s statement, but after Pedraz’s interrogation she changed her opinion and proposed that the facts be investigated in a court in Madrid. She alleged that the result of the supposedly illegal beacons placed on those investigated for drug trafficking was incorporated into a court of the National Court based in Madrid, so the crime would have been committed in this city.
According to the prosecutor, Pedraz concludes that it should be a court in Madrid that investigates, regardless of whether the placement of the beacons had been “planned and put into operation at the headquarters of the investigated party’s office,” whether in Las Rozas, Móstoles or Tres Cantos, towns where the Civil Guard Command has its headquarters.
The lawyers of the alleged drug traffickers whom the brigade was investigating in a case managed to get the judge to incorporate the recordings, made by a woman with whom the brigade had a sporadic relationship. During his testimony at the National Court, the brigadier tried to convince the judge that he was pretending and that he knew that the woman was a decoy for the investigated drug trafficking organization. The recording ended with the civil guard and the woman paying for a hotel room.
In the aforementioned recording, the brigadier answers a call from his boss, the head of the Economic Crimes Group, to whom he implies that the lieutenant is aware of the illegalities and is in charge of them. “My boss just wants it to be heard,” he is heard in the recording, referring to the media impact of his group’s operations.
Of these investigations, the most high-profile one was the one that got a Madrid judge to charge the Government delegate during the pandemic, José Manuel Franco, for having allowed the feminist demonstration on March 8, 2020, knowing the risk to the population due to the expansion of Covid-19.
The reports from the brigade and its group sought to point out members of the Government, but they turned out to be an accumulation of conjectures, misrepresentations and hoaxes with an ideological bias. The case was archived after a huge political earthquake in the middle of the pandemic crisis. Regardless of this, Pedraz has focused on investigating the alleged illegal activities of the civil guards in relation to the case that he is investigating in his court, that of drug trafficking and money laundering.
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