Belén Esteban, collaborator of the program ‘Sálvame’.
Wait for a report from the Police with new defendants after taking statements from dozens of those affected in four years
The espionage of dozens of celebrities that splashes the production company La Fábrica de la Tele, responsible among others for ‘Sálvame’, one of Telecinco’s flagships for 13 years, has been investigated since 2018 in the Court of Instruction number four of Madrid . Judge Marcelino Sexmero directs the case against a dozen individuals and legal entities, most of them officials and employees of the aforementioned production company or the ‘paparazzi’ Gustavo González, a collaborator of ‘Sálvame’, for a continued crime of revealing secrets, as explained legal sources.
In the case of the policeman involved, Ángel Jesús Fernandez Hita, currently retired, the same crime is attributed to him. In the case of him for supposedly providing information on these people to Gustavo González and those responsible for ‘Sálvame’, irregularly obtained from restricted access databases of the Police. The same sources explain that in his case the crime of revealing secrets – punishable by up to three years in prison and a fine – is for each of the individuals affected by his actions. In total, it is estimated that he collected information on more than 140 people.
The case includes tracking from 2014 to 2017 and the list includes Isabel Pantoja, Belén Esteban, José Ortega Cano, her son José Fernando, Kiko Matamoros, Alex Casademunt, Kiko Rivera, Aída Nizar, Yvonne Reyes, Omar Montes or Julio Aparicio , as has transpired.
In the case of Isabel Pantoja, the investigations include two searches in September and October 2014 on different reports related to the intimacy of the tonadillera. One of them is related to a robbery at her home. In 2017, the same official returned to look for personal information about her and medical data about her daughter would have been found in her records.
“no relationship”
La Fábrica de la Tele released a statement this Saturday in which it assured that “no director or editor of the program Save me has ever had any relationship with the investigated police officer.” However, the dissemination of the investigations of the ‘Moon operation’ coincided last week with the departure of the directors David Valldeperas and Alberto Díaz, on whom the case is directed.
Likewise, the production company focused its statement on the responsibility of González and the police officer and stated that in relation to ‘Sálvame’ the case “investigates the origin of information about twenty people who are protagonists of the social Time.news”, but that in no case affects La Fábrica de la Tele.
Currently, the case is awaiting an expanded report from the Police with new investigators. This announcement came when the judge – who has taken statements from dozens of witnesses and those affected in these four years – already had the indictment ready, so the investigation will take even longer.