Starting this Monday, the National Court (AN) will judge the businessman Javier López Madrid, the retired commissioner José Manuel Villarejo and his partner Rafael Redondo for the alleged order that the former gave to the police officer to harass Dr. María Elisa Pinto due to a conflict. staff.
The oral hearing will start on Monday at 10:00 a.m. and will likely last until Thursday, the day that would be heard for sentencing, according to the calendar set by the Fourth Section of the Criminal Chamber.
It should be remembered that the first date scheduled for the oral hearing of this separate piece number 24 of what is known as the ‘Villarejo case’ was canceled in the first instance and was rescheduled at the request of the parties.
The judge of the National Court proposed sending them to trial in March of last year against the interests of the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office, which requested the provisional file upon understanding that the perpetration of the crime of bribery that the three are accused of was not duly justified. . The magistrate followed the criteria of the doctor’s defense, which requests sentences of six years in prison for López Madrid and Villarejo, and four for Redondo.
The Public Ministry defended in its report that the purpose of the piece was to investigate the bribery and not the conflict between López Madrid and Pinto. “These are facts that not only exceed the scope of this piece – focused exclusively on the crime of bribery – but also because all these circumstances are already investigated in the judicial procedures followed in the Investigative Courts of Madrid, not resulting in compliance “It is the right for the same facts to be investigated in two different courts,” he indicated.
In his order, the magistrate recalled the account of events, and pointed out that everything started in September 2013 when López Madrid hired Villarejo, an active commissioner, to “help him finalize a personal matter in relation to María Elisa Pinto. In December 2013, the businessman went to the doctor’s office accompanied by Redondo, who came as a lawyer by order of Villarejo, and they told Pinto “to leave him alone, to stop, and that the police would go to the doctor’s office.” see it.”
POLICE MEANS TO DISCREDIT IT
During 2014, and according to what was agreed with the businessman, Villarejo allegedly harassed the doctor by carrying out follow-ups and trying to prevent her from reporting López Madrid for harassment. The judge pointed out that “he used police means” to discredit her. “He accessed his private information without authorization and attempted to interfere in the police investigation, requesting information about the status of the investigations, manipulating the police investigation and making predictions about the outcome of a lineup in which he would have to take part,” it added. .
The magistrate reported on the telephone contacts between Villarejo and López Madrid, and added to this that he also had contact with other police officers during the investigation of the events reported by Pinto. Specifically, he was referring to the former head of the UCAO Enrique García Castaño and inspector Alberto Carba, who was the one who investigated Pinto’s complaint.
“This police officer sent several emails to Javier López Madrid informing him of the status of the investigation, and receiving instructions. These communications took place between October 16 and November 23, both months of 2015,” said Magistrate Manuel García Castellon.
The judge also noted in his order that in a conversation dated January 26, 2017, Villarejo stated that he would demand from López Madrid “an amount of money as compensation for the actions he developed in resolving his private conflict.”
And he included the literal: “When everything is over, when I file a complaint against this girl and all those who have helped her and such and such, I will talk to him, with Javierito, give me a little bit of money, because you have put me in a mess.” ’embolao’ and you haven’t even called me to tell me. I’m going to tell him: little one, damages.”
