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He was the most anticipated character of the day. The former president of the Community of Madrid, Ignacio Gonzalez, has arrived at a leisurely pace down Calle Mayor after one in the afternoon. The one who was the fourth summoned on the eighth day of the investigation commission came willing to put an end to espionage, a “mafia practice” and “despicable” that he suffered years ago to “use it politically.” “Espionage is not isolated, it is recurrent and there are many more people involved. They have been operating like this with the consent of some part of the justice system and this operation does tremendous damage to the rule of law and cannot be used to try to destroy the reputation of many people. I am not the only one who has suffered them », assured the former popular president, who has affirmed that his only motivation is to put an end to this type of « criminal acts ».
González, who now works as an official in the Madrid City Council after leaving politics, has dedicated several minutes of his first speech in the commission to reiterate that he has “no knowledge of the espionage to which they refer except known by the media ». His purpose, he has asserted, is to recount the five espionages that he suffered in the last decade with the aim of removing him from his political responsibilities. Inquiries that led to the opening of judicial cases such as Lezo or Punic.
For González, these espionage practices have not only occurred within his former party, but also other political and business organizations. «I know that there are people from other parties, specifically the PSOE, who have been victims of espionage», he stated to set the socialist Joaquín Almunia as an example. “I am not the only one who has suffered them. I have been the victim of this espionage up to five times », he recounted.
Accompanied by a folder full of documentation that he has delivered to include in the minutes, the former Madrid president has detailed that the first espionage was in 2009 during an institutional visit to Colombia (Lezo case). “Due to the alleged espionage of Isabel Díaz Ayuso, an interview with the detective appears, where he acknowledges that he was involved in an investigation of my person in relation to Canal de Isabel II in Colombia,” he indicated, showing the press clipping, as proof that Gutiez He has admitted the facts he denounces.
The second and third cases have to do with the environment of his former partner Francis Granados (Punica case) and another related to his attic in Estepona (Marbella). Behind the other investigation was also the ex-commissioner Villarejo and Gutiez (Mira detectives) also initiated investigations commissioned by a real estate company. “Mr. Gutiez denied it and refused to testify to the point that they came to have the payment invoices from the real estate group. They admit that yes, they hire him, but that it is to spy on another person with whom he competed to lead a soccer team », he has indicated.
first inquiries
The day began with a statement by the spokesperson for the municipal government, Inmaculada Sanz, who assured that a few days before Jose Luis Martinez-Almeida infected with Covid, in mid-December of last year, the councilor told him the “rumor” that had reached him about an alleged plot to spy on the environment of
Isabel Diaz Ayuso. She entrusts the information that had come to her from the environment of the president of the Community of Madrid that a worker from the Municipal Housing and Land Company (EMVS) had contacted a detective agency to hire his services.
This information revealed by the also Security delegate in the investigation commission indicates that she was the first person in the municipal environment to know about the case, since it was not until last January when the councilor transferred his concern to the Councilor for Housing and president of the EMVS, Alvaro Gonzalez.
«He asked me how to proceed and I agreed with what he proposed: that Mr. González make inquiries to see if there were contacts with the detective. What he was thinking seemed correct to me », has indicated Sanz. “Mr. González makes the inquiries that you know and the detective, as you have had the opportunity to hear, denies those assumptions”, added the municipal spokeswoman who believes that Almeida only “speaks with Carabante (Environment and Mobility delegate)”: »I have no information that anyone else knew about it until the day it came out in the press«.
Once the inquiries were made by Carabante and González, the delegate learned “a posteriori” the “conclusions”. «I did not know the specific details of the investigations, but I did know the conclusion and that is that it was discarded. I was informed of the conclusions reached, which is that there has been no type of irregularity, the city council’s controls are sufficient », she asserted.
For her part, the delegate of Culture and spokesperson for the PP in the Madrid City Council has framed the whole matter in “only ‘rumor, rumor, rumor’ nothing more”, citing the well-known song by Raffaella Carrà. «The things that remain in rumor, do not worry me, I am worried about the certainties. What is happening in the Spanish government seems serious to me, because it has been proven », she has launched.
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