The Court of Instruction number 31 of Madrid has refused to reopen the Delcy casethe investigation into the landing at the Madrid-Barajas airport of Delcy Rodríguez, vice president of Venezuela, in January 2020 —when she was prohibited from entering the territory of the European Union—. Judge Marcelino Sexmero, who signs the resolution, has thus rejected Vox’s request to reinitiate the case after it revealed new details of that episode. As the Supreme Court already determined in this regard, the judge insists that these facts are “unrelated to criminal law” and are limited to a question of “political nature”: “And in that area the corresponding responsibility had to be resolved,” he points out.
He Delcy case It started in February 2020, but was shelved just nine months later by the court. The Provincial Court of Madrid ratified that decision in March 2021. Now, Vox has tried to give a new push to the complaint it filed more than four years ago for crimes of prevarication, omission of the duty to prevent crimes, disobedience and usurpation of functions . To this end, this party requested the reopening of the procedure by ensuring that “new evidence” has appeared.
The far-right party relies on a report from the Central Operational Unit (UCO) of the Civil Guard incorporated into the Koldo case. This summary investigates the alleged corruption plot that occurred in several administrations before, during and after the pandemic, for which, among others, the businessman Víctor de Aldama is accused; Koldo García, former advisor to the Ministry of Transportation; and the then minister, the socialist José Luis Ábalos. By intercepting the communications of the main suspects, investigators have found conversations with them in 2020.
However, the 31st Court of Instruction of Madrid emphasizes that none of this “has relevance” to the process known as Delcy case“whose object was always to determine whether the presence of Delcy Rodríguez in Spanish territory was criminal in nature.” “And these alleged facts [por Vox] “They do not make the indicated indications criminally relevant.” “It is not possible to understand the relationship that may exist between the present case, whose objective was to determine the action in the presence of a Venezuelan politician at the Barajas terminal, and the rescue or government subsidies to Globalia, an alleged purchase of gold for Bancasa and the intervention of this Koldo and Aldama”, the magistrate reproaches the ultra party.
