Two exviceminists of Venezuela, Nervis Villalobos and Javier Ochoa Alvarado, have told this Monday at the National Court that former members of the National Police dome contacted them a decade ago to ask for information about Podemos, according to legal sources present in their statement. Villalobos and Alvarado have appeared as witnesses to Judge Santiago Pedraz, who within the Ministry of Interior during the government of Mariano Rajoy (PP), when left -wing formation broke into enormous force in Congress. During his interrogation, Villalobos has affirmed that he even facilitated “police sheets” of some members of Podemos to identify them.
The statements of the two exviceminists have occurred within the investigations open by Judge Santiago Pedraz, who investigates whether the National Police and the Interior Ministry, when Jorge Fernández Díaz was in command, launched a battery of maneuvers to “conduct prospective investigations and outside any police interest” on the leaders of the party led by Pablo Iglesias, without control of a judge. According to Podemos, this dirty war was aimed at filtering information with false data to a certain press – which published them by citing “police sources” – to discredit the political force before public opinion.
This dirty war included him in search of alleged dirty rags of Podemos. , at least eight witnesses placed the Patriotic Police From Rajoy behind these maneuvers: among them, the former Venezuelan vicinistros Villalobos and Alvarado, who on Monday have confirmed it at the National Court. According to legal sources present in his interrogation, Villalobos has explained to Pedraz that Bonifacio Díaz, an chief inspector who was under the orders of Eugenio Pino, a maximum operating command of the police, met him in Washington in 2015 and later, once he landed in Spain, they came to teach police chips from members of Podemos.
Nervis Villalobos, former Deputy Minister of Electricity, already pointed out in 2019 against the Patriotic Policethe alleged group that operated in the police during the Fernández Díaz stage to try to discredit political adversaries of the PP: “They have always asked me for information. They were trying to get information about Podemos. They always asked questions about that. They wanted to know if I knew someone who had evidence of the illegal financing of Podemos, ”he said then.
Javier Alvarado Ochoa, former Vice Minister of Electricity, has confirmed that he also met with pine twice in 2016. This former Venezuelan position already reported in another Court of Madrid – which investigates one – which met “twice” in January and February 2016 with Eugenio Pino in the same dispatch of the command of the body; and that he asked for information about the formation of churches. “[Pino]walking through my documents, he asks me if I have something relative to the party we can […] I tell the director Pino: ‘No, but I can talk to intelligence agencies to see what they have, ”he said then.
