Antonio Piña, an instructor magistrate of the National Court, has proposed to sit on the bench and three of his former collaborators for another alleged espionage project in 2014 against a businessman and a lawyer, of whom they collected confidential data following the commission made by a couple (María Amaya SGS and José María Qe) who had done business with one of the victims – related to the participation in the participation in the majority society. With this decision, the judge thus ends another of the investigation lines of this macrocause, which has as its epicenter the former National Police agent. Villarejo for four other pieces of the summary, but is currently being released waiting for the resources presented to be resolved.
The summary. After opening in 2017, he has accumulated about fifty lines of research and dozens of processed. Since the case exploded with the police arrest, the National Court has been renovating the dark private businesses that the commissioner wove. More than a dozen pieces have already been sent to trial. Others have closed due to lack of evidence. And, according to legal sources, Judge Antonio Piña (who has replaced Manuel García-Castellón, who, at the head of the Central Court of Instruction 6) now provides to close the fringes that remain pending.
In that context, Judge Piña issued a new resolution on April 9 to process Villarejo and three of his alleged collaborators (the lawyer Rafael Redondo and the also police officers Antonio Bonilla and Constancio Riaño) for the so -called Hook Project, that assumption of espionage that revolves around the Aviation Major Society. According to a letter from the Anti -Corruption Prosecutor’s Office, to which El País had access, the pair formed by María Amaya SGS and José María Qe hired in 2014 the services of the plot led by the commissioner. This couple had invested about one million euros in Moyoral Aviation – voled at the service of medicalized aircraft -, without obtaining “any type of economic benefit”, after they offered them to participate in the business by lawyer Javier Ga, of whom the plot of Villarejo gathered confidential data.
Anticorruption insists that Villarejo created a “complex structure of societies” to offer multiple companies and individuals “consulting services, advice, private investigation and security”, while still exercising as an official of the National Police. This condition allowed him to offer his clients a series of confidential information that appears in restricted databases, in other judgments. According to the Hook Project summary, Villarejo’s plot agreed with María Amaya SGS to receive 25% of the money to recover.
During his first great trial, Villarejo defended that he could never commit any crime with his private businesses because they were part of the cover that he had as undercover police officer. His defense, exercised by lawyer Antonio García Cabrera, argued that the commissioner’s business group worked with permission from his superiors. However, Anticorruption discards that thesis and repeats: “Simulting the double police condition and private detective to carry out ‘intelligence’ work for its clients, providing as added value to your company its direct relationship with the security forces, accepting economic remuneration to make different opposite commissions in a palmary way to the duties inherent in the public service.”
In line with the Prosecutor’s Office, regarding the Hook Project, Judge Piña processes Villarejo, Redondo, Bonilla and Riaño for the crimes of revelation of secrets and bribery. The magistrate rules out sending María Amaya SGS and José María Qe to the bench, considering that there are no sufficient indications that they knew they were hiring a police officer. For its part, the instructor also files the cause against Gemma Alcalá, wife of Villarejo and defended by lawyer Sergio Nuño Díez de la Lastra.
