Antonio Navarro Tacoronte, known as the Mediator in the corrupt plot allegedly led by former socialist deputy Juan Bernardo Fuentes Curbelo (Tito Berni) has opposed the magistrate investigating the matter extending the investigation time after the judge asked the parties their opinion on lengthening the investigation.
Rachid Mohamed Hammu, Navarro Tacoronte’s lawyer, understands that “there is no possibility of extension” due to the time elapsed since the procedure began and the amount of material and human resources available to Judge ÁngelesLorenzo-Cáceres.
In the opinion of Mohamed Hammu, the investigation must end and he reproaches the magistrate, plasma, “the continuous extension of the procedure.”
In his statement of allegations, the lawyer recalls that the case began in January 2022, since then – he insists – a large number of proceedings have been carried out.
It also highlights all the resources available to the judge, since she has the collaboration of a “crowd” of official organizations that participate in the investigation. It should be remembered that the instructor works with the Tax Agency, Internal Affairs of the Civil Guard, the Economic and Fiscal Crime Unit (Udef) of the National Police, the General State Intervention, the Treasury, the National Market Commission and Competition and has asked for help from European bodies.
The defense is especially harsh with the magistrate’s criteria and this is reflected in her brief of allegations: “What is perceived is that we are facing a general cause, in which the object of the procedure has not just been defined, nor is it It will never be defined, since facts are not investigated, but what is being investigated are terminals and electronic information storage devices in search of new crimes and people linked to them.That is, we are facing a continuous subjective and objective expansion of the procedure , which must be put to an end.”
“The procedures carried out and those agreed are more than sufficient, and this instruction may incur in a generalized inquisition on the lives of those investigated. The instruction cannot be maintained to search for new crimes, but rather to investigate those that are already the object of these preliminary proceedings,” he reproaches.
Last Wednesday, the instructor asked the parties involved to rule on a six-month extension of the investigation.
He made this request before the expiration of the extension in the instruction, also set at six months and close to completion. Lorenzo-Cáceres substantiated his position in the fact that there are proceedings to be carried out and reports pending to be provided by the investigative units and the General State Intervention.
A week ago, Mohamed Hammu filed an appeal before the Tenerife Court questioning the basis on which the investigation is based: the delivery of mobile phones by his client in which they reflected the activities of the alleged criminal plot.
The lawyer asked the court to authorize the practice of various procedures with which he seeks to clarify the circumstances of his arrest, which he concluded once he had authorized the examination of his terminals. Ángeles Lorenzo-Cáceres denied her practice, accusing the defense of being close to procedural fraud.
Mohamed Hammu considered it “patent” (and stated so in his appeal) that there was “a certain coercive element in the successive extensions of the detention” suffered by the mediator.
“We understand that there are well-founded suspicions that the consent for access to the terminals has been obtained under the lee of the painful personal situation to which Mr. Navarro was subjected, even being deprived of the mandatory legal assistance at certain times,” it added. in his brief to the court that reviews the decisions of the investigating judge.
The “culmination of the strangeness” -he continued- is that once free, he was questioned “as a witness” about the performance of the plot around the former PSOE deputy. Navarro Tacoronte ended up accused of bribery and influence peddling. It was already the ‘Mediator case’.
“It is very striking that, within those intense 48 hours, Mr. Antonio Navarro Tacoronte ends up giving a statement as a witness in which, in that case, without any limitations, he gives his consent for the full dumping of his terminals. [ …] The consent given in these conditions does not show many signs of legality. […] It is unquestionable that this statement is null because the right to effective judicial protection and the right not to testify against oneself are violated”, concluded the writing on which the Court of Tenerife has to rule.
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