Francisco Javier Espinosa, the general of the Civil Guard imprisoned for his involvement in the ‘Meditor case’, ran into the firmness of the magistrate directing the investigation shortly before he was sent to prison on February 16.
During the interrogation, he gave all kinds of answers, some of them as strange as that the large sums of money found in the search of his house – 61,000 euros in bundles of 5,000 – were due to his belief that the pandemic would follow. a hecatomb.
“During the pandemic, as we thought the world was going to end, I took 15,000 euros out of the bank and put it at home,” he replied.
Thus, he also tried to justify the large sums found at his home by alluding to his professional past as a prominent member of the Armed Institute. “I have earned a lot of money during my professional life,” he settled.
His explanations exasperated the judge at times, who cornered him with a slow but firm interrogation in which he even asked him why he was hiding the passages that make up the summary.
“Why does he have to make up reality?” he asked.
The magistrate also alluded to her rank within the Civil Guard, surprised why she did not know where the limits were with businessmen.
“The purpose of businessmen in this life is to spend money. That’s what meetings are for, not to spend. Don’t you think about it?” and she adds: “If I don’t want anything, I don’t invest my time in exchange for anything,” reflected the magistrate.
In the judicial statement, to which EL MUNDO has had access, Espinosa recounts how he met the mediator and rejects the contacts with the former PSOE deputy Bernardo Fuentes Curbelo that the investigators attribute to him.
General Francisco Espinosa sat on the bench, ready to testify after being arrested for alleged crimes of influence peddling, falsehood and money laundering, among others
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