"Having the last word does not mean having the truth".said Pilar Urbano in presenting her book Piece 25The report, key to understanding the ins and outs of the 'Nóos case', but with a certain irony he recommended "not to read the last three pages so as not to fall into melancholy. These are the pages dedicated to the sentence handed down by the judges of the Court of Palma, which acquitted the Infanta Cristina. Urbano began his speech on 'State plot to save the Infanta', the central theme of his latest book, in the Proa Communication Observatory, held at Degussa's headquarters.
For almost an hour, he gave the details of how the work was conceived and how he obtained the enormous amount of information with which he wrote the book. He said that spoke to the judges who are investigating or have investigated the most mediatic cases of recent years, but in private. None of them wanted anything to be published, "until I met Judge Castro", José Castro, instructor of the 'Nóos case'. He acknowledged that he had the good sense to address him when the investigation of the case was closed "and he felt free to speak". In addition to the 100 hours of conversation with the investigator, there were another 40 hours with the anti-corruption prosecutor in Palma, Pedro Horrach, and with the UDEF (Economic and Fiscal Crime Unit) police officers who carried out the searches, tax agents, defence lawyers, prosecutors, private and state lawyers. He spent three years researching.
Pilar Urbano narrated, in front of an expectant and often surprised audience, how the operation to save Cristina de Borbón is "a plot originating in the Head of State". and has its origins in a meeting called by King Juan Carlos in Zarzuela, attended by the then Head of the King's Household, Rafael Spottorno; the President of the Government, Mariano Rajoy; the Minister of Justice, Alberto Ruiz-Gallardón; the State Attorney General, Eduardo Torres-Dulce, "and a sixth very important person that I will not name, and who was only there as a hearing witness". From there it came out, according to Urbano, the slogan that "in no way can the Infanta sit as a defendant".
Who did the "dirty work", in the words of the veteran journalist, was the prosecutor HorrachI think he does it out of hierarchical obedience, because it is something that is established in the Prosecutorial Statute: he carries out orders that he must keep secret". Otherwise, it is difficult to understand this radical change, from accuser to defender, in a person who "has been a mastiff, a relentless persecutor of corruption up to that moment". She revealed that she has the "five pages" in which Horrach writes the 'operation to save the Infanta', "whose first point was 'that Zarzuela and the government shut up'...". "I showed them to Horrach and he admitted to me that he had indeed written the strategic roadmap to save the Infanta on his computer".
Urbano points out the year 2012 as the turning point in the case. At that point, he explains, Manos Limpias asks for the imputation of Cristina de Borbón, but the judge says he has no reasonable grounds to do so.. Shortly afterwards, he began to receive boxes of documents, invoices and emails from the defence of Diego Torres, Iñaki Urdangarin's former partner. From then on, a series of searches were carried out and statements were received from more than three hundred witnesses, and Judge Castro finds between 14 and 20 elements to charge the Infanta, The prosecutor Horrach and the state lawyer in the Balearic Islands, Mariángeles Berrocal, warn the prosecutors of this. The prosecutor opposes, after a 'consultation trip' to Madrid.
Following Pilar Urbano's narration, the case becomes a kind of thriller in which, in addition to officials from the Ministry of Justice and the Tax Agency or 'emissaries' trusted by the King, "well-dressed" CNI agents intervene, hackers allegedly making Cristina de Borbón's replies to her husband's emails disappear...
The speaker also made it very clear that Iñaki Urdangarin would not have received or obtained so much money from public institutions, nor such substantial board positions in private companies, without using his wife's title, and therefore his membership of the Royal Household. "If Urdangarin pulled the trigger, the smoking gun was her".She underlined, after mentioning the whole sequence of irregularities committed both at the Nóos Institute and at the company Aizoon. The explanation that the author of 'La pieza 25' has for an Infanta of Spain accepting this is "love, she is very, very much in love; he has a very strong self-esteem and she gives him what he wants: a play-station of economic power".
The acquittal of the Infanta in the case is, for Urbano, "the miracle of Saint Samantha Romero". (the magistrate of the Provincial Court of the Balearic Islands who presided over the court that judged the 'Nóos case')", as, in her opinion, the Infanta entered accused and left acquitted without having dismantled "not a single charge". As a result, Ana Tejeiro, the wife of Diego Torres, "who left traces", according to the case file, has also been let off the hook. And all of this, seasoned with invitations to Judge Castro to prevaricate on the part of the prosecutor Horrach (recorded by the latter!), or to meet in secret with the defence lawyer Miguel Roca, to which Judge Castro did not agree. "The ethics of the Royal House and the impartiality of the judiciary are under suspicion in the Nóos case. Only the judge is saved".concluded the rapporteur.
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