• Corruption. The WhatsApp of the judge and the prosecutor who imprisoned Cursach: "Let shit broth"

One of the Balearic Anticorruption prosecutors, Miguel Ángel Subirán, has recorded hundreds of hours of private conversations with his colleagues from the Public Prosecutor's Office and police officers during the last year and has put part of his sound file at judicial disposal.

They will go up, who had been in Anticorruption for a decade and has investigated some cases of great relevance in the Islands during the last years. He has recently been removed from his position accused by the Police of committing a rosary of crimes in the investigation of the so-called Cursach case. This cause, in which they will participate, will go up, examines in depth the activities of Mallorca's biggest leisure entrepreneur, Bartolomé Cursach, owner of well-known discos like Tito's, BCM or, until the scandal broke out, the Mallorcan franchise of Pachá. In this summary, the investigators, with Raising to the front, have attributed the continued bribery to police and politicians, having arrived in an initial phase of the process to investigate him for drug trafficking and even to order an alleged murder. With the indications that were gathered against him, a preventive prison order was issued in March 2017 for which he remained in jail for 13 months, being able to leave prison after paying a million bail.

However, the investigations of the most important case of corruption that the courts of the Islands have at the moment jumped through the air after surfacing WhatsApp chats among the investigators, in which Subrán himself and the investigating judge Manuel Penalva participated.

In them, some of the members of the same would utter insults and disqualifications against those investigated, evidencing their lack of impartiality. They also alluded to allegedly irregular practices when making arrests in order to soften investigators and obtain favorable testimonies. Its content caused that the judge judge, Penalva, was removed from the case and took over in his place Judge Miquel Florit.

For this reason, and in parallel to the instruction of the Cursach case, it is now investigated whether those responsible for the investigation also formed a criminal group. This time to induce the testimony of key witnesses, filter reports to the media to remote control public opinion or directly fabricate false evidence.

Within the framework of this new police investigation against the initial heads of the investigations, the prosecutor Subrán attributes the "mendacious" accusations to a plot against him with the collaboration of the Balearic chief of Anticorruption, Juan Carrau.

He interprets the performance of who was his intimate friend and partner in multiple cases, as a maneuver to remove him from the cause, which would jeopardize the summary and could cause Cursach's acquittal.

Therefore, they will take the decision, at the beginning of the investigations against him, to record secretly and continuously his colleagues in the Public Prosecutor's Office, recording conversations with prosecutors of different ranks. In this way he treasures numerous communications that he has already announced to the Court of Instruction number 12 of Palma that he will progressively reveal to reinforce his defense strategy.

As a sample button, he has put in the hands of the new judge who instructs the Cursach case a 15-minute conversation with his partner Eduardo Navarro, one of the most respected prosecutors in the Islands. This recording has been provided by a letter signed jointly with the Criminal judge.

In the same, they will ask Navarro, who has also participated in some derivation of the case against the owner of the major clubs in Mallorca, why the persecution of his former friend Carrau is due against him. His partner admits that "everything has a very strange tufo" although he is always very cautious and avoids going beyond.

Both prosecutors address a specific episode starring Carrau in which he snatched a case that Navarro was carrying in relation to one of the protected witnesses on whom the investigation against Cursach was based. Specifically, the madam of a Palmesan brothel who said that the businessman bribed senior officials of the PP with sexual services and that he later said goodbye and turned against the investigators, also emerging private messages that had been exchanged with them.

Carrau, a pillar of the fight against corruption in the Islands in recent years, warned that they will go up and the criminal examining judge would have manipulated the witness and decided to take the case.

In the recorded conversation, Navarro admits to Subrán that "he did not like anything" Carrau's performance but that he does not know the reasons why he appropriated the summary he was carrying. «I told Tomeu -Bartomeu Barceló, chief prosecutor of the Balearic Islands- and Ladis -Ladislao Roig, lieutenant prosecutor of the Islands- that he didn't want to have anything to do with it» but «Tomeu took for granted what Juan told me (Carrau ) ».

However, the accusation against Cursach, despite the scandals led by the investigators, is still alive and the Prosecutor's Office came to claim eight years in prison for bribing officials.

The emergence of the secret sound file of Subirán now causes the outbreak of the internal war that has been waged by the Balearic Prosecutor for several years.

Hostilities between factions of the Public Prosecutor's Office began when one of its best-known members, Pedro Horrach, left the fiscal career to work as a lawyer. One of his first actions was, precisely, the defense of one of those involved in the Cursach case, which unleashed the anger of some of the prosecutors and police officers with whom he had worked and led the prosecutor of the Urdangarin case to withdraw from the cause.

But the fracture within the Public Ministry of the Islands was first seen when some of its younger members, such as Navarro, investigated the historic head of the Judicial Police in the Balearic Islands Antonio Cerdá.

The latter, who had led the Nóos case together with Horrach, was discovered by the Internal Affairs Unit of the National Police, being already retired, secretly meeting in the parking lot of a Mallorcan hospital with the member of one of the drug trafficking clans most important of Mallorca, in turn witness to the Cursach case. At the same time that a judge intervened the phones of this clan, which boasted of having paid a "big fish" of the Police.

The Balearic chief prosecutor, Tomeu Barceló, immediately disavowed his subordinates. He said publicly that Cerdá was his friend and a great policeman. The young prosecutors continued to investigate and seriously questioned the alibi of Cerdá to meet with the narco but have finally asked for the file.

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