The Court of Instruction number 6 of the National Court has exonerated the Russian businessman

Mikhail Fridman

of the 'Zed case'.

Judge

Manuel García Castellón

has issued an order, to which

EL MUNDO

has had access

, in which he concludes that there are no indications of crime in the actions of the owner of Grupo Dia to stay with the technology company Zed at a very low price.

"Of the proceedings carried out up to the present moment and considering the investigation with respect to the investigated finished," emphasizes the instructor, "they do not allow to attribute in any way the condition of administrator of law" of Fridman, defended in this procedure by the lawyer Jesús Santos.

"This is evidenced by a simple examination of the corporate structures investigated in this instruction."

"In the same way, from the proceedings carried out in this court and the examination of the documentation provided,

there is no evidence, either documentary or witness,

to support the initial consideration of a possible participation in the investigated facts," the judicial resolution abounds.

The National Court highlights that last July, the partner responsible for the audit, P

rice Waterhouse Coopers

(PWC), who examined Zed's situation "between April 2013 and November 2014,

declared before the judge

that he found no evidence any that related Mikhail Fridman to the investigated companies, nor did he attribute any type of responsibility ".

Not in vain, "the reports and letters from PWC are included in the case," says the judge, which reveal the "lack of direct or indirect control over the companies, much less over the investigated operation."

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