Interior admits that the dismissal of Pérez de los Cobos was for breaching the communication of proceedings

The Ministry of the Interior has admitted that the dismissal of Colonel Diego Pérez de los Cobos as head of the Commandery of the Civil Guard of Madrid occurred for having failed to comply with the procedure for communication of proceedings, although he points out that this communication should be "alone effects of knowledge, not of the content of the same ".

This has been stated by the department headed by Fernando Grande Marlaska following an information published by El Confidencial, which includes the official proposal for dismissal made by the director of the Civil Guard, María Gámez.

In that letter it is specified that the loss of confidence occurs because the colonel did not report the "development of investigations and actions of the Civil Guard in the operational framework and of the Judicial Police for the purposes of knowledge."

After this information, the Ministry maintains that the dismissal of Colonel Pérez de los Cobos, is part of "the process of remodeling the Civil Guard and is materialized, as explained in the proposal for dismissal, due to a loss of confidence derived, between others, because the procedure for communication of actions was violated, for the sole purpose of knowledge, not of the content thereof, which is due to the direction of the Civil Guard through the chain of command. "

The Grande-Marlaska department adds that "the direction of the Civil Guard and the Ministry of the Interior were not aware of the proceedings, nor did they have access to the report."

A report that, however, "was the subject of leaks even before the parties to the process had access to it," slide from Interior, adding: "trust is a nuclear element in a position such as that held by the Colonel, for whom he was appointed on a discretionary basis, and for whom the highest levels of neutrality, professionalism and communication are needed. Without these elements, daily work cannot be carried out optimally. "

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