• Hearing. We can downgrade the request for sentence in the trial for the 'pendrive' of the Pujol but maintains that three crimes were committed
  • Courts.Villarejo declares that the 'pendrive' against the Pujols was delivered by a detective who was angry with his company

This Friday the trial against the former deputy director of the Police (DAO) Eugenio Pino and a chief inspector under his command for using information of illicit origin against Jordi Pujol Ferrusola has concluded . The accusations continue to accuse, but in the case of Podemos something less. The lawyer from the political group, Alejandro Gámez , has reviewed the conviction request that initially was 10 and a half years for each accused. Finally, he claims six and a half years for Pino and five for Bonifacio Díez .

Podemos, who has carried out the popular accusation, attributes to Pino discovery and revelation of secrets, false testimony and procedural fraud. The reduction of sentence comes from the fact that in the end he considers that the procedural fraud - the attempt to deceive the judge - remained a simple attempt. As for Díez, in addition to the four-year drop that this revision of the procedural scam entails, it removes the crime of false testimony, for which he is freed from another year and a half in prison.

The other accusation, which is directly exercised by Pujol Ferrusola, has upheld his request for two and a half years in prison for each for discovery and disclosure of secrets. The lawyer Cristóbal Martell has considered that Pino committed the crime regardless of the commissioner who gave him the flash drive , because it contained data obtained in an unfailingly unlawful manner.

The usual was done

The Prosecutor's Office , for its part, has stayed where it was before the trial began, in the petition for acquittal. The public prosecutor has exposed before Section 23 of the Provincial Court that although the facts had developed in good part as the accusations relate, there would be no crime. In his opinion, when the former DAO received a flash drive with information that could be useful in the investigation against Jordi Pujol Ferrusola, he did the reasonable thing: refer him to Udef, the unit that investigated the matter in case it could be useful to him. It is the normal procedure of the Police when it receives anonymous data or confidences.

The prosecutor has also objected that it has not been proven at all that the information contained in the computer memory - from business data to personal matters such as surgical operations or the school tasks of the children - had an illegal origin. "It has not been established that the defendants were aware of what was inside the flash drive and that they knew it had an illegal origin. We did not know where the information came from and after the oral trial we still do not know where it came from," added the representative of the Public Ministry.

The doubts that lead to requesting acquittal extend to the origin of the information. Nor is it clear that it came from Pujol Ferrusola's computers. An expert could have been made to verify it, "said the prosecutor, adding that a book had already been published in which most of the data was already published.

Chain of custody

The defenses of Pino and Díaz have supported the position of the Public Ministry, which although it does not oblige the court, usually has great weight in the sentences. In the case of Díez, the lawyer María Ponte has underlined that the some, losses and reappearances of the pendrive suppose that the chain of custody has been lost that can link her defendant with the allegedly criminal acts. The prosecutor also maintains that there are doubts that the portable memory that Pino remembers having received and that Díez would have delivered was the same one that was eventually contributed to the investigation of the National Court.

The trial, which has concluded this Friday, will provoke the first sentence for acts attributed to the so-called patriotic police , who supposedly acted at the time of the popular Jorge Fernández Díaz in the Ministry of the interior . Activities are attributed to that same police such as the Kitchen operation to snatch Luis Bárcenas the compromising material for the PP.

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