Anti-corruption calls for Corinna's statement at London embassy to be annulled

• Anti-corruption. Corinna's investigation deflates: the Prosecutor's Office concludes that Villarejo was no longer a commissioner when the alleged commission took place

• Hearing: The judge allows Corinna to testify from the Spanish embassy in London for the alleged assignment to Villarejo

The

has asked the head of the

of the National Court

to annul the statement as investigated by the German businesswoman Corinna Larsen in the

, scheduled for September 28 at the embassy Spanish in London.

In an appeal for reform, a subsidiary of appeal, to which EL MUNDO has had access, prosecutors

and

maintain that the fact that the instructor is going to take a statement as investigated from the King's former close friend by videoconference from the Spanish diplomatic headquarters "undertakes compliance with the obligations contracted by

in the framework of international legal cooperation and, specifically,

of

on mutual recognition of criminal decisions in the European Union".

According to Anticorrupción, which in a previous report doubted that the crime of bribery existed in the

because the police officer José Manuel Villarejo was no longer an active commissioner when Larsen's alleged assignment took place, "the Spanish embassies are considered territory national but this evidence cannot serve as a cover to evade compliance with the provisions that regulate international legal cooperation, in such a way that the execution of the diligence of the Spanish embassy in the United Kingdom would violate the current legislation to the detriment of sovereignty of the required state ".

The last agreed on September 1, judge García Castellón issued an order where he agreed to allow the businesswoman to testify from the Spanish embassy in London as accused of a possible bribery crime.

The instructor adopted this decision after Larsen's defense filed an appeal asking the magistrate to change his appearance at the Hearing on September 28 for a statement via videoconference from the Spanish embassy in the British capital, due to the pandemic situation for the coronavirus.

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Courts Villarejo claims to have received an offer to unveil "banking structures" that would lead to the imputation of Juan Carlos I

JusticeThe Hearing delays to September 28 the statement of Corinna Larsen and the appointment in person

SpainVillarejo supports Corinna Larsen's appeal to close the case that affects them in the National Court

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