• Appeal..Anti-corruption asks that Corinna's statement at the London embassy be annulled

  • Investigated ... Corinna relies on the Prosecutor's Office to now ask the judge to file the case

The head of the Central Court of Instruction Number 6 of the National Court

Manuel García Castellón

has agreed to postpone the statement of the former close friend of Juan Carlos I, Corinna Larsen, in the so-called

Carol

piece

, where the commission that the German businesswoman allegedly made commissioner José Manuel Villarejo to spy on a personal assistant.

In a car, to which EL MUNDO has had access, the magistrate explains that the decision to obtain a statement from Larsen by means of videoconference at the Spanish embassy in London on September 28 was due "to the current health crisis generated by the Covid-19 disease, and the consequent limitations and restrictions imposed by the Government of the United Kingdom on citizens residing in that country who travel from the territory of Spain. "

However, the judge explains that the practice of the statement of the investigated by videoconference in no case "can dispense with the necessary compliance with the budgets and requirements that determine the guarantee of its effectiveness" and adds that, "in view of the difficulties detected to materialize the displacement of the Judicial Commission to the United Kingdom, and thereby ensure the necessary control of the effectiveness of the declaration ", it should be annulled.

García Castellón intended to travel to London to take a statement from Larsen, but "once it has been established that the mere presence of the lawyer for the investigated woman at the Embassy cannot serve to ensure that all the requirements and assumptions provided for in Spanish criminal procedure legislation are met, the Declaration must be left without effect, and consequently, the appeal for reform filed by the Public Prosecutor's Office must be partially upheld, "the order maintains.

Likewise, the instructor agrees to issue a European Investigation Order to make the statement as the former close friend of the King Emeritus in order to be able to question her in a UK court soon.

In a tough appeal for reform, which has now been partially upheld, Anti-Corruption Prosecutors

Miguel Serrano

and

Ignacio Stampa

assured that the instructor is going to take a statement as investigated by videoconference from the Spanish diplomatic headquarters, "he was bordering on compliance with the obligations contracted by Spain in the framework of international legal cooperation and, specifically, article 197 of Law 23/2014 on mutual recognition of criminal decisions in the European Union ".

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