Courts The 'nanny' of Podemos declares to the judge that she "never" took care of the children of Montero and Iglesias
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The former head of regulatory compliance of Podemos
Mónica Carmona
has appeared this Tuesday before the court that investigates the possible use as a nanny by Irene Montero of her advisor in the Ministry of Equality Teresa Arévalo.
The lawyer has ratified the complaint of these events that she made before the judge in the
Neurona case
.
Before the magistrate who has taken up this new case, Carmona has maintained that he received an internal complaint for these events and that later several employees of Podemos confirmed that the former deputy and current adviser served as a caregiver for the minister.
To the point that in internal circles she was known as "the nanny", as specified.
Carmona has appeared by videoconference from
Barcelona
.
The physical distance that separated him from the representation of Podemos has not prevented the interrogation from being very harsh, according to sources present in the statement.
Dismissal
One of the moments in which the tension has risen has been when the defense has demanded that Carmona indicate who had confirmed those supposed caregiver tasks.
Carmona - who appeared as a witness and, therefore, with the legal obligation to answer all questions - has used professional secrecy to avoid doing so.
An option that, despite the heated protests of the representatives of Podemos and Arévalo, Judge
José Manría Escribano
has accepted.
In addition to professional secrecy, Carmona has added a reason for not being able to offer more information: that when she began to investigate this matter, along with other alleged irregularities of Podemos, she was fired.
The same thing happened to another person in charge of regulatory compliance for training,
José Manuel Calvente
.
The complaints of both after their dismissal have ended up opening several investigations into the actions of Podemos.
The main one, on the legality of their payments to the consultant
Neurona
.
The dismissal was the reason why, for example, Carmona has not offered more details about who paid Arévalo, and therefore about what type of funds were being used for the work of caregivers.
On this aspect, the treasurer of the formation,
Daniel de Frutos
, and the manager,
Ester Val
, who argued that Arévalo never charged from Podemos, but from the parliamentary group when he obtained his seat,
declared as accused
.
Arévalo herself, who denied having been a babysitter, also appeared as a defendant before the judge.
The most he accepted was that on some occasion he had taken Irene Montero and Pablo Iglesias' daughter for a moment, as other people would have also done.
At the end of the statement, the head of legal affairs at Vox,
Marta Castro
, highlighted "the aggressiveness" of the defenses of those investigated, which in her opinion would evidence "the nervousness or internal war they have in Podemos."
For his part, the lawyer of Podemos
Raúl Maíllo
, who represents the treasurer of Podemos, has considered that Carmona's complaint is not valid as it consists of reference testimonies, which in his opinion would explain both the absence of the
Prosecutor's Office
in the statement such as the judge's decision not to require the lawyer to give the names of those within the party who had confirmed the use of Arevalo as a babysitter.
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