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In the final stretch of the investigation of what is known as the Ghali case, the

Prosecutor

's Office has aligned itself with the State Attorney's Office to push towards the filing of the proceedings.

Thus, the Public Ministry has addressed directly to the Provincial Court of Zaragoza -bypassing the investigating magistrate- to request the immediate dismissal of the case as it understands that there is no reason to continue with the investigations.

In his appeal to which EL MUNDO has had access, prosecutor

Juan Carlos Fraj

argues that there are no reasons for former Foreign Minister Arancha González Laya to continue to be charged and refute the thesis that serves as the basis for the judge to maintain her as an investigator.

The instructor

Rafael Lasala

, in his last order, insisted that it was necessary to continue investigating to find out if it was decided to assist

Brahim Ghali

and allow his access to Spain, knowing that his declaration as being investigated in two criminal cases in the National Court was interested. and tried to locate it several times.

Fraj turns him down.

"There is no prevaricating behavior on the part of the investigated", she resolves.

The prosecutor, likewise, informs the Court that not even the highest police commanders knew that Ghali had open cases in the National Court and he does so to wonder why the minister should have known then.

And to illustrate his conclusions, he recovers González Laya's statement before the judge for the Hearing.

"She did not verify the judicial situation of that individual, who starts from a request made by a third country and trusts international relations governed by good faith," he begins.

And he adds: "That if he had known or known that there was any difficulty for the entry of this person into our country he would never have allowed it. That he was unaware of the existence of the causes of the National High Court", reasoning later the former minister what sense it has that a third country that knows that this man has causes in Spain puts him in the lion's den."

To support its argument, the Public Ministry goes back to the first action of the Police.

"On the contrary, the reality of the facts (according to the investigative steps carried out) is as follows: as soon as Ghali's presence in Spain is known and the existence of the resolution of the Central Investigative Court 5 locating him , it is brought to the attention of the competent judicial authority, that when the state of health of said person allows it, it receives a statement as investigated ".

"The time lapse between the entry into Spain of Brahim Ghali and the communication of such a circumstance to the judicial authority (which occurs when it becomes known) is so short that it lacks any relevance, not to configure the criminal type of prevarication, in which, according to what was stated above, after examining the omission prevarication, it would not fit, if not to include any other criminal type, also referred to," he insists to support the file.

The Zaragoza Court must resolve these two appeals that request to close the case and the appeal presented by the lawyer for the popular accusation, Antonio Urdiales, who asks that it be reopened with respect to González Laya's number two, the diplomat Camilo Villarino, for whom the Judge closed the matter.

Parallel to these requests, the instructor has already received the reports he expected about the identity of the "man in a suit and tie" who organized and directed the landing of the plane at the Zaragoza Air Base.

According to the dossier prepared by the Information Brigade of the Zaragoza National Police Corps, it is the colonel of the air base.

The popular accusation requested this diligence to find out if the person who coordinated the operation was linked to the Interior or to the secret services.

Likewise, Judge Lasala has also received the action protocol that governs the Zaragoza military base.

"All travelers and crew who do not belong to the EU or to the Schengen area must carry out the formalities of passports and Customs."

Finally, the new proceedings also incorporate the statement of the captain who was in charge of the airport the day the leader of the Polisario Front landed in Spain.

The witness assures that that same afternoon they called him, he says, "from the General Staff of the Air Force telling him that an Algerian plane was going to arrive with a diplomat, that it already had all the necessary authorizations for landing and that, in addition, the flight It was guaranteed by Foreign Affairs".

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