The judge investigating the
nanny case
has summoned a former Podemos press officer to testify, whom the minister's former escort pointed out as the person who often took care of the children of Montero and Pablo Iglesias.
This is
Gara Santana
, who in 2018 was in the communication team of the purple formation.
The judge went to Podemos to notify him of the appointment and also to inform him about the circumstances of the contract he had: if it was a contract with Podemos or with his parliamentary group, "clarifying in this second case if his salary was paid by said political party or by the Congress of Deputies".
The judge distinguishes the two assumptions, taking into account that if Congress paid, public money would be spent on paying whoever was in charge of caring for the children of Montero and Iglesias.
Given the possibility that this involved a crime, Gara Santana should appear as a defendant.
If the person paying was Podemos, the subpoena would be as a witness.
This follows from the resolution notified this Thursday by the Madrid judge
Juan José Escalonilla
: "It is agreed to take a statement from said person identified as Gara, and that the popular accusation [Vox] proponent of said evidence identifies as Gara Santana. As for The condition that she will hold in said declaration will depend on the origin of her emoluments, as to whether in the exercise of the aforementioned position she was paid by the Podemos political party or by the Congress of Deputies.
The instructions"
The judge also accepts another procedure proposed by Vox.
He asks Montero's former escort, Elena González Jiménez, to provide the court with a copy of the Telegram chats "in which she received instructions, relating solely and exclusively to the task of picking up the aforementioned person identified as Gara."
In her appearance before the judge as a witness, the former escort indicated that on numerous occasions she herself drove Montero's press officer to her home in
Galapagar
to take care of the children.
Santana herself complained to her about having to do these tasks, according to the witness.
Until the escort's statement, the babysitting tasks had focused on
Teresa Arévalo
, a former deputy for Podemos and Montero's advisor on Equality.
The judge questioned her and she denied having provided that service beyond having once held any of the children in her arms.
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