Mónica Oltra, two and a half years under the political and judicial spotlight for her ex-husband's abuse of a ward

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Mónica Oltra has had the political and judicial focus on her figure since September 2019, when her ex-husband,

sat for the first time on a bench to be tried for a crime of

committed on a 14-year-old minor under the guardianship of the Generalitat between the end of 2016 and February 2017. Two months later, in December 2019, he was sentenced to five years in prison, but the alleged responsibility of the Ministry of Equality did not surface until some time later.

In March 2021, the vice president assured that in the process against the educator "the Ministry has not been tried, but a case of sexual abuse."

The investigation of the actions of the Ministry of Equality that has led to the imputation of Oltra herself began just two months later and through two different channels.

The abused girl, now of legal age and represented by the lawyer and leader of the far-right Spain 2000 party,

- filed a complaint in May 2021 for the alleged crime of abandonment and omission of the duty of guard and custody before the Investigating Court 15 of Valencia against the territorial director of the Ministry of Equality, the director of the reception center, the psychologist of the minor's section and the official who instructed the informative file that concluded that the girl's account was not credible.

At that time, the sentence that sentenced the ex-husband of the vice president to five years in prison was appealed before the TSJ and both the Prosecutor's Office and the judge opted for provisional dismissal in October 2021.

In parallel, the

Association , chaired by the former leader of Vox

, filed a complaint against Oltra and eight other officials in the TSJ for the alleged crimes of cover-up and obstruction of justice, prevarication and embezzlement of public funds.

In that complaint, he assured that the ministry tried to cover up the educator as he was the ex-husband of the vice president.

The Civil and Criminal Chamber, then made up of two magistrates who have returned to see the case, the rapporteur

and former Anticorruption prosecutor

, dismissed the complaint that in June 2021 because at that time "no objective evidence was provided" that Oltra "could have ordered any of the other defendants" to carry out actions "aimed at protecting Luis Ramírez Icardi."

However, they considered "fully justified the initiation of a criminal investigation" and did not deny that the facts were presented as "clearly suspicious", but pointed out that the court should be the one to analyze them and present "concrete elements" on the responsibility of the vice president

In parallel, the defense of the minor had appealed the dismissal before the Fourth Section of the

, which in December ordered Instruction 15 to reopen the investigation with a demolition car in which it stated that the four officials who had knowledge of the abuses in 2017 they omitted their duty to report and their duty to protect and "instead, they victimized the girl, discrediting her" and carried out "a kind of paralegal investigation that they did not inform the

with the sole purpose of deactivating the complaint", detailed the Court.

The two cases then converged in the investigation carried out by Judge Vicente Ríos, which concluded with the indictment of five officials and other senior officials and a request to the TSJ for the investigation of Vice President Oltra, which she has accepted today.

The vice president thus faces the decision that, on several occasions in the Valencian parliament, she has requested from her political rivals who have been judicially charged.

Specifically in 2010 she told former president

: "The day I see myself like you, vilified, caught in all the possible lies and more, I feel the laughing stock of all of Spain and appearing more in the cartoons of the comedians than in the news, I will go home."

Now, in recent months he has always defended that his cause has nothing to do with corruption and that it is "a political hunt by the extreme right."

In fact, in the Cortes he showed a photo of Camps himself, the businessman Alberto de Rosa, manager of Ribera Salud and brother of the senator and former Minister of Camps Fernando de Rosa, and the complainant Cristina Seguí.

"Follow the money trail, which leads us down a path of roses. What do they have in common? The hunt against me," he assured.

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