• Justice The attorney general now rectifies and postpones the decision on the prescription of the murder of Miguel Ángel Blanco

  • Courts This is how the prosecutor in the case of Miguel Ángel Blanco stood before his superiors: "I see his instruction as inadmissible"

On July 20, the prosecutor of the National Court

Vicente González Mota

stood up to his boss when he received the instruction given by the current State Attorney General, Álvaro García Ortiz, to consider the investigation open to the former ETA leaders for the murder of Miguel Ángel Blanco.

Three days later, EL MUNDO revealed the internal email of the chief prosecutor of the Court, Jesús Alonso, where it was made clear that the order came from the then head of the Technical Secretariat - the current attorney general.

This medium also published the report with the position of the prosecutor González Mota, considering the instruction that his superior had transmitted to him inadmissible, among other issues, because it was not the procedurally opportune moment to declare the statute of limitations given that it was a summary and the instruction was found. in an initial investigation phase and prior to conclusion.

Days after the revelations published by this newspaper, the State Attorney General's Office proceeded to open a criminal investigation and another disciplinary investigation into the leak to the prosecutor who saw grounds for declaring one of the cruelest murders committed by the terrorist group ETA not prescribed.

Neither the Prosecutor's Office of the High Court nor the prosecutor promoting the Disciplinary Action have been able, on the other hand, to determine that González Mota was the author of a crime of revealing secrets or of any disciplinary offense.

Meanwhile, the prosecutor of the Court has been investigated by the department headed by García Ortiz for seven months.

The last archival decree admits that only "mere conjectures or suspicions" weighed against the person under investigation.

As highlighted by the documentation in the possession of this newspaper, on August 3 the Tax Inspectorate opened an informative procedure to the prosecutor of the National Court -which later became a disciplinary file- and, in addition, sent them to the Prosecutor's Office of the Supreme Court to proceed to open a criminal investigation into González Mota for the alleged commission of a crime of revealing secrets.

He claimed that there were indications of criminal action by the prosecutor.

However, on September 23, the first file arrived.

The Supreme Prosecutor's Office considered that a possible disclosure of secrets could not be investigated because the information disclosed by EL MUNDO did not generate "criminally relevant" damage to the investigation of the Miguel Ángel Blanco case.

However, the TS prosecutor lieutenant opened the door for the AN prosecutor to be disciplined for having allegedly breached the duty of secrecy.

the last file

Subsequently, on December 22, the Fiscal Inspection directed by the prosecutor

María Antonia Sanz

sent the prosecutor promoting the Disciplinary Action,

Manuel Moix,

his proposal to open a disciplinary file against González Mota, whom they accused of revealing the strategy of the Prosecutor's Office of the Hearing in the Miguel Ángel Blanco case.

That file was opened for a very serious offense, extending the offensive against the prosecutor until March 3, when it was archived when the promoting prosecutor recognized that Vicente González Mota's actions only weighed "mere conjectures and suspicions."

The archive decree also explained that it was the National Court Prosecutor's Office itself that revealed its procedural strategy when in an interrogation the substitute for González Mota maintained that the facts investigated would be prescribed.

In the previous days, the

Professional and Independent Association of Prosecutors

(APIF) requested the filing of the disciplinary file and recalled that this prosecutor had been persecuted by the General Prosecutor's Office "without evidence."

Finally, the Board of Prosecutors of the Chamber -considered the

Generalate

of the Prosecutor's Office- will address this Thursday the prescription of the case opened for the murder of the Ermua councilor.

The Criminal Chamber of the National Court has expressed its doubts that the cause can be considered prescribed.

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