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The National Court has given the go-ahead to investigate Dina Bousselham, former advisor to former Podemos leader Pablo Iglesias, and her partner, Ricardo S.F., for alleged crimes of false testimony, false complaint and simulation of crime in relation to the piece of the Villarejo case in which the alleged theft of her mobile card is investigated.

In a car, against which there is no appeal and to which Efe has had access, the third section of the Criminal rejects Bousselham's appeal against the decision of the judge of the Villarejo case, Manuel García Castellón, to deduct testimony to the courts of Madrid and Alcorcón, and to which Pablo Iglesias himself and the Anticorruption Prosecutor's Office also joined.

The Chamber rejects one of the main arguments to oppose this measure and is that the deduction of testimony "against the complainant or accuser" is only possible when there is a final sentence.

For the court that would be the case for the crime of false reporting, but not "with respect to the other alleged crimes".

However, it admits that the state of the case "is decisive" to be able to prosecute the remaining crimes, "both to elucidate the existence of a possible simulation of crime, and to know if the testimony that is considered false is going to be practiced again" in a future trial or "lacks further procedural travel."

However, it observes that the status of the proceedings is the responsibility of the court "in its case competent for the investigation of the alleged crimes for which the testimonies have been deduced".

Thus, and although this piece of the Villarejo case remains open, "it is no less true," says the car, that "preliminary proceedings have already been initiated in this regard by the Courts of Instruction of Madrid and Alcorcón", Madrid town in which it was denounced for the theft of the mobile.

Both courts are now pending to determine which one is responsible for the investigation, according to the Chamber. At the moment it is known that the matter has fallen on the court of instruction number 46 of Madrid, which has not yet adopted any decision, according to legal sources.

Given this circumstance, it adds, it is useless to estimate these resources" and this "without entering into the substantive reasons of the appeal, nor in the prosperity of the deduction of testimonies".

"And this, obviously without prejudice to the fact that the Court (or Courts) to which the instruction competes (...) must first clarify, before entering into the investigation of the facts, the procedural issues and requirement of procebility regarding the cause of origin, "concludes the order.

García Castellón agreed on September 1 this deduction of testimony by admitting a request to that effect from the Association of European Jurists Prolege.

In that order, the magistrate recalled that he already highlighted the contradictions in the statements as witnesses of Dina Bousselham and Ricardo S.F. in the reasoned exposition that he submitted to the Supreme Court in October 2020.

On that occasion, he also asked the Supreme Court to investigate the then second vice president of the Government, Pablo Iglesias, for discovery or disclosure of secrets, computer damage and accusation or false complaint and simulation of crime in relation to the theft of the mobile phone of his former adviser.

The Supreme Court, however, filed the case and returned it to the National Court so that Judge García Castellón could exhaust the investigation.

  • Pablo Iglesias
  • Dina Bousselham
  • Jose Manuel Villarejo
  • National Court
  • Alcorcón
  • Castellón (Spain)
  • Valdemoro
  • Can
  • Supreme Court
  • Getafe
  • Majadahonda
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  • Justice

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