Cristina Rubio Barcelona
Barcelona
Updated Monday, January 29, 2024-09:26
New impulse for investigation to investigate the Russian plot of the
process
. The head of the investigating court number 1 of Barcelona, magistrate
Jesús Aguirre
, has extended the investigation of the Volhov case in a resolution in which he implicates the former CDC leader,
Víctor Terradellas,
and the head of Carles Puigdemont's office
,
Josep Lluís Alay,
both close collaborators of the former president who escaped in Waterloo. A resolution from which it appears that
Russia
would have leaked the invasion of Ukraine to the environment of the former president of the Generalitat.
"This Magistrate has reviewed another important part of the abundant documentation existing in the different pieces of the present case, having found data that identifies people and would confirm the close personal relationships existing between some of those investigated [such as
Terradellas or Alay,
people from the
Puigdemont
's closest confidence
] with individuals of Russian, German or Italian nationality, some of them while they held diplomatic positions or relations with the Russian secret services, other influential members of political parties of the German or Italian extreme right and with interests in establishing relations of political and economic influence with the government of Catalonia, if it unilaterally became independent from Spain," states Judge Aguirre's resolution.
The objectives of this collaboration would be, the resolution adds, to trigger "a war between the
European Union
and
Russia
(...), the invasion of
Ukraine
and the consequent limitation of gas supplies to Europe, the first important step in the political strategy of the Russian government and its president P. (with an extreme right-wing political tendency) for the destabilization of democracy and the European Union, consequences among which could be the departure of Spain from the EU due to the unilateral independence of Catalonia supported by the Russian government, through economic and military support, both of which are already known in this instruction."
This reactivation of the Russian plot of the
process
comes on the eve of the approval of the amnesty law in Congress and after Junts imposed its demands on the Sánchez Government to exonerate those involved in the Volhov and
Tsunami
legal cases .
The Investigative Court number 1 of Barcelona has kept the investigation open since October 2020 in relation to the alleged Russian contacts with the pro-independence environment within the framework of the investigation into the diversion of public funds to promote the independence challenge.
Specifically, the core of the investigations focuses on the contacts that the former president of the Generalitat, Carles Puigdemont, and his team of collaborators had with intermediaries linked to the Kremlin before the illegal 1-O referendum, during that month of October 2017 and even after the Unilateral Declaration of Independence (DUI).
In fact, the day before the aforementioned DUI, on October 26, 2017, Puigdemont had a meeting with Russian intermediaries, among them with the aforementioned businessman Nikolay Sadovnikov, a person in Putin's orbit, according to the judicial investigation. in the official home of the president of the Generalitat.
At this meeting, Russian emissaries offered economic and military aid to Catalonia once the secession was completed. Specifically, they proposed paying part of the public debt with Spain and promised 10,000 Russian soldiers if they were necessary. In exchange, they demanded favorable legislation for doing business with cryptocurrencies.
According to a recorded conversation between Terradellas and other pro-independence leaders, Puigdemont was "stunned" but "shit his pants" at these offers.