The Judge of the National Hearing Manuel García-Castellón has proposed to judge the retired commissioner José Manuel Villarejo, his Rafael Rafa Partner and three police commands -Enrique García Castaño, Constantio Riaño and Antonio Bonilla-, as well as two other people, for the Research on the businessman Marbellí Felipe Gómez Zotano.
The holder of the Central Court of Instruction number 6 has put an end to the research on the separate piece 8 of the tandem macrocause, known as the Marbella piece, where he investigated the commission that Marzena Katarzina would have made Villarejo in 2015 on Gómez Zotano with the objective to draw a legal strategy that allowed him to recover a money that claimed the employer for a real estate dispute.
The magistrate believes that there are indications to judge Villarejo, Round and lawyer David Macías González for a crime of passive bribe; A Katarzina, for active bribery; and García Castaño, Riaño, Bonilla and Round, for discovery and revelation of secrets.
At the same time, the instructor has agreed on the provisional dismissal of the cause for which it was Deputy Operational Director (DAO) Eugenio Pino, the policemen Juan José Díaz Álvarez and José María Serrano Ydigoras, as well as for Juan Carlos Escribano.
In the case of the ex Dao, the judge has not appreciated "no criminal act in his behavior". "Of the diligences practiced, it is not extracted or the participation of him or his knowledge of the events investigated," he said.
As for Scribo, he has limited his involvement in them to which he was the person who recommended Katarzina to come to Villarejo to solve his contractual controversy with the entrepreneur, but "he did not carry out any additional act," so he understands that he His participation was "accessory".
The background of the matter is a real estate transaction occurred in 2008 that has Gómez Zotano and Katarzina as protagonists. The woman would have delivered her 700,000 euros to buy a villa in the Malagueña town under certain conditions. But the business did not materialize. According to her, because the entrepreneur was scammed her, and, according to him, because she did not meet the agreed conditions to complete the sale operation.
According to the auto signed by García-Castellón, Katarzina contacted Villarejo's Bufete Stuart & McKenzie in the summer of 2015 to start a joint civil and criminal type strategy against Gómez Zotano in order to recover the money.
For this, the Cenyt Group, owned by Villarejo, developed a report on the businessman where his person, his family surroundings, his professional career, his societies and his financial situation were examined, and indications of fiscal fraud and bleaching were pointed out of capital in his performance.
This 'dossier', rubbed dated September 7, 2015, was subsequently used in the judicial actions undertaken by Katarzina against Gómez Zotano.
For the preparation of the report, it indicates the judicial letter, went to databases and records that are not accessible to the public, thanks to the intervention of investigated police officers.
At that time, Villarejo was an active commissioner and there was no police investigation that justified the data request from Gómez Zotano, hence the crimes of bribery observing the magistrate.
Date Of Update: 05 August 2021, 16:46
