The investigating court number 15 of Valencia has agreed to the provisional dismissal of the investigation of the former vice president of the Generalitat Valenciana, Mónica Oltra, and all the rest of the positions of the Department of Equality and its cabinet related to the case that caused its resignation, as no crime was found after the investigation carried out.
The order issued by the court ensures that “there is not a single indication that any order or instruction was issued from the management positions of the Ministry aimed at hiding the facts or discrediting the minor.”
In the order, against which there is an appeal, Judge Vicente Ríos states that “each and every one of the indications that supported at the time the provisional judicial accusations against the people investigated in these Preliminary Proceedings have completely vanished once all the necessary procedures aimed at determining the nature and circumstances of the facts investigated.”
In the eighteenth section of a 96-page order, the judge states that “it has not been proven, not even at the level of the evidence, that Ms. Mónica Oltra Jarque, nor any other person from the Department, issued an order, instruction, command or any indication to those investigated until now mentioned about what their way of proceeding should be in relation to Maite (the minor victim of abuse) or in relation to Mr. Luis Eduardo Ramírez (Oltra’s ex-husband and convicted of abuse), regarding of the facts already mentioned and which were later prosecuted by the Provincial Court”.
The educator, who has been convicted for these events, was Oltra’s ex-husband when the events occurred. Oltra resigned due to his indictment in the case in June 2022, despite the fact that he has always defended his innocence.
The provisional file was agreed after the examination by the Judicial Police of more than 48,000 emails that Oltra exchanged with his team when he headed the Department of Igualad. The police report supports the version that Oltra gave in court.
Magistrate Vicente Ríos Segarra states that “it has not been proven, not even at the level of evidence, that Mónica Oltra had any knowledge, until August 4, 2017, of the events attributed by the minor to whom she was then her husband. ”.
In her statement, Oltra maintained that she was not aware of the case for which her husband was being investigated until August 4, and she also did not know that Ramírez had been separated from his duties as an educator at the center in the period between February 20 2017 and March 12, 2017. According to her statement, her husband told her that he was on vacation.
His former chief of staff, Miquel Real, was also charged in this case; the former undersecretary of the Department of Equality, Francesc Gamero, and thirteen officials and workers of the Department of Equality.
