The judge of the National Court Manuel García-Castellón continues to carry out proceedings in the Democratic Tsunami case. The last has been to issue a rogatory commission to Switzerland to locate the general secretary of ERC, Marta Rovira, investigated in the case for being one of the organizers of the movement that led the altercations after the sentencing of the process in October 2019 and so on. be able to summon her to testify.
In a car to which La Vanguardia has had access, the instructor also requests data from a CIM Banque Privée account, so that the Swiss authorities can inform him about owners, financial products subscribed, authorized persons and links, as well as identity documents of the previous ones that by regulation have been contributed to the bank account.
It also claims account movements from its creation until June 2020 and transfers received and issued, as well as data related to financial movements “whatever their nature.”
The judge asks Switzerland, based on the judicial cooperation agreement that exists between both countries, to provide data on recipients of checks issued and received in this account, as well as the counterparties associated with the clearing of possible checks in this account.
García-Castellón is on the trail of the financiers of the Democratic Tsunami, a movement that, according to the judge, led the riots following October 14, 2019, potentially reaching a terrorist nature. This Wednesday, the magistrate presented a reasoned statement to the Supreme Court so that the case could continue to be investigated there, once he believes he has sufficient evidence regarding the former president of the Generalitat and current MEP Carles Puigdemont, who has been brought before the high court.
While the Criminal Chamber of the Supreme Court, chaired by Manuel Marchena, makes a decision, the instructor can continue carrying out proceedings. The Prosecutor’s Office has already appealed the reasoned statement, highlighting the judge’s “contradiction” because a week earlier he had said that the case was in an initial phase and that it had not been exhausted.
According to prosecutor Miguel Ángel Carballo, the reasoned statement that the judge has submitted to the Supreme Court “is a kind of ex officio reform” of his previous order, “without new proven facts and without any diligence having been carried out that has been collected.” “new indications of criminal responsibility regarding those charged.” In the resolution, the magistrate explained to the Swiss authorities that the investigations carried out allow us to infer indirectly that TD was a “structured, hierarchical organization with a vocation for permanence, made up of several people with diverse roles that extended its scope of action in areas determined and with other people under their control, whose essential purpose was to subvert the constitutional order, economically and politically destabilize the State, and seriously alter public order through massive social mobilization. For the judge, among the purposes of the TD organization, “as demonstrated by its actions, and specifically, the action committed on October 14, 2019 at the Barcelona-El Prat airport, or on the AP 7 Highway that connects Spain and France, was to seriously destabilize the fundamental economic structures of Spain.”
Regarding Rovira, the judge explains in the order that she is being investigated for being part of the TD organization. She is being investigated for the commission of a crime of participation in the activity of a terrorist organization or group.
“Marta Rovira has been on the run from Spanish justice since March 2018, residing in Switzerland. “With high probability, she was the user of the Threema App with the pseudonym ‘Matagalls,’” the resolution explains. Regarding the account she is asking about, García-Castellón explains to Switzerland that this number appears referenced in a telephone conversation between the head of Puigdemont’s office, Josep Llùis Alay, with another person to finance the TD.