The Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, has said that the Government does not use the funds reserved to cover up cases of corruption “as the PP did” during his intervention this Wednesday in the Congress of Deputies, where the popular group has requested his resignation due to the Supreme Court ruling annulling the dismissal of Colonel Diego Pérez de los Cobos as head of the Madrid Civil Guard Command.
In this regard, the head of the Interior, in the control session of the Government that has been held in Congress, has insisted that “the objective reasons that determined the loss of confidence in Colonel Pérez de los Cobos for the exercise of a position of responsibility remain”. However, he has assured that “when the resolution arrives, it will be executed in accordance with what the Supreme Court declares.”
“He fired the colonel for not being a snitch with stripes, you are arbitrary and the one who has broken the law forcing him to commit a crime,” the PP deputy Ana Belén Vázquez snapped at Grande-Marlaska, whom she has asked to resign .
Colonel Pérez de los Cobos was dismissed in May 2020 after members of the Judicial Police of the Madrid Command delivered a report to the judge handling the case of the 8-M demonstration and its possible influence on the expansion of the covid.
“You are big with your subordinates and small with all the corrupt PSOE because Pérez de los Cobos complied with the law and attacks you mercilessly.” The popular deputy has estimated that Fernando Grande-Marlaska should not only resign but that he is “morally disabled” to return to the judicial career.
“We do not use the Civil Guard in any sense, not like the previous director of the Corps – from the time when the PP governed – who ordered an investigation to cease, the Barracks case, which is now in court,” he recalled. Grande-Marlaska. And he has added, in reference to the PP: “We do not use funds reserved for operations that avoid judicial proceedings as you did.”
He has insisted that “reserved funds without due control” were managed, which allowed “them to be used to destroy evidence so that the PP could hide its responsibility.”
On the other hand, Ana Belén Vázquez has made reference to “another scandal of the former director of the Civil Guard María Gámez, two more floors supposedly paid for with funds from the ERE”. “Coincidentally, the four floors of the former director of the Civil Guard add up to 2.5 million, the same amount that the ERE judge is looking for,” she added.
“Its best director of the Civil Guard is about to surpass its best director, the socialist Luis Roldán, in real estate investments,” concluded the PP deputy, who has asked the minister to explain the truth of the resignation of Gámez, who It took place due to the judicial investigation of her husband in relation to alleged irregularities in adjudications of the Junta de Andalucía.
Grande-Marlaska has stressed that Gámez “resigned out of decency and democratic neatness and to preserve the honor of the Civil Guard, so that he and his family would not be attacked”, and has indicated that it is something that the PP is unaware of.
“Ask your partner Marga Prohens -president of the PP in the Balearic Islands-, who recently, I think preparing the lists, ate with a person convicted of corruption, who had to resign from the position of Government delegate due to pressure on the Judicial Police, to the Civil Guard”, commented the minister.
