The complaint by the former major of the Mossos d’Esquadra, Josep Lluís Trapero, for Operation Catalunya is already in the hands of the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office, as reported by ABC and sources from the Public Ministry have confirmed to La Vanguardia. The case reaches Anti-Corruption after the Superior Prosecutor’s Office of Catalonia has raised the complaint that Trapero presented last January to the Barcelona Prosecutor’s Office following the information published by La Vanguardia and eldiario.es on the 16th and 17th of same month.
Trapero denounced the maneuvers to implicate him in drug trafficking operations, orchestrated by former commissioner José Manuel Villarejo and other former high-ranking police officials under the cover of illegal actions against the Catalan independence movement.
According to this information, the plot orchestrated in the Ministry of the Interior directed by Jorge Fernandéz Díaz attempted to implicate Trapero in a drug trafficking case. Specifically, the information notes from Commissioner Villarejo between July and September 2013 would indicate that the objective was for the head of the investigative court number 1 of Barcelona, ??Joaquín Aguirre, to charge the head of the Mossos.
The case became known as Macedonia and, in it, an attempt was made to accuse several Catalan police officers of alleged involvement in the use of money from drug trafficking to pay informants and for their own benefit, with Trapero always being the main target of the investigations. investigations.
Last February, the Catalan Superior Prosecutor’s Office already took a further step in the investigation of the so-called Operation Catalunya by bringing together several complaints in a single macro-case, initially opened as a result of the investigation of the plot against then chief prosecutor in Catalonia, Martín Rodríguez Sol, with the apparent objective of searching for evidence that would incriminate him. The decision opened the door for others supposedly affected by the dirty war against the independence movement to try to join in and take their cases to court.
