The Minister of Economy and Finance, Jaume Giró, has filed a complaint this Wednesday against the PP senator Alicia Sánchez-Camacho and the former commissioner José Manuel Villarejo before the Prosecutor's Office, in the City of Justice, for their participation in the so-called operation Catalonia .
The leader of Junts per Catalunya has filed the complaint in a personal capacity, leaving aside his status as a member of the Government, since the reported events occurred in 2012, when he did not hold any public office and was the deputy general manager of Caixabank .
Giró, along with other businessmen and politicians, was included in a list drawn up by the then president of the Catalan PP and which he handed over to Villarejo, the visible face of the patriotic police and the State sewers, to investigate him, for being an independentist. The Minister, who has filed the complaint together with the criminal lawyer Jordi Pina, has included in it the transcript of the conversations of the former Parliament deputy with the commissioner, revealed by the newspaper El Món last week.
"It is not normal and we cannot accept living in a State in which an active police command, which reports to the Minister of the Interior, receives instructions from a political official of the PP to draw up blacklists, persecute people, intervene in their communications and do monitoring of his private life", Giró pointed out from the Ciutat de la Justícia. In addition, he has denounced that with the Catalunya operation what was done was "persecute, dirty and damage the reputation of innocent people for their ideas", and "intervene in democratic electoral processes".
In the nine-page text, it is highlighted that police officers accept instructions – "Jaume Giró, Enrique Lacalle and Sumarroca, these three, must be investigated, but now" – from political positions without powers to do so , with the intention that "there be prospective investigations" for ideological reasons. It is also questioned that the leader of the popular Catalans for almost a decade, between 2008 and 2017, provided Giró's telephone number to the police, so there could be wiretaps, police control of communications or monitoring of some kind. Another point denounced is that public resources have been made available from the State security forces and bodies at the service of a certain political party, in this case the PP, and the connivance of high-ranking officials of the formation – the then general secretary of the party and President of Castilla-La Mancha, María Dolores de Cospedal – under these circumstances.
Along with the complaint, a dossier will be attached that Giró received at that time from the press in which a prominent role in the independence strategy was attributed to him by the police forces and in which personal information was included. The text suggests that there may have been discovery and revelation of secrets by a public official, in which Sánchez-Camacho would be a necessary inducer and collaborator, embezzlement of public funds and criminal organization. To determine this, the minister asks that a statement be taken from those involved and that the appropriate proceedings be carried out.
On the other hand, JxCat announced yesterday that it will file a complaint against Sánchez-Camacho for lying in the investigation commission on two occasions, in 2015 and 2017, about these matters.
