The general in the Mediator case kept €61,000 from the bites between clothes, envelopes and shoe boxes

When the agents searched the home of Civil Guard General Francisco Javier Espinosa Navas, the epicenter of the business leg of the Mediator case, they found 61,100 euros in wads of bills hidden in shoe boxes, inside a bag and even wrapped in clothing.

Thomas Osborne
Thomas Osborne
01 March 2023 Wednesday 10:25
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The general in the Mediator case kept €61,000 from the bites between clothes, envelopes and shoe boxes

When the agents searched the home of Civil Guard General Francisco Javier Espinosa Navas, the epicenter of the business leg of the Mediator case, they found 61,100 euros in wads of bills hidden in shoe boxes, inside a bag and even wrapped in clothing. To wear. The judge investigating the case believes that the money found in the house of the "Dad" of the plot —nickname with which Espinosa is named in their conversations by those involved in the case— would respond to the payments in B that businessmen would have made.

As stated in the prison order of the division general, the only one investigated of the twelve detainees in the matter who was sent to jail provisionally and without bail, the search found 30,250 euros in a shoe box on account bundles of 5,000 euros. In the same closet, there were also 2,400 euros in envelopes and 28,460 euros wrapped in rolls of clothes.

The mediator of the plot, Marco Antonio Navarro Tacoronte, acknowledged in court that "the influences" of the now retired general of the Civil Guard "were not disinterested, but were paid in parties or income [...] the businessman always pays coming". According to him, Espinosa intervened in the negotiations because he had to look for an economic future because he was going to retire."

"The general received payments in cash. They were delivered in an envelope [...] that money was contributed by the businessmen prior to the meetings with the General [...] ranging from 1,500 euros to 3,000 euros," he explained. before the instructor Taraconte, who explained that the businessman who contributed the most gave up to 20,000 euros.

Not only the discovery of cash has been valuable for advancing the investigation. The entry and registration also revealed the existence of four documents in which the retired division general reflected in a table certain amounts "of what appears to be a domestic control of income and expenses."

The case instructor is "mightily struck" by the fact that one of the columns that this table contemplates receives the name "CASH", "but even more so the amounts expressed in it." According to the record, the investigation indicates that former General Espinosa registered his A and B accounts.

These indications, the judge develops, would come to confirm the supposed mediation that Espinosa carried out with the island businessmen, "from whom he requested an alleged favorable treatment for the peninsular businessmen interested in carrying out their commercial interests." In return for this, the ex-general obtained "various gifts, including money."