The Criminal Chamber of the National Court has endorsed the investigation opened by Judge Manuel García Castellón into one of the founders of Podemos, Juan Carlos Monedero, for money laundering and falsehood in relation to some transfers between his company, Caja de Resistencia Motiva 2 Producciones SL, with the company VIU Europa and Banco del Alba for the preparation of a consultancy report.
In an order, the magistrates of the Third Section dismiss the appeal presented by Monedero, to which the Prosecutor's Office adhered, against the decision of the instructor to open a case to investigate the leader of Podemos.
Monedero argued that these facts had already been investigated in the Court of Instruction 45 of Madrid and were archived, as happened with the case for the financing of Podemos in the Court itself, which is the owner of García Castellón.
The Chamber explains that we are not in the trial phase that requires the certainty referred to in the doctrine of the Supreme Court, "but before the start of an investigation as there is an appearance that the origin of some funds from an activity is being masked. that apparently criminal - sale of oil on the black market - interposing figureheads and shell companies, which would emerge on the legal market as payment of loans or through companies providing services and facts that apparently presented the characteristics of a documentary falsity.
Therefore, indicates the resolution, the appeal must be dismissed when describing in the appealed order some facts that present the characteristics of a crime whose discovery apparently would not have occurred through investigation proceedings declared inadmissible by prospective, whose assessment or connection of illegality with these correspond to the body in charge of the investigation.
