The judge investigating the Barcelona corruption case sees the alternative case abandoned due to legal fraud
The Magistrate of the Court leading the investigation The Barcelona corruption caseinvolving payments to former CTA vice president Jose Maria Enriquez Negreira, found himself in hot water over another investigation. Judge Joaquin Aguirre he was accused of legal fraud in the investigation of Operation Volhov.
The case linked Catalan pro-independence politicians to Russian authorities, and was trying to try several figures such as former president Carles Puigdemont on terrorism charges. However, the case was dropped, after Aguirre was accused of legal fraud.
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According to MDthe court accused Aguirre of using “imaginative alternatives” to put Puigdemont and company on trial for terrorism, ignoring the legal direction, and allowing personal opinions and his own vision of events to influence the legal process .
Of course, this does not mean to say that there was an unfortunate process in the Negreira case – Barcelona was not able to satisfactorily pay their payments of more than 8 million euros to Negreira. The investigation accuses Barcelona of sports bribery and corruption, although it seems less likely to prosecute, since it requires a decision that Negreira was a public official.
