Junts extends to the Sánchez Government the suspicions about the Andorra case and asks why the denounced police officer is protected
MADRID, 16 (EUROPE PRESS)
Junts has registered some thirty questions in Congress about the case of alleged pressure from the Rajoy Government on the Private Bank of Andorra (BPA) and has extended suspicions to the coalition Executive chaired by Pedro Sánchez, accusing him of protecting the police officer appointed by those pressures.
An Andorran judge has charged Mariano Rajoy and his first Minister of the Interior, Jorge Fernández Díaz, in the proceedings for a lawsuit for alleged pressure on the BPA to obtain bank information from the Pujol family and other Catalan politicians that could be used to discredit the independence process.
The Junts spokeswoman, Miriam Nogueras, and the deputy Josep Pagès have registered some thirty questions on this matter to find out the opinion of the current Government on these maneuvers and find out what measures have been adopted in this regard.
But they go further and ask “why the current government continues to protect one of the agents involved through diplomatic immunity”, and in this sense demands that this immunity be lifted from inspector Celestino Barroso, identified as the personal author of the threats to the Head of BPA bank.
As a result of the questions formulated by Pagès in the Kitchen commission to the former commissioners Villarejo and García Castaño, it was revealed that the police actions carried out in Andorra in 2014 are protected by the Official Secrets Law, and for this reason Junts also calls for the removal of the secrecy of these actions.
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In addition, the pro-independence formation founded by Carles Puigdemont also asks the Sánchez government if it has informed the French president, Emmanuel Macron, Co-Prince of Andorra and co-responsible for Andorran sovereignty.
In his opinion, the indices point to a violation of the Treaty of Good Neighbourhood, Friendship and Cooperation between the French Republic, the Principality of Andorra and the Kingdom of Spain of 1993, according to which France and Spain respect Andorran sovereignty.
From an economic perspective, Junts asks for information on the cost and responsibilities of criminal police activity and the closure of the BPA bank.
Finally, the Junts deputies also ask about the alleged pressure from the former Minister of Economy Luis de Guindos and his Secretary of State Íñigo Fernández de Mesa, so that Sepblac (Spanish Financial Intelligence Unit) would report on money laundering by the banking BPA that has been shown to be non-existent.