The three prosecutors whom the PSOE and its partners included among those appearing in the mask investigation commission have already They will not have to go to the Congress of Deputies to be questioned. After obtaining the rejection of the State Attorney General and several members of the Government, the proposal to call the chief anti-corruption prosecutor to testify has been withdrawn, Alejandro Luzon, to Ignacio Lucas, in charge of investigating the Koldo plot in the Canary Islands and the Balearic Islands, and to Codruta Kövesi, head of the European Prosecutor’s Office. The expulsion of those appearing was agreed this Monday afternoon with the only vote against ERC and Junts.
The president of the investigation commission, Alejandro Soler, explained at the end of the vote that “the presence of prosecutors in investigative commissions is legally correct” and “there are precedents.” Although the Statute of the Public Prosecutor’s Office prevents prosecutors from speaking about matters they are working on, “they can speak about other issues.”
“However, in this case and at the request of the prosecutor, the socialist group has proposed the exclusion” of the prosecutors. “It has been agreed by a majority on the part of the commission to exclude the prosecutors from the list of those appearing,” Soler confirmed.
The summons of these three prosecutors caused a great stir last week, especially based on the letter that the attorney general, Alvaro Garcia Ortiz, sent to the president of the commission. In the letter, the head of the public ministry asked the commission to reconsider the decision to call prosecutor Alejandro Luzón. “Anti-corruption is directly involved in many procedures object of the commission and that could disrupt the work of the Public Prosecutor’s Office, which is the exercise of public criminal action,” explained sources from the Attorney General’s Office.
Therefore, calling the chief prosecutor to appear could constitute “an inconvenience for the processing of tax and judicial investigations of a confidential nature”, and would even pose a problem for “allegations to the right of defense that those affected by such investigations could make.” “. These considerations conveyed from the Prosecutor’s Office caused the Socialist Parliamentary Group to begin studying the possibility of removing the three names from the list.
But the attorney general was not the only one to express his rejection. The Minister of Justice, Félix Bolaños, aligned himself with GarcÃa Ortiz and assured that It makes “no sense” for prosecutors to appear on active cases. And even the Minister of Defense, Margarita Robles, pointed out that calling the three prosecutors “is not the most appropriate procedure.”
