The former director of the Civil Guard, Leonardo Marcos, assured this Monday in the Senate that he had not given any “indication” to Koldo García about the ongoing investigation into the corruption plot. As for whether he knows José Luis Ábalos’ former advisor, former director Marcos replied: “No. Never. Never”.
Marcos was called to testify before the commission by the opposition because in a conversation intervened by the Central Operational Unit and incorporated into the file, Koldo García assured Commander Rubén V., also investigated, that he was the director of the Civil Guard who had informed him of the ongoing investigations.
The UCO itself reduces the credibility of this statement, as well as another in which Koldo García implicates the deputy operational director, General Manuel Llamas, because the day the former Transport advisor claims to have met number two of the armed institute Investigators were able to verify that the meeting never took place. Marcos said his departure from the Civil Guard had “absolutely nothing to do” with the corruption plot.
UPN spokesperson María del Mar Caballero referred to the complaint filed by two professional associations of the Civil Guard against Marcos for these events. The former director spoke at this stage of “an attempt at revenge for the disciplinary procedure that I had to open to some of its leaders for serious violations of one of the main obligations of the Civil Guard, which is to maintain neutrality “. One of these associations, the AUGC, was not the subject of the disciplinary procedures mentioned by the former director.
Marcos said by videoconference from Washington, to whose embassy he was assigned as information advisor after being removed from his post as director of the Civil Guard. He was questioned on this point several times. Marcos said he was fired at his own request and denied that his position in Washington was “a reward” or the “price” for his silence.
In this sense, she said she arrived at the Civil Guard with the aim of ensuring “stability” after the Corps had two female directors who did not stay in office long – María Gámez resigned due to of a legal accusation against her husband. who then refused and that her replacement, again director, left her post to join the PSOE list during the last general elections – and that after having been director of emergencies for almost four years, it was time to leave “ the front line of public security policies.” .”
elDiario.es published that Marcos’ dismissal occurred in the context of poor relations with the Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, and amid criticism from investigative units for the excessive interventionism of the director of the Civil Guard. PP senator Ana Beltrán insisted on the reasons for her dismissal and Marcos replied that he would have to ask Minister Marlaska, although she insisted: “I voluntarily presented my resignation to resume my career.” Marcos had served as an advisor to the Spanish Embassy in the United States as well as other diplomatic delegations.
This afternoon the appearance of the commander of the Civil Guard Rubén V. C is scheduled, accused of being in the pay of the corruption plot of the Koldo affair. Leonardo Marcos said he did not know the commander and that he removed him from his post the day he learned he was under investigation.
Beltrán asked him why he then defended his appointment as interior minister at the Spanish embassy in Venezuela, shortly before his arrest. Marcos explained that he approved the proposal of the Civil Guard body that evaluates the candidates and that he transferred it to the Destinations Commission headed by the Secretary of State for Security, Rafael Pérez, in charge to sign the agreements.
He doesn’t know the name of the colonel against jihadism
The PP senator revealed the name of the colonel of the anti-terrorism structure dedicated to the fight against jihadism within the Civil Guard, a colonel whose name Marcos said he did not know. “I know who he is but I don’t know what his first and last name are,” Marcos said of the main official in the fight against Islamist terrorism within the Corps he has led for 11 months.
This colonel is relevant to the plot because the UCO seized from Commander Rubén a recording made by him with his superior in which the former demonstrates that he knows that Víctor de Aldama, the businessman at the center of the corruption plot , was aware of Altao. as a confidant of unity against Islamist terrorism. He also knew they had puncture-proof cell phones and that scans were being carried out on their cars.
