The government of Pedro Sanchez is protected by Franco’s law on official secrets of 1968 to avoid handing over a document to investigators investigating the cause of the Koldo affair. This document would be precisely the one who quotes the President of the GovernmentPedro Sánchez, which could link him to the plot.
This document remains hidden in the investigation by the Official Secrets Law of 1968. The investigators of the Central Operational Unit (UCO) of the Civil Guard have redacted this document from the last report provided in the file from which a sentence is extracted in which is extracted it’s talking about the head of the Executive. “Once He even asked me if the telephone number of the President of the Government and the one under whom José Luis Ábalos was Minister of Public Works were punctured, to which they were told that we could not do anything,” said the Civil Guard accused in this case. Rubén Villalbaabout a request Koldo had made of him. The rest of what is revealed in this document was not transmitted to the judge.
“Some of Koldo’s requests were of a very sensitive nature, such as trying to find out if the phone number of the President of the The government or the former Minister of Development intervened,” the agents explain, after analyzing the cell phones of those investigated in the plot. They do this after receiving a document guaranteeing that Koldo He used his contacts within the Civil Guard to obtain information privileged compared to members of the Council of Ministers. This text was, however, removed from the file, investigators believing that they should be protected by the law on secrets.
Precisely, the PP raised this issue this Wednesday: the secretary general, Cuca Gamarra, declared during a press conference that “it cannot be the government itself that determines” what information reaches or does not reach the judge and expressed his party’s “concern” by confirming in the UCO report that “there are documents, evidence, recordings or statements from agents of the Civil Guard Information Service which are not sent under the Official Secrets Act.
For this reason, Gamarra argued that the PP would formally request, as an accusation in this procedure, that the magistrate “require the UCO to immediately provide all this information so that it is the magistrate who determines whether or not he can benefit from this law on official secrets.
Official Secrets Act 1968
THE Law 9/1968 from April 5 Official secrets (signed by the dictator Franc) establishes that “materials, acts, documents, information, data and objects whose knowledge by unauthorized persons could cause damage or harm” may be declared classified objects. endanger the security and defense of the Statethis qualification corresponding to the Council of Ministers.
Franco’s law on official secrets also specifies in its articles that “‘classified materials’ will be classified in the secret categories and reserved according to the degree of protection they require.”
He The Council of Ministers of March 17 and July 29, 1994 granted, on a generic basis, the classification of secrecy to the structure, organization, means and specific operating methods of the Intelligence Services, as well as to their sources and the information and data they contain. can. Thus, the UCO researchers decided not to contribute to the synthesis of Koldo affair this document in which Pedro Sánchez is mentioned, among others.
This is not the first time that the Sánchez government has used this law to hide data and protect itself. In November 2021 he used it to not disclose data on one of Pedro Sánchez’s last trips to New York. In a resolution dated October 19 and signed by the director of the Technical and Legal Coordination Department of the Presidency of the Government, the Executive qualifies said information as “classified information the knowledge of which by unauthorized persons may damage or endanger security and defense of the State.
