The judge processed to Villarejo for recording a meeting between police and CNI on the Small Nicholas

The judge of Madrid Pilar Martinez has been processed by this Tuesday to the commissioner of police retired Jose Manuel Villarejo, his wife, Gema Isabel Alcalá and the journalist Carlos Mier for the surreptitious recording and the publication of a meeting between commanders of the National Police and staff of the National Centre of Intelligence (CNI) who were investigating the young man, Francisco Nicolás Gómez Iglesias, known as the Little Nicholas, who posed as envoy of the Government and secret agent. The recording, made on October 20, 2014, it was used two days later to make information by the now-defunct digital media with Sensitive Information, property of the wife of Villarejo and published in full by the newspaper Infolibre the 19 of December of that year.

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The magistrate appreciated that the recording and broadcast of the meeting between the then commissioner principal and head of Internal Affairs, Marcelino Martín Blas, two other police officers, and two officials of the CNI involves a crime of revelation of secrets, punished with a penalty of Mariobet one to four years in prison. According to the ruling judge Martinez transforms the preliminary investigation in the procedure abbreviated —processing equivalent to the processing— the recording is performed in the following manner: the journalist Wed, and he called the time of the meeting to the mobile phone of Martin Blas and established communication. It is ignored if the commissioner main accepted the call to Wed or the phone was off the hook through a trojan virus, because the terminal was not activated the security protocols of the police.

Two days later, on October 22, Sensitive Information published an article signed by Wed on contacts between the Police and the CNI concerning the research of the Small Nicholas, in which make express reference to that recording. The digital newspaper next to Villarejo attributed to a member of the intelligence services of the filtration Nicolás Gómez Iglesias of extracts of the recording.

The cause about the you listen to the CNI in the case of the Small Nicholas is the first processing against Villarejo. The commissioner retired is charged with the assault on dr. Elisa Pinto, which had been reported for harassment to the entrepreneur Javier López Madrid. It is also investigated in the National court as the apex of the plot of corruption in the police Operation Tandem, focused on your unique business reporting, cause for which remains in prison since November of 2017.