The dirty war against Podemos told by the protagonist: “I took out the documents from the Venezuelan secret service but the Police did not deliver them to the court”

Vice Minister of Energy Javier Alvarado acknowledges that he handed over 300 Venezuelan intelligence documents to Police Director Eugenio Pino. Some affected -according to his version- contracts from Iberdrola, Repsol or Duró FelgueraThe Venezuelan politician was also commissioned to provide data against Podemos. He explains that later they asked him for 1.4 million euros to end his judicial problems in Spain, Alvarado linked in his statement last week both Pino and the office of former judge Baltasar Garzón in the alleged maneuvers to pressure him The Vice Minister of Energy, Javier Alvarado was the person who received the personal commission from the deputy director of the Spanish Police, Eugenio Pino, to provide the police leadership of the Popular Party in 2014 with information against Podemos. Alvarado did not have direct access to these alleged data, but as he acknowledged last week in a judicial statement, after the meeting with the Spanish agents he contacted the former director of Venezuelan intelligence between 2001 and 2002, Carlos Luis Aguilera, in addition to the then director of the military secret service, Hugo El Pollo Carvajal to provide nearly 300 documents that were delivered according to his version, in person in the DAO’s own office. There and after a first meeting that lasted four hours, he was commissioned to provide all the data on Podemos that he could get from Venezuela. It was his then lawyer, Javier Aliste, now under investigation, who arranged the appointment with Pino and with other agents of the Support Operational Brigade (BOA) such as Bonifacio Díaz. “I give you a list of this contract, that company, those politicians. At a round table. Eugenio Pino, Bonifacio, Catalán, Lucho, another officer and Aliste […] Hundreds of documents. They were points of accounts of Chaves, of electrical companies, Elecnor, Duró Felguera, points of accounts of the president of those contracts, advice and consultancies of ambassadors [en clara referencia al caso del embajador Morodo abierto por la UDEF], internal approvals of PDVESA to Spanish, American, French companies. I am giving everything I have and I ask the directors, things by hand, multimillionaires. Sources there who wanted the actions of Ramírez and Chávez to be known,” Alvarado explained last week. When asked in the first instance, the Venezuelan politician replied: “I don’t have anything from Podemos but I can talk to the intelligence agencies.” A call to unblock accounts to them and in a second meeting Alvarado delivered the documentation that, according to his version, was not later transferred to any court by the agents. “Two weeks later, I saw one of those account notes about Podemos published in the press,” explained the Venezuelan deputy minister in his full statement, which NIUS has accessed. In addition to alleged data on payments to the environment of Podemos from the Venezuelan Government, the documentation would contain data on important public contracts handed over by the Executive of Hugo Chávez, and other documentation linked to businesses of Repsol, Duró Felguera or Iberdrola in Venezuela. However, there is an element that dismantles this version of police passivity denounced by Alvarado, since one issue was prosecuted then among those raised by the Chavista leader in 2014: that of the private businesses in Venezuela of former ambassador Raúl Morodo, whose investigation remains open in the National High Court. Alvarado, who obtained Spanish nationality and is being investigated in another case by the National High Court, testified on this occasion as a witness, during the investigations that a Madrid court is keeping open for the alleged existence of a network that extorted Venezuelan oligarchs in exchange for alleged favors in their judicial investigations. One of those services would be to unblock the financial accounts that these oligarchs had paralyzed after several financial investigations in Spain, Portugal and Andorra. And it is there that Alvarado cites again the supposed role of Eugenio Pino: “The director of the police, knowing that about the accounts, calls someone from the BBVA bank in front of me, ordering that Mr. Alvarado is a piece of intelligence from Spain. , have your accounts unlocked. They still didn’t unlock it for me. Director Pino also makes efforts in this business”. The role of Garzón’s office According to the version provided before the Justice, Alvarado explained that after delivering the documentation, they requested 1.4 million euros in payment for the alleged “favors” that he was going to receive from his “protectors” in Spain. The former Venezuelan president has acknowledged that he paid 40,000 euros. A money that the defendants frame within the professional services and legal assistance they provided. But Alvarado maintains that they demanded much more of him, and that by closing in on the band, his problems in Spain began. The most important, according to the same source, was the imputation of him by the National High Court in a lawsuit filed against him in Spain by the state oil company PDVSA for an alleged millionaire embezzlement. To defend the interests of the Venezuelan company in Spain, his directors hired the Ilocad office as lawyers, controlled by the jurist and former judge of the National Court Baltasar Garzón. There, and as Alvarado explained to the judge, the Ilocad team filed a complaint in 2018 against Alvarado and other Venezuelan oligarchs containing part of the documents that he himself would have delivered to the Spanish police years before. Alvarado recalled in his court statement that the same office has also been in charge of Eugenio Pino’s defense in procedures such as the so-called Operation Kitchen and maintains that in that case, the UDEF, which in his opinion makes some “surgical” reports, delivered a research work, in his words, full of errors “that not even a child makes”.