The Spanish Attorney General ruled on Thursday initiate a criminal investigation against Interior Minister acting for the content of conversations is that seemed to use their services to incriminate independence parties Catalans.
in some recordings released by a newspaper in June, the Minister Jorge Fernandez Diaz heard in conversation with the then director of the Anti-fraud office of Catalonia, Daniel de Alfonso, discussing ways to engage independence leaders in the region of northeast Spain.
the prosecution concluded “that the content of the talks is not enough evidence emerge to start a criminal investigation for false preconstitución testing by administrative malfeasance or for the remaining offenses, “he said the office in a statement.
Fernandez Diaz had been reported to the prosecution by the Catalan independence party Esquerra Republicana (ERC).
disclosure of audio conversations generated fierce controversy in Spain, a few days after the elections on June 26, which however were won by the ruling People’s Party, already hit by scandals corruption.
from conversations, recorded in October 2014 in full independence fever in Catalonia, the opposition demanded the resignation of Fernandez Diaz, a request rejected by the outgoing head of government Mariano Rajoy, close to the minister.
as for Daniel Alfonso, removed from his post after the scandal, the Spanish Attorney General led to provincial prosecutors’ offices in Madrid and Barcelona the study of possible crimes of revelation secrets and embezzlement, the statement added.
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