Judge María Tardón He has agreed to release Francisco Martínez, former secretary of State for Security, after considering that the risk of destruction or alteration of evidence has disappeared. The one that was number two of the interior of the executive of Mariano Rajoy I was in pretrial detention in Soto del Real since May 29 in the framework of the acquaintance ‘Borrasca operation’.
Your decision comes after The Prosecutor’s Formal Application. Of a request to release after a report by the General Information Police Station of the National Police in which it is collected and confirms that the key tests linked to the figure of Martínez are already duly secured.
Thus, according to legal sources, the risk of destruction or test alteration has disappeared, and with him the circumstance that motivated his initial income in preventive detention.
The ‘Borrasca operation’, still under summary secret in several of its aspects, investigates an alleged plot of corruption and irregular management of information from the bosom of the Ministry of Interior in the previous legislature. Martínez was one of the high positions involved in the investigationsomething that precipitated its arrest and subsequent preventive imprisonment.
The late judge considers, with the decision taken, that the procedural risk factors that justified their deprivation of liberty have been mitigated and their release proceeds. It is expected that it remains linked to the cause and possibly with precautionary measures.
The former Secretary of State of Interior is accused of money laundering, criminal organization, discovery and revelation of secretsparticularly search or intrusion in a computer system, as well as seizure and assignment of reserved data.
