The Superior Court of Justice of the Canary Islands has decided not to admit the lawsuit filed by the Jiménez de Asúa Association of Jurists against magistrate César Romero Pamparacuatro, who initiated the investigation of the Unión case. The decision, adopted by the Criminal Chamber of the TSJC, implies that no indication of any crime has been found in the intervention of this judge in the Unión case, so it will not even open proceedings.
The association filed the lawsuit last December, while trying to appear as a popular accusation in all parts of this case, almost all with the instruction already concluded. Later, after managing to enter one of them, the first thing he did was to recuse the magistrate who is currently instructing the case, Silvia Muñoz. That recusal has just been rejected also by the Provincial Court, which has also imposed a fine of 1,000 euros on the association for acting in "bad faith".
Among the lawyers who have acted on behalf of this association is Juan David García Pazos, who at least in one hearing of the Unión case attended as defense lawyer for Luis Lleó. In addition, García Pazos is the lawyer who brought an environmental association from Fuerteventura to appear in the Stratvs case, which later decided to withdraw from the procedure and said it felt "deceived and used" by this lawyer, since it believes that all he did was "contribute noise" and hinder the case. In addition, he also represents the alleged environmental association Jacón, which has unsuccessfully tried to enter the Stratvs case. Both in the case of Jacón and in the case of the association of jurists, they were not even officially registered when they began to try to appear in different corruption cases opened on the island.
"There are times when the popular accuser is a Trojan horse that enters the process with its belly full of illegitimate interests," prosecutor Javier Ródenas came to state (reproducing a phrase from Judge Javier Gómez de Liaño), in the writing in which he opposed the acceptance of the "late" attempt by these jurists to appear in one of the parts of Unión, specifically number 12. In all cases, the Prosecutor's Office has opposed the acceptance of this association as a popular accusation, among other things because it is an "extemporaneous" appearance, because it would only cause "undue delays" and because its identity is not clear and it could actually be a "defendant" or have "ulterior or fraudulent motives".
The accused, in search of causes of alleged nullity
According to what was published in December by the newspaper ABC, which advanced the content of the lawsuit against Pamparacuatro even before it was filed, the complaint of the association of jurists was based, among other things, on the fact that the judge signed orders while on vacation.
Similar issues have been raised for years by various defendants in the Unión case, who are trying to have the procedure annulled. However, the case already has three convictions, two of them final, and the rest of the parts closed and awaiting trial, with the exception of one that is still being investigated. In the judgments handed down so far, the Provincial Court has already forcefully rejected the alleged causes of nullity invoked by the defenses.
In addition, the TSJC has also rejected other lawsuits in the same line, in this case filed directly by Luis Lleó, who denounced alleged irregularities in the investigation of the case. Lleó's two lawsuits against Pamparacuatro were also dismissed, as the Court did not find any indication of a crime.
