Valencia (EFE) a minor protected by the Generalitat for which her ex-husband was convicted.
According to the order to which EFE has had access, the judge considers that it is not yet possible to complete the investigation, since there are still “essential” procedures for the investigation of the denounced facts, for which reason a new extension is necessary from the 30th of April, when the previous extension agreed last October ends.
An extension motivated by pending proceedings
Judge Vicente Ríos states in the order that he is pending to carry out various witness statement procedures and recalls that in this case there are two secret pieces, the extension of which is being agreed on a monthly basis and two of the people investigated have asked to give a statement when lift the partial secrecy of the proceedings.
The magistrate affirms that he shares the criterion of closing the investigation phase of the case as soon as possible, but claims that the sum of pending proceedings and those that may be derived from them for the proper exercise of the constitutional rights in action requires the extension of the investigation.
Complexity of the cause
Likewise, it states that the complexity of the different agreed procedures and that they must be substantiated in separate and secret pieces also explains the delay in the investigation, but warns that this does not imply “in any way” that “a kind of general inquisition is being carried out ”, since all the agreed procedures are limited to the object of the investigation and are aimed at clarifying the facts.
Instruction 15 investigates the role of Oltra and several of his closest collaborators in the Ministry of Equality to try to clarify their participation in the opening of an information file or confidential information with which they supposedly tried to hide the case or discredit the minor who suffered abuse by Oltra’s then husband, who was sentenced to five years in prison and whose sentence is expected to be reviewed by the Supreme Court.
Nine of the people investigated, including Oltra, had opposed the extension (the rest of the defense had not submitted briefs), while the Prosecutor’s Office and the popular accusations -Vox and the Gobierna-te Association- had supported the extension of the term for another six months.