The French Judicial Police has sent the Madrid court the data from the company Invoxia confirming that an unauthorized beacon was at the Tres Cantos Command. The investigation is nearing its conclusion.
The French Judicial Police has delivered to the Investigating Court number 54 in Madrid the missing information needed to close the loop on the six civil guards from the group that attributed the spread of Covid-19 to the Government in 2020. The data, which elDiario.es has accessed, confirms that one of the tracking beacons placed without judicial authorization in a drug trafficking case was active at the Tres Cantos Civil Guard Command and at the home of one of the accused agents.
France's response to the European Investigation Order includes records from the company Invoxia, based in the neighbouring country. According to that documentation, a client nicknamed “Paulaner” activated the device on February 4, 2023 at 21:21:56. The device was installed on a motorcycle and its location signal was updated every five minutes.
The time and place of activation coincide with the home of the civil guard who acted as secretary in the proceedings of the investigated drug trafficking case. Subsequently, the beacon was geolocated at the Tres Cantos Command, headquarters of the Economic Crimes Group to which the accused belong, as confirmed by the complainant's defence.
At that headquarters, the device recorded 54 positions, of which 43 occurred within the premises of the Command itself. This took place on 14 dates between February 6 and March 28, 2023, the same period during which the investigated events occurred.
The information contains all the use of the beacon, placed on a motorcycle and whose location signal was updated every 5 minutes
The six investigated agents are part of the group that in 2020 signed the reports of the so-called Sanitary Operation. Those reports were used to charge the then Government delegate in Madrid, José Manuel Franco, and to implicate several ministers and the epidemiologist Fernando Simón. Judge Carmen Rodríguez-Medel had chosen that group as judicial police and later shelved the case due to the low reliability of the reports.
The same civil guards later acted under the orders of Judge Santiago Pedraz in the Águila-Frozen case against a drug trafficking network. During that case, the defence of one of the accused provided a recording of a woman in which an agent confessed the illegal methods of the group. Pedraz opened a separate piece, charged the sergeant, and expanded the investigation to five other civil guards.
The National Police, through Operation Bali 23, identified the call shop where two phone cards were purchased with an ID lost by its owner. The agents found the beacons in an Audi A3 and a Kawasaki Ninja motorcycle. The device on the motorcycle, hidden, was from the brand Invoxia, the same one that has now provided the data to the Madrid court.
The six civil guards have been under investigation for two years for an offence against privacy. They gave statements assisted by a private lawyer after the State Attorney's Office declined to represent them, following the recommendation of the Directorate General of the Civil Guard. Sources from the case place the investigation in its final stage, awaiting the magistrate to issue the order to conclude the investigation and propose to judge them.
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