"It is an illegal network of great magnitudes" | Ramos P …

In connection with the investigation of illegal extortion and espionage involving the false lawyer Marcelo D'Alessio and the prosecutor Carlos Stornelli, the federal judge of Dolores Alejo Ramos Padilla s' is presented to the Committee on the Freedom of Expression of the Chamber of Deputies and to the action of a "network of illegal political and judicial espionage of great magnitude". Lawmakers of Cambiemos did not attend the Ramos Padilla exhibition

The judge said that Alessio had for some time conducted operations "related to the activity of the judiciary, ministries (national and provincial), security forces (national and provincial), political authorities and the media ". According to Judge Ramos Padilla, Alessio himself confessed to the activities he was carrying out during the first raid, while calling on the help of Security Minister Patricia Bullrich and others. President Mauricio Macri.

"The case may involve the prosecutor (Stornelli), although we know that it is not the only one, but there are several involved, involving journalists and a judge.What we see could harm the relations with the states. States, with Venezuela, with Israel and with Uruguay, because this organization had an impact in different areas of concern of these countries, "warned the judge, who spoke about the insertion of" false false witness tracks. "

The Federal Judge of Dolores explained that the methodology used consisted in "gathering information, producing information and storing sensitive data in parallel with the judicial procedures used to carry out coercive extortion actions in order to influence judicial cases".

"Many judges, prosecutors and journalists have certainly been deceived in good faith and have been the victims of espionage," I added, "lawmakers and officials," he added.

However, Ramos Padilla told lawmakers that in just seven days of intervention, the false lawyer's cell phone could reveal "several facts that have informed us of the possibility that this organization has committed crimes simultaneously and all sorts". The investigation began with the indictment of businessman Pedro Etchebest, who went to court to get an attempt at extortion from the trial of Dr. Alessio, who said he was acting as Federal Prosecutor Carlos Stornelli, but the magistrate badured that the first raid "the purpose of the investigation changed 180 degrees", after being maintained with a "vast network illegal spying ". He added that "these operations operated in coordination with the United States Government".

"We found documents, information files, notebooks containing confidential data notes about children, wives, targeted relatives, spy elements such as hidden cameras between keychains, drones, a weapon that has caught the attention of all, "explained the judge, who also clarified that it was Alessio who had declared that he" was investigating terrorism, drug trafficking and that he was investigating for a prosecutor ". "I wanted to talk to Patricia Bullrich, Secretary Arribas or directly to the president of the nation," said the judge.

Speaking specifically about the role of Dr. Alessio, Ramos Padilla made it clear that "it's not by chance that he appeared in the media because he used some of it for to carry out its illegal activities. "This false lawyer had at the same time a very intense activity in the field of the press and it is precisely the status of lawyer and its links with the press which allowed his Psychological action operations to be much more intense and profound, "he said, the magistrate, who added that they could check a" plan "on how they acted. to extort.

The magistrate complained of the silence of the Attorney General who had refused to intervene despite his request and had directed against his partner, Julián Ercolini, who had "asked to be prevented and put together for the reason to have the same procedural object, but never knew how I could know it with a summary secret. "

The judge of Dolores illustrated the intricate structure of espionage in the case of the former director of PDVSA, Gonzalo Brusa Dovat. "The softening or breaking mechanism has been applied to publish in the media," said Padilla, pointing out that between the diverted information of the cell phone and the computer of Alessio, contacts with "user Carlos Stornelli" are created.

The judge began to show pictures of the interview made in Duvat, found in D'Alessio's mobile phone and in particular in one of the handwritten tables. "This notebook was found during the search of D & # 39; Alesio's home," said the magistrate. Ramos Padilla described through the evidence gathered in the case, among other things, the conversation provided by the businessman Etchebes, where the false lawyer collected sensitive information from the former director of PDVSA, then s 'blossomed with the fact that he "had got the penitent".

The magistrate baderted that Dr. Alessio had always been presented to Brusa Duvat as the regional chief of the DEA and had promised that he was following his instructions and giving information about the other badets of the DEA. Argentine oil company, "it would be protected by the DEA".

According to Ramos Padilla's investigation, D'Alessio indicated in the DEA protocol that he had to appear to testify before Stornelli and propose interviews for Clarín, TN and América 24. "I am not went to testify before the prosecutor nor to the initiative own initiative, but induced by the circumstances, "said the judge the confessions of the former director of Venezuelan society.

Then, the judge reviewed the conversations between D & # 39; Alessio and Carlos Stornelli revealed a few days ago by PáginaI12. Among them, the one in which Stornelli asked him to make a hidden camera to the lawyer José Manuel Ubeira. At that time, the magistrate showed a notebook seized from the false lawyer with Ubeira's details, which he acknowledged in front of the judge, stating that this notebook was at the center of the table where Stornelli and D were sitting. "Alessio at the restaurant Pinamar CR, according to the study of the photographs of the meeting in which extortion to the businessmen of Etchebes would have materialized.

"The content of the transcribed communications allows us to warn against the illegal espionage maneuvers with clandestine mechanisms," read Ramos Padilla about the report prepared by the Provincial Commission of Remembrance from the documents removed from the house of the false lawyer. "This also reveals the high degree of trust that exists between the Stornelli Attorney and the Lawyer," the report adds, noting that "Alessio is charged with performing follow-up tasks against a lawyer." other lawyers ".

In addition, the judge read another excerpt of the commission report in which it says that "Alessio's own talks about maintaining links with the Ministry of Security, especially with Minister P Bullrich" and adds: "This link would involve considerations and the receipt by the prosecutor of the indications of the Minister". In this sense, the magistrate also noted that he had discovered "deputies who are users" of the illegal espionage network.

"It is proven that these maneuvers take place, not only legal colleges should intervene, but also Congress, in the same sense that the Court and the IACHR have had with human rights defenders. "man," said Ramos Padilla, who warned that "if For lawyers, this can affect hundreds of citizens who have the right to go to court with the certainty that the person representing them is not a victim of this organization. "

For his part, the judge of Dolores confirmed the transcended remarks concerning a report of Dr. Alessio resulting from the meeting of the journalist Alejandro Fantino with the senator Cristina Kirchner and described this file of information similar to that found with information of the journalist Romina Manguel, as "reports on her ideology, her encounters and her relationships".

"There should be no trace in Argentina of the political ideology of journalists," said the judge who called for the intervention of the Freedom of Expression Commission for the Protection of Workers' Rights. the press.

Before the question of the deputies, Ramos Padilla acknowledged that the journalists of Rodrigo Alegre, Edurado Feimann and Rolando Graña were also included in the case because they had participated in the interviews led by D'Allessio, and indicated that he preferred not to disclose the names before they are kept and because "they may be victims", although he said that in those cases, no record of information about their ideology had been find.

"This is an investigation that requires more than imprisonment to bring clarity, in some cases we see hasty detentions by the courts, but the methodology of this court is to give the people involved the opportunity to clarify their situation. and make the procedural decision, "Ramos Padilla said on the continuity of the investigation.

He warned that "we are facing a spying maneuver, it is likely that they want to look for the mistake of the court that discredits the investigation, that is why it is necessary to proceed slowly and once again ".

Consulted after repeated Alessio's messages on the reports he made to the city of Maine, in the United States, and on possible relations with his presentation as a bookstore. DEA officer Ramos Padilla said that he had consulted with the US Embbady in this regard, but received no response. In this sense, the magistrate pointed out that, although "there is no official information", in notes of the portal InfoBae and the newspaper Clarín, alleged sources of the embbady have issued statements that deny that D'Alessio belongs to the anti-drug agency.

The magistrate pointed to some of the evidence from the case that would link the false lawyer to US intelligence. According to the communications on file, the intelligence work done on the former PDVSA leader was linked to the US government's intention to freeze Venezuelan oil company badets abroad. "I have to take it by diplomatic bag, this can be useful to you locally," was one of the Alessio 's messages included in the survey. In addition, reports also appear to cross the Argentine border and give details of members of the Uruguay Front Amplio to a supposed Iranian trade commission in the neighboring country.