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Wiretaps undermine key charge against Puigdemont’s lawyer (12 JAN 2021)

President Puigdemont's lawyer is being subjected to full-scale, classic lawfare by Spain.

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Wiretaps undermine key charge against Puigdemont’s lawyer

The conversations, recorded by the Spanish police, are part of the case file and contradict the witness whose statement incriminated Gonzalo Boye

Vilaweb

12 January 2021

The Spanish National Court’s indictment against Sito Miñanco and forty other individuals charged with attempting to smuggle drugs into Spain and devising a criminal network to launder the proceeds includes recordings of telephone conversations which undermine the charges brought against Gonzalo Boye, the lawyer who has successfully represented exiled president Carles Puigdemont since 2017. Boye is one of the defendants in this macro-trial presided over by Justice María Tardón, in which the barrister stands accused of laundering “the proceeds of drug trafficking as part of a criminal gang, as well as forging official documents”. Even though these wiretaps —which this newspaper has been privy to— call into question the main argument that the judge is using against Boye, Justice Tardón does not intend to drop the charges against him (read on...)

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