The judge in charge of the so-called Neuron case has agreed to archive the investigation it was directing against Podemos – as a legal entity – and against the co-founder of the party Juan Carlos Monedero, considering that it is not possible to attribute criminal responsibility to the political party and by verifying that there are no indications that the leader intervened in the contract of 363,000 euros that the party signed with Neurona for the campaign for the April 2019 general elections.
In a first order, the judge Juan José Escalonilla has agreed to remove Podemos from the procedure in which an alleged electoral crime was attributed to it, specifically a crime of illegal financing, because “the possible criminal liability of said political party is not foreseen.”
In a second order, to which this news agency has also had access, the investigating magistrate has assured that “there are no indications that Monedero intermediated or had any participation in the contracting carried out by Unidas Podemos on February 27, 2019. with the company Neurona Comunidad SL, nor therefore with the electoral consulting work carried out on the basis of said contract by Neurona Consulting SA de CV”.
Monedero was listed as a defendant in the procedure for an invoice issued on December 30, 2018 for a value of $30,000 for “300 hours of face-to-face consulting in Buenos Aires, Mexico and Colombia” for which he received an income on January 25, 2019. bank of 26,200.31 euros from Neurona Consulting.
The head of the Court of Instruction Number 42 of Madrid has finally agreed to the file after last February the defense of Monedero, in charge of the lawyer Antonio Seguraasked him to exonerate him from the investigation since the report from the Central Cybercrime Unit of the National Police ruled out that he manipulated the emails containing the invoice of 26,200 euros – which he issued to the consulting firm – for the that was investigated.