Metodo 3 admits guilt - June 24th 2013

Just posted by T.B. on Jill Havern's site:



(24 Jun) NEWS JUST IN: 'Metodo 3 admits guilt in spying case and pays compensation to Alicia Sánchez Camacho'



Brief news snippet just in from Spain:

"Latest news about Metodo 3: The president of the Catalan PP (Partido Popular Party) Alicia Sánchez Camacho this Thursday celebrated Metodo 3 detective agency's admission of guilt for making a recording and publishing it in return for money, with the aim of causing political damage to her. They have apparently paid her compensation".

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HISTORICAL NOTE:

This article appeared in El Pais, 19 February 2013

“Police officers on Tuesday searched the Barcelona and Madrid offices of Método 3, the now-defunct private detective firm at the centre of a political spying scandal in Catalonia. Investigators, including two anti-corruption prosecutors, were seen bringing out boxes of confiscated documents from the buildings.

The agency's owner, Francisco Marco, and three other detectives at the agency were arrested on Monday. The entire case has rocked Spain's political foundations after recordings surfaced of a 2010 lunch conversation between the head of the Popular Party in Catalonia, Alicia Sánchez-Camacho, and the former girlfriend of one of the sons of the region's ex-premier.

The ex-girlfriend, Victoria Álvarez, informed Sánchez-Camacho about Jordi Pujol Ferrusola's alleged money laundering activities in Andorra. Pujol Ferrusola is a son of former regional premier Jordi Pujol Soley, who served from 1980 to 2003.

Two of the suspects, Julián Peribañez* and Alex Borrequero, who are still in custody, told investigators that they recorded the conversation ‘on the boss's orders’ [i.e. Francisco Marco] at the La Camarga restaurant in Barcelona. The ruling Catalan nationalist CiU bloc has organised a special squad of investigators and court personnel to help those politicians or other citizens who feel that they may have been spied on”.

* ADDITIONAL NOTE: Julián Peribañez from Metodo 3 and Gary Hagland from Kennedy's private investigation HQ in Knutsford interviewed Jayne Jensen and Annie Wiltshire in November 2007, which led to them being interviewed for 11 hours by Kent Police and then a great deal of publicity in December 2007 about their twin claims that they saw two blond men hovering around a ground floor apartment and also, on 3 May 2007, in the evening, said they saw Robert Murat hanging around the Ocean Club.

Julián Peribañez is now the THIRD McCann Team investigator to have been sent to jail since they worked for the McCanns - the others being Antonio Jiminez Raso (in prison 2008-2012) and Kevin Halligen (2009 to present)

"were seen bringing out boxes of confiscated documents from the buildings."

I wonder if the McCanns will be applying to the Spanish High Court to get access to THESE documents, to see if there are any 'clues' pointing to them, er i mean to help the 'search' like they did with the LP!


And, of course, another £100.000 from the fund to pay to Kate to 'translate' the SPANISH 'documents'!!
She dosen't do anything pro bono, don't y'know!
Unlike CR, who work, for the McCanns, for absolutely NOTHING!

there might  be some interesting snippets amongst all the papers. jimo.