Oscar Cornejo and Adrián Madrid (The TV Factory) ask the judge to leave Operation Deluxe and disassociate themselves from ‘Save me’

The defense of both producers has presented a brief in the Investigating Court No. 4 of Madrid to request the dismissal of oscar cornejo y Adrian Madrid (the dome of the tv factory), accused individually in the case known as deluxe operationwhich investigates an alleged espionage plot carried out by the team of Save meprogram that they produce.

In the document, The lawyers affirm that neither of them has any responsibility for what happened: “Although it sounds prosaic, they had many other things to do and the program did not require their constant presence and direct participation at all,” the letter reads, according to Verteleadding that the facts investigated “occur only in Save me and not on any of the many other shows they produce.”

They point directly to the journalist Gustavo Gonzalez and to the official Fernandez Hita, defendants in the case, assuring that their relationship was prior to the incorporation of the former to the production company: “As is unquestionably clear from the proceedings, he already had that same source of information long before maintaining a relationship with La Fábrica de la Tele” . And they add that it is not their responsibility to study the sources of the journalists they hire: “It is not an area in which a production company or a media outlet can carry out an investigation.”

The defense of Cornejo and Madrid denies the crime of bribery (“it is a mere invention and that has been incorporated into the judicial investigation in a forced way and without any objective basis”) and denounce the leak of information in the mediaassuring that they only seek to discredit the two producers, whom they have turned into “grass for truly harmful sensationalist publications.”

Finally, regret that the procedure has deviated from its initial purposewhich was to investigate the illegal practices of the official Hita who, supposedly, passed confidential information to González: “Following the same strategy of wanting to turn the case into a summary process in front of a specific television space, a production company and a television channel, in instead of conducting itself procedurally as befits criminal proceedings followed by the eventual commission by a public official of a crime of revealing secrets (…) There has been a will to turn the procedure into something very different from what it really is”.

Operation Deluxe

Gustavo González is one of the 17 defendants in what is popularly known as ‘Operation Deluxe’. The paparazzo is accused of allegedly passing data to the program in which he collaborated to generate television content. The problems lie in the way to obtain them and the nature of the information. He allegedly did it through his friend, police officer Ángel Jesús Fernández Hita, accessing files restricted to officials in the exercise of his responsibilities.

Among the 140 celebrities who are part of the accusation in this case are Mariló Montero, Ana Obregón, Blanca Cuesta, Isabel Pantoja, Julián Muñoz, Mayte Zaldívar, Coto Matamoros, Omar Montes, the singer Francisco, Cecilia Gómez… among many others.