Yes, you couldnt make it up if you tried. Francisco Marco, former Director of defunct Spanish detectve agency Método 3, currently in liquidation, has taken to writing fiction novels about corruption in politics.
Has the poacher turned gamekeeper?
'Realpolitik', the novel by former director of Method 3 that offers the keys of corruption
By Antonio José Chinchetru
18 December 2015 [REST SNIPPED]
And he is not the only former Metodo 3 detective to go into print recently.
So has former Metodo 3 man Julian Peribanez.
Most definitely another poacher turned gamekeeper. Only to much greater effect,at least potentially.
Julian Peribanez was one of the main men on the Metodo 3 Madeleine McCann investigation, seen here striding down the streets of Praia da Luz side by side with Cheshire businessman Brain Kennedy, the mastermind behind the entire Madeleine private investigation:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-74ragUCC8YPeribanez got into big trouble in early 2013. He and a number of other Metodo 3 staff were revealed to have been behind the illegal recording of conversations between high-level Spanish politicians in a Barcelona restaurant. In particular, they recorded the President of the Catalan PP party, Alicia Sánchez-Camacho, interviewing Jordi Pujol Ferrusola’s ex-lover.
The story is covered here:
http://iberosphere.com/2013/02/spain-news-catalan-spy-game/7987 …and in many other places.
Peribanez was discovered to have been involved and arrested. However, unlike his boss Francisco Marco, however, Peribanez rapidly admitted his guilt, confessed all to the police, and may have ended up assisting the police with their enquiries.
Julian Peribanez later gave a long interview on the subject:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxABeNLLwv8 (25-minute interview, al in Portuguese)
In 2014, he published, jointly with the former head of Metodo 3 in Madrid, Antonia Tamarit, a book blowing the lid on corruption in Portugal but also, more specifically, the cess-pit of dark, nefarious and illegal activities carried out by Metodo 3.
The book, La Cortina de Humo, however, received an incandescent reception from former Metodo 3 boss, Francisco Marco. Enraged by his serial skullduggery being exposed in a book, he immediately – and successfully – applied for an injunction banning the sale of the book and banning both authors form ever speaking about its contents. Thee book, whose title is rendered ‘Wag the Dog’ in English, is still being advertised on Amazon, however.
I notice that on 16 November 2014, one reviewer wrote:
http://www.amazon.es/La-Cortina-De-Humo-Actual/.... ....../8494164988
"You cannot buy because a judge has decided to prohibit the sale and retain any copies available. Apparently, the former head of the authors in the Method 3 detective agency submits that the authors gained access to information through his job at the agency, and therefore are subject to confidentiality”. One Chapter, Chapter 13, will be of interest for all those following the Madeleine McCann case. The chapter includes dark tales of bogus invoices and money laundering.
The publishers of the book describe it in the following terms (Google translation):
“Explosive investigations by detectives Tamarit and Peribañez (no longer employed by Method 3) on unpunished corruption in Spain. The interested filtration ? of media recording of the Camargue, developments in the Gürtel case, the plundering of the PO box of FC Barcelona, the infamous [libelous accusation about the Find Madeleine Fund withheld – T.B.] Jordi Pujol Ferrusola, Puig Brothers, the Mortadelos , Espionage in the Community of Madrid, pacts of silence, rise and fall of Metodo 3”.
What a pity, though, that Julian Peribanez was involved in all this skullduggery when he was working on the Madeleine McCann case and yet only now tells what he knows to make money from the sale of his book.
Is he really now serving the interests of truth? Or only, always, of his own pocket?
