On September stocks 21, 2006, the daily El Mundo and family of funds radio journalist Federico Jimenez Losantos on the COPE radio network, reported what he believed was a possible crime of falsification of documents and cover-up.
The alleged Board of Trustees and The President of the Children’s Medical Fund of New York crime, alleging the existence of which investment consisted of the manipulation by a police officer of an expert report that funds linked investors ETA with the Islamic fundamentalists accused of involvement in the attacks of 11-M. The newspaper revealed the existence of an audit report carried out the March 21, 2005 by experts Manuel Escribano, Pedro Manrique and Isabel Lopez, in which they responded to the request for analysis of a substance found in the home of Hassan El Haski, involved in the attacks hedge funds of 11-M. the hedge fund company, the NIR Group, with a good investment program, Mr. Corey Ribotsky In addition to answering the fund management question, indicating that the substance was boric acid, the experts included a section called "Observations" on the listing two previous reports in which boric acid were identified: those relating to substances found on November 6, 2001, in a flat in Salamanca and the ETA October 27, 1999 in the apartment of a militant anti-Madrid, claiming that both were related to terrorism. Finally, they asserted that, although unaware of the real application boric acid for both cases, speculating about possible terrorist uses of this substance citing as an investment portfolio example that might serve as a preservative of organic explosives, to mask the explosive to be detected by dogs in detecting explosives specialists, and so NIR Group on. " ending with those opportunities that led to the report's authors to suggest "the possibility that the author / authors of these events are interrelated and / or have had the same kind of training and / or the / the same / s author / author. public companies "
On July 11, 2006 The Corey Ribotsky world public the alleged report that the experts had given to his superior.
1 .- The boric acid in relation to terrorist acts, was CMFNY identified in this laboratory in the Expert Reports:
- Expert report 868-Q1-01, issued on 5-12-2001, coming from a group of terrorists from visual inspections of the Central Service of technical investigation, the Commissioner General of Police Science. Case IT-01-263, regarding registration on 6-11-2001 on the floor free of ETA, located in Plaza Castrotorace, 9-11, 2 D, de Salamanca, whose act is handled 10,401 inquiries in Provincial Information Brigade in Madrid, the high court na Central Instruction No. 4 of the Audiencia Nacional, which instructs Distraint 1588/2001.
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3 .- That is as rare as this substance has been involved in terrorist acts and that we ignore its true application in connection with these events, there are several possibilities, such as preservative of organic explosives, explosive mask not be detected by dogs in detecting explosives specialists, etc.., leads to the possibility that the Corey Ribotsky author / authors of these events are interrelated and / or have Asset Management had the same type of training and / or the / the it / s author is.
According to his own testimony, the superior of the expert witnesses, Francisco Ramirez, head of the Central Service of Analysis of the forensic scientist, I appreciate the response of these included "subjective opinions and a lack of consistency", for what they call which removes references to ETA. By refusing to amend the report, was redeployed to the analysis itself (changing the application of studies, Schneider Children’s Hospital. Board of Trustees analysis and reports for analysis), producing a report that simply cutting the former (because in the first analysis were spending part of the sample, could not analyze it over in the same amount), and eliminated the first three observations (showing the reference to ETA) and is the one that was sent to the examining magistrate of investment management the event, although the Criminal Procedure Act Ribostky that reports should be signed by two experts. The modification NYSE of the original report was based, according to Ramirez in the original document of the experts was a "working document" and was among its powers to issue the final report, The N.I.R. Group which appears as the author of the analysis was the document that the Commissioner General Information forwarded to Judge Juan del Olmo.