The Police search the home of Luis Bárcenas' driver in search of new evidence of the 'Kitchen operation'

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The Internal Affairs Unit of the Police searched by order of the National Court judge

the home of Luis Bárcenas' driver,

, captured as a confidante by the former leadership of the Ministry of the Interior to spy on the former treasurer of the PP and steal sensitive documentation of the irregular financing The objective of the entry and registration, which was carried out on October 6 at the request of the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office within the framework of a foot

separate within the

which is under summary secrecy, was to try to seize new evidence of the

'Kitchen operation'

The sources of the investigation consulted by EL MUNDO explain that the Police seized the mobile phones and a police officer within the framework of this procedure.

of the driver, currently accused in this corruption case. The seized material is being analyzed by the Internal Affairs Unit in search of more evidence against the main perpetrators of this parapolice device designed to illegally spy on Bárcenas.

"Knowledge of the facts" by the Police

According to the investigation, the payment of the follow-up services to Sergio Ríos Esgueva was made on a monthly basis from the reserved funds of the State, which, according to the investigator of the case, "evidences knowledge of the facts by higher-level commanders of the agency. "In a car, García Castellón also pointed out that the fact that the driver of the Bárcenas family obtained a position as a police officer is a circumstance that could only be achieved with the participation of charges" with sufficient influence capacity in the Ministry of the Interior. "The objective of this illegal police device was to steal material compromised from Bárcenas for senior PP officials and prevent it from being contributed to the judicial investigation of the

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At this time, both the former Secretary of State for Security

Francisco Martinez

like the former interior minister,

Jorge Fernandez Diaz

, are being investigated by the National Court. Martinez has assured this Thursday at the Court that

reported

to the former minister the information on this operation to investigate the former treasurer of the PP.

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