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Juan Villalonga and Adrián de la Joya . Here are the two people who introduced Commissioner José Manuel Villarejo - retired on June 22, 2016 and investigated since November 3, 2017 for leading an alleged criminal bribery and laundering organization - in the millionaires jet set , according to the facts investigated and confirmed to this newspaper sources close to the investigation open to this former police officer.

"Long-term partners" of the commissioner, as they are considered by the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor and recognized by the investigating judge of this case, Manuel García Castellón , in relation to De la Joya, whom he described as "a long-distance partner" in several cars dictated in the piece that investigates the works that Villarejo did for the Spanish businessmen Ángel and Álvaro Pérez-Maura .

It is precisely in the summary of this piece where there are transcripts of conversations held by Villarejo with people identified by the Internal Affairs Unit of the National Police such as Villalonga and De la Joya. These files reveal the existence of an alleged "team" whose members "plan different business options", according to reports sent by this police unit to the Central Court of Instruction number 6 of the National Court.

- "No, what I wanted to say is that we are a team, right?" Says Villalonga.

- "Semos, let's be a team," Villarejo replies to the one who was president of Telefónica between 1997 and 2000 - currently, business advisor - in a conversation held in New York on February 8, 2017 on the occasion of the work commissioned by the Pérez-Maura.

The retired commissioner comes to describe Villalonga as "a brilliant guy, but that is a disaster for business and politics," according to the Internal Affairs transcript of another conversation held by the commissioner two days later, also in New York, with De la Joya and two other interlocutors.

"Villarejo says that the presence of Juan in the project is to cache them" e "indicates that Juan was the one who transformed the shit of telecommunications company they had to what it is now", in reference to Telefónica. "Villarejo comments that Juan had to leave Spain for envy and for being a friend of the president - of whom he was a school desk companion -", referring to José María Aznar . "Juan is the team for all things," concludes the commissioner.

According to another of the reports provided, Villalonga himself says in a conversation with Villarejo and De la Joya that he is grateful to Telefónica "because thanks to them you can access anyone in the world with three or four calls, even if you don't know him, he reaches they".

To date, his name has appeared in two of the 13 open pieces in the Villarejo case . First, in the so-called piece Carol , concerning the commission that the German businesswoman Corinna zu Sayn-Wittgenstein made to the commissioner to advise the Goldsmith British family before an investigation opened by the Treasury for the purchase of a property in Ronda (Malaga). Precisely, that commission was made in a conversation between Villalonga, Corinna and Villarejo, in which reference was also made to events related to King Emeritus Juan Carlos I.

The other piece is in the so-called PIT , which investigates the works of the Pérez-Maura and for which the other "long-distance partner" of the former police officer, Adrián de la Joya, was accused. In fact, this is the only one of the two alleged partners of the commissioner who is being investigated in the Villarejo case. Sources close to the case told this newspaper that the judge does not rule out calling Villalonga.

De la Joya is identified by investigators as the person who contacted Paul Manafort - former director of the election campaign of the president of the United States, Donald Trump - so that he allegedly participated in the project hired by Pérez-Maura.

In his statement before the judge on May 10, De la Joya, residing in Geneva (Switzerland) - he is now prohibited from leaving Spain - said he met Villarejo in 2014. "At the beginning it was a relationship that made me intoxicated. little and then I became friends with him and when he came to Spain I called him and went to his office, we were going to eat, he told me stories. He was very entertaining. "

He recognized the judge not to use credit cards and have a good "economic position." "I don't have it bad and I don't need to do crap with Mr. Villarejo," he said. "It is going to seem like a frivolity what I am going to tell you, but for me it was entertainment, because I get bored in Spain when I come, I have nothing to do. I went there [to Villarejo's office] and got into a meeting. If I could help him, maybe I helped him, "he acknowledged.

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