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The private detective, lawyer and writer Francisco Marco on Tuesday told the judge investigating the retired commissioner José Manuel Villarejo that one of the members of the detective agency he founded, Method 3 , received monthly payments for three years of the funds reserved for the State to investigate on the occasion of the so - called Operation Catalonia .

Marco, who has come to testify before the judge of the National Court Manuel García Castellón as injured in the so-called Land Piece - investigates the work that the owners of the luxury urbanization La Finca, in Pozuelo de Alarcón (Madrid), did Villarejo in 2013-, has assured the judge that one of his former employees, Julián Peribáñez , came to charge 1,000 euros a month for three years for investigating him by order of Villarejo.

This was reported to this newspaper legal sources present in the interrogation, which stated that Francisco Marco, a member of the Marco & Co. society, has also indicated to the police Antonio Giménez Raso as a participant in that operation, to questions from one of the lawyers of the Popular accusation exercised by the party We can in this case.

It should be remembered that Marco has already indicated Peribáñez before the judge investigating the so-called Pujol case through a letter in which he accused the latter and another former employee, Antonio Tamarit , of charging the funds reserved for participating in Operation Catalonia , is that is, the investigation that was opened to detect the origin of Jordi Pujol's fortune and the financing mechanisms of the CDC party.

Just over 30 minutes was this detective in the testimony room, where he has declared as alleged author of the reports that the former police officer sold to the owner of La Finca Susana García Cereceda to discredit his sister Yolanda and his father's widow by inheritance, Silvia Gómez Cuétara . Marco has acknowledged to the judge that the reports were his own and that Method 3 prepared them in 2012 at the request of the widow Gómez Cuétara, interested in knowing the assets of her deceased husband.

Precisely, these reports were confiscated by the Police in 2013, within the framework of the judicial investigation of Operation Catalonia by which the agents registered the detective agency Method 3 and intervened documentation among which were the aforementioned reports. Francisco Marco has assured the magistrate that one of the works that Villarejo sent to Susana García Cereceda was manipulated. This detective plans to appear as an indictment in the Villarejo case for the facts described.

The retired commissioner, who has been in pretrial detention since November 5, 2017 - is being investigated for alleged crimes of criminal organization, bribery, laundering, embezzlement, document falsehood, discovery and disclosure of secrets, among others -, was cited To declare this Wednesday, September 11, before the judge for another of the private works he performed for third parties.

The judge has suspended the statement of the former police officer after his legal representative claimed that he has to perform an exam in the framework of a university career he is studying from prison, as confirmed by legal sources. Other sources pointed out that the retired commissioner is pursuing a distance degree in Political Science from Estremera prison (Madrid).

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