• Investigation: A police officer confesses to the judge that they raided a home of Luis Bárcenas

  • Corruption Interior paid Bárcenas' driver with 500 euro bills to spy on the former treasurer with cameras

A voluminous wooden carving of a crucified Christ had unexpectedly left the headboard of the bed in which it had been several decades and had made its way to the lair of

Luis Bárcenas

, in the middle of winter 2013. The religious image protruded from one's coat of the historic high command of the National Police who, dressed in civilian clothes, and

posing as a dealer of works of art

, entered the portal of number 32 of Madrid's General Díaz Porlier street, in the heart of the Salamanca district. of the portal, the wife of the former treasurer of the PP,

Rosalía Iglesias

, had rented a restoration studio.

At that time, with her husband in preventive prison after uncovering his hidden fortune in Switzerland and the parallel accounting of the PP that he managed for years,

the study served as a hiding place for sensitive documentation against the party leadership and as a meeting center

.

On the surface it was an ideal place.

A few meters from the address of

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