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"I meet with this lady at the request of the CNI, not spontaneously because I get bored in the afternoons. I obviously do it because they ask me to."

This is how José Manuel Villarejo explained to the judge the origin of his encounters with the intimate friend of the King Emeritus Corinna Larsen.

The statement set by the then judge of the

at the National High Court,

for July 26, 2018 focused on the recording seized by the Police in which Larsen tells Villarejo alleged irregular activities of Don Juan Carlos.

The former commissioner avoids going into these details, claiming that he did not want to violate the confidentiality in which his meeting with Larsen had developed.

The judge's first question is the one that prompts the retired commissioner to explain the alleged intervention of the CNI: "It seems strange to me that in that conversation he says that the phones are going to be turned off on the table. Therefore, it shocks me that it was recorded by you. How was it recorded? ", asks De Egea, according to the recording of the interrogation that the parties have now been able to access.

"I could not tell you how," Villarejo begins, "what I do know is that before the conversation I maintained contact with members of the CNI who accompanied me. I do those meetings with this woman at the request of the CNI, not spontaneously because I get bored by I don't know what to do in the afternoons. I obviously do it because they ask me to. "

The 'Janus' file

The person interrogated adds that at one point the CNI agents ask him to leave his jacket, which they return to him shortly after.

That is when he imagines that they installed "the device" that at the end of the meeting the agents controlled again.

Villarejo explains that the CNI's interest was to recover a file called

of which Larsen had a copy and which, supposedly, included information on "personalities from this country, with a section called

where there was information on judges, prosecutors, etc."

The role that the CNI entrusted to him with respect to Larsen was "to gain his confidence and to draw him out."

According to Villarejo, he did not succeed, just as the intelligence services had not achieved before despite the "threats" to Larsen.

After clarifying the recording of the meeting "in London in 2014 or 2015", in which the former president of Telefónica

was present

, the judge asks Villarejo about three matters compromised for Don Juan Carlos.

The business of the King Emeritus in Morocco

"What do you know about the purchase of land by the Emeritus King in Marrakech in collusion or through the King of Morocco?"

The policeman avoids responding.

"I can't go deep in because Corinna believed she was talking to a lawyer and she seems helpless to her and other people."

The following are "the contracts in relation to the King emeritus filed through a cousin of his", but he gets the same response from Villarejo, who also does not detail anything about the last point addressed by the judge: "I have to ask him about a commission which are said to have been paid to King Emeritus in connection with the construction of the AVE to Mecca ".

"I refer to the aforementioned," he concludes when the judge insists that he temporarily place the purchase, the contracts and the commissions.

Not to be disclosed

Later in the interrogation, Villarejo reminds the magistrate that he has insistently asked "that certain information be restricted and that the CNI have it", because if they were disclosed they could cause "serious" damage to large Spanish companies.

The request was made when the multiple pieces of the

that have affected companies such as

or

had not yet been activated

.

Villarejo explains to the judge that at the beginning of the month his defense had told him that he would soon be released on bail, and that he was convinced that he would be.

"The following week I'm walking through the prison yard and they tell me 'hey, they're talking about you.' Let's see what it will be ... this comes up [the possible crimes of the King Emeritus] and from that moment on I realize that I am not going to leave prison alive, "explains Villarejo, who ends up insisting that he will not give details of what the judge asks him.

"I, never. With their defects and virtues, the Spanish owe a lot to the King. The monarchy is a pillar. I will never do any kind of coercion."

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