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Commissioner

, former head of the Central Unit for Operational Support (UCAO) of the Police, began to collaborate with the investigation in January 2019 and told

and the Anticorruption prosecutors the existence of a device to spy to

.

And in his appearance in March, García Castaño specified that both the Prime Minister,

, and the former general secretary of the PP,

, "were aware" of the operation.

García Castaño assured that he intervened to provide support to the Deputy Operational Directorate (DAO) together with the Internal Affairs Unit (UAI).

In his appearance, he explained that one of the first services he provided was to follow up on an individual whom

allegedly

used to access the documentation he had hidden in the cloud.

"It was an individual who was going to speak with an engineer who was Colombian. According to our information, Bárcenas had information about his checking accounts in the cloud and he wanted to delete them."

"He said he wanted a secure deletion.

No contacts with engineers or anything at all," he added in his statement, to which EL MUNDO has had access.

"Another of the support we provide is to know if Bárcenas had front men, because Mr. Bárcenas has the money hidden and well hidden," he added.

In that appearance, García Castaño assured that they found that other intelligence services were carrying out follow-ups on the former treasurer other than those set up by the National Police.

Prosecutor Miguel Serrano

expressly asked him if he had accessed the study of restoration of works of art of the woman from Bárcenas,

, and admitted that they carried out follow-ups in the area.

However, it was not until a later statement that he admitted that he himself entered the property posing as a client who wanted to wear a religious carving to be restored.

That operation had the collaboration of the family's driver,

s, who, as this newspaper revealed, provided the police with the keys to the alarm.

Fernández Díaz denies his involvement

The former Interior Minister,

, has broken his silence in relation to the 'Operation Kitchen' by means of a brief presented before Judge Manuel García Castellón in which he

According to Fernández Díaz, the mobile messages provided by the former Secretary of State for the Interior, in which he attributes knowledge of the operation to spy on Bárcenas, "neither sent nor received them."

"The Court should have verified the authenticity and the reality of such messages, for example, by taking an expert testimony" prior to their summons, he argues through his lawyer Jesús Mandri.

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