The former vice president of the Government Rodrigo Rato will take legal action against the commissioner José Manuel Villarejo for attributing to him in one of the recordings intervened by the Judicial Police the collection of bonuses in black with Mariano Rajoy.

The former high-ranking official of the PP has addressed a letter to judge Manuel García Castellón, to which EL MUNDO has had access, in which he denies the veracity of Villarejo's statements.

The latter assured the businessman Adrián de la Joya that Rato himself had literally confessed to him in a meeting with him: "I was in line, Rajoy was in front of me and each one with the envelope."

Or phrases like: "In the same row where we tied the envelopes was 'El Barbas'", referring to the former Prime Minister.

Rato emphasizes that, "once he has been made aware of such demonstrations," he wants to make it clear to the judge instructing the 'Villarejo case' that he "never carried them out and even less" to the former high command of the police.

"They constitute an authentic fallacy and mendacity that affect me in a serious way," adds whoever was Minister of Economy or president of the International Monetary Fund and Bankia.

For this reason, he announces that "he intends to initiate legal actions that he deems appropriate."

To do this, he asks the instructor to provide him with a "certified copy of the content of the transcripts of the aforementioned recordings" in which he is referred to.

And it specifies, as published in various media, which are found in a report by the Internal Affairs Unit, which acts as the Judicial Police in the so-called 'Tandem case'.

This document is dated last May and incorporated into the piece 'Kitchen', in which the espionage by the Executive that Rajoy presided over former PP treasurer Luis Bárcenas is investigated.

Rato is currently at liberty with telematic control while serving a sentence of four and a half years in prison for the case of the 'black cards'.

The former minister of José María Aznar was released after being acquitted in the 'Bankia case'.

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