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The lawyer

Joaquín Ruiz de Infante

has renounced the defense of the former treasurer of the PPLuis Bárcenas both in the case that is still pending trial in the National Court, the one related to the alleged

box B

of the

popular

, as in the investigation of the called

Kitchen operation

in which he is personified as injured.

Legal sources have informed Europa Press that the lawyer, who has been in defense since 2015, has made this decision after the National High Court refused to release funds from the former treasurer to pay his fees.

The lawyer alleged that the non-payment represented a violation of the right of defense, although, in the sentence handed down in May 2018 for the first period of the Gürtel plot (1999-2005), the magistrates rejected this complaint.

As they pointed out, this argument is "incompatible" because it could not be denied "the dedication that, in time and arguments," Bárcenas' lawyers devoted to his defense, being "possibly the most self-sacrificing of those who have participated in this trial."

Ruiz de Infante joined the team of lawyers in March of that year who defend the former "popular" treasurer and his wife, Rosalía Iglesias.

The change comes two months after the Supreme Court has confirmed the ruling of the National Court, reducing the sentence to prison for Bárcenas from 33 years and four months to 29 years and one month.

However, the former treasurer of the PP faces another trial as of February 8, for which the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office asks him for another five years in prison, the one related to the payment of the works of the national headquarters of the party with money from alleged box 'B'.

In addition, the National Court keeps open the investigation of the alleged parallel accounting of the political formation, the details of which have been noted in what are known as 'Bárcenas papers'.

To all this is added that Bárcenas, his wife Rosalía Iglesias -also in prison serving the sentence of 12 years and 11 months for the first years of activities of the 'Gürtel'- and, recently, his son Guillermo, are represented as injured in the Piece 7 of the 'Tandem' case, which investigates the parapolice operation set up in 2013 to spy on the personal and family environment of the former treasurer in order to snatch the possible sensitive documentation of the PP that he may have in his possession.

It is the third time that Bárcenas has been forced to change lawyers, since in 2013 it was Miguel Bajo and Alfonso Trallero who resigned due to loss of confidence and discrepancies over the defense strategy to be developed in the framework of the Gürtel case.

The substitute was the former judge of the National Court Javier Gómez de Liaño, who led the defense for only two years.

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