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The former Secretary of State for the Interior

Francisco Martínez

has asked Judge

Manuel García Castellón for

the "complete accounting" of payments with reserved funds between January 2013 and November 2016, the period in which the so-called

Kitchen operation

was developed

to investigate Luis Bárcenas .

Martínez extends the petition to all payments made during his tenure.

Martínez has presented a brief before the

Court of Instruction number 6

of the National Court after hearing his decision to again request the

Ministry of the Interior

new details about the payments made against the aforementioned item.

The former

number two

of the Interior indicates that "there is no objection to the sending from the Secretary of State for Security all the information related to the accounting of the reserved funds in order to dispel any doubts about the level of knowledge and control over such matter corresponds to the head of the Secretary of State ".

In fact, Martínez emphasizes that he already requested it without success last May.

"It is intended by the court that the Secretary of State determines what should be considered payment to permanent collaborators and payment to occasional collaborators, on the one hand, and, on the other, specify the category or concept to which the purchase of computer equipment or the buying a gun for a collaborator, "he remembers.

The judge has requested more details specifically in relation to the payments made as a confidant to the former driver of Bárcenas,

Sergio Ríos

, as well as the purchase of a regulation weapon that he himself requested.

In turn, he asks for more information about the acquisition of the laptop in which the commissioner

Enrique García Castaño

assured that the content of several mobile phones of the former PP treasurer was overturned.

In this section, the purchase of equipment and material usually includes acquisitions, for example, of surveillance systems for certain personalities in the police or judicial field when they must be acquired urgently, according to sources close to Interior.

Legal expert

Along these lines, Martínez explains that the Secretary of State lacks competence "to resolve this requirement," which in her opinion would end up becoming a kind of "legal expert."

It emphasizes that Royal Decree 400/2012 "does not attribute" to this body "any competence related to the use and control of reserved funds and neither the interpretation of their own regulations or the development of instructions or criteria for their application" .

"The necessary consequence of this is that it is up to the courts and tribunals of Spain to interpret the regulations in this regard, emphasizing in any case that legal experts are prohibited," he continues.

For this reason, it considers "said with due respect" that the "request for information" issued by the judge is "impossible to fulfill" and, therefore, would be much more "illustrative and illuminating the level of knowledge due to the surrender of accounts that the aforementioned Secretary of State has on specific police operations, the remission of the specific accounting that appears in the Cabinet of Coordination and Studies ".

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