• 'Box B.' The PP lawyer met 12 times with the intermediary of Luis Bárcenas after facilitating it Enrique López

The lawyer of the PP in the cause for the 'box b' of the formation,

Jesús Santos

, has denied this Tuesday having received instructions from the current national leadership of the party to deal with the former treasurer of the formation Luis Bárcenas and has disassociated his meetings with the businessman in the case.

Santos has spoken this way after reports that the current Minister of the Interior, Justice and Victims of Terrorism of the Community of Madrid,

Enrique López

, put him in contact with a businessman,

Agustín D.

, who acted as a liaison with Bárcenas, as reported by EL MUNDO, who talks about the holding of a dozen meetings between the two since the end of 2017 and 2019.

Sources close to López have confirmed this information to Europa Press, pointing out that, at the beginning of these meetings, the then judge of the National Court

limited himself to putting two unknown persons in contact

.

The lawyer Jesús Santos, former lieutenant prosecutor of the National Court and who represents the PP in the trial for the party's 'box b', has stressed that

his client has "never" entrusted or authorized him to negotiate or deal with Bárcenas

.

In this sense, he recalled that the former treasurer

"has always maintained a very aggressive procedural attitude"

, directly initiating four lawsuits against the popular or people linked to the party from 2013 onwards, "whose result has always been" unfavorable for him.

"The new leadership of the PP, elected in July 2018, has always remained absolutely on the sidelines of the criminal proceedings derived from Luis Bárcenas and, therefore, I have never received instruction in this regard," he stressed in a statement collected by Europa Press .

As for the contacts with the businessman Agustín D., who was the liaison with Bárcenas, he specified that these

took place in his capacity as lawyer

, for a short period of time, and "always" at the request of that person.

In any case, the content of these contacts that took place

"in a short period of time"

is not "at all relevant" nor is it "related" to issues related to a possible meeting with Bárcenas.

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