• Courts The lawyer of the PP met 12 times with the intermediary of Luis Bárcenas after facilitating it Enrique López

  • Interview.Luis Bárcenas: "I have negotiated with two people closely linked to the PP currently to bury the 'hatchet' and they have not complied"

Former treasurer

Luis Bárcenas

has pointed to the current head of Justice and Interior of the Popular Party and counselor of the Community of Madrid

Enrique López

as the person who acted as an "interlocutor" with the conservative formation when he was negotiating peace with his

former

party For more than twenty years after uncovering the existence of a box B. According to legal sources to EL MUNDO, Bárcenas has testified before the head of the Central Court of Instruction Number 6

of the National Court, the judge

Manuel Garcia Castellon

and the Anticorruption Prosecutor's Office, in a secret piece of the Kitchen operation, that López and the party's lawyer

Jesus Santos

they were his intermediaries in the "conversations" he had with Genoa 13. The former financial strongman of the PP was questioned by the instructor for

the interview he gave exclusively

on February 6 to this newspaper where he revealed the following: "I have negotiated with two people closely linked to the PP currently to bury the 'hatchet' and they have not complied." Days later

THE WORLD revealed the identity

of those two people linked to the PP of

Pablo Casado

One of them was his head of Justice, Enrique López, and the other was the party's head lawyer, the former lieutenant prosecutor of the National High Court Jesús Santos.

In addition, this newspaper detailed that Santos met a dozen times between 2017 and 2019 with a close friend Bárcenas, the businessman

Agustin De Diego

, who acted as liaison with the former senator, being López the person who would have facilitated the meetings between the two.

"Room II of the Supreme controlled"

However, both López and Santos have categorically denied having had any negotiations with the former treasurer.

Sources close to Bárcenas assure that the PP promised him that his wife Rosalía Iglesias would not enter prison because the Second Chamber of the Supreme Court "was controlled." Also, Bárcenas has indicated in the National Court this Monday that, although he has publicly referred to two interlocutors with the party, over the years there were more people who participated in these conversations, according to legal sources.

Specifically, he appointed the lawyer

Miguel Duran,

lawyer for number two in the Gürtel plot,

Pablo Crespo

, as another of the people who participated in his negotiation with the PP.

Sources familiar with the meetings have confirmed the presence of Durán in the meetings with the lawyer Jesús Santos to this newspaper.In addition, during the interrogation, which lasted for an hour and a half, the former popular manager also explained that he received the visits in prison. two other lawyers, specifically

Javier Iglesias

, lawyer of Francisco Correa, and of the deceased

Ignacio Peláez

, in addition to that of Durán himself.

The stolen tape

Regarding the material that was stolen in the framework of the Kitchen operation, Luis Bárcenas made reference to a recording of the former president of the Government

Mariano Rajoy

that he had kept in his wife's study in the Salamanca district of Madrid.

It is the tape in which Rajoy supposedly, in the framework of a meeting with the former treasurer in his office, when he is shown the papers of this party accounting B, destroys them with a shredder, without knowing that the former manager kept a copy of On the other hand, Bárcenas has also reported that his representative in the negotiation with the PP, businessman Agustín De Diego, suffered a robbery in an industrial warehouse of his property by some hooded men in full 'Operation Kitchen'.

The former treasurer maintains that the assailants opened several safes with a thermal spear in search of sensitive information against the PP and attributes this episode to the Ministry of the Interior. The former treasurer, who acts as an accusation in this separate piece of the Villarejo case, has He also admitted that he had that tape in his possession but that he no longer has it, sources present in the statement indicate.

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