• Púnica Case. Luis Bárcenas to the judge in the 'Punic case': "Lapuerta and I gave 60,000 euros to Esperanza Aguirre from a builder"

The former general secretary

of the Madrid PP, Francisco Granados,

denies

Luis Bárcenas,

denies that

Esperanza Aguirre

received an envelope with 60,000 euros in black in his presence and asks the judge to confront the PP treasurer.

The former high-ranking

popular official

has presented a brief before Judge

Manuel García-Castellón,

instructing the

Púnica case,

to which EL MUNDO has had access, to categorically deny the veracity of the episode reported by Bárcenas in his recent statement as a witness before the instructor.

Granados asserts, through his lawyer

Javier Vasallo,

that the former head of the PP finances not only lies but that the facts he described would be widely prescribed.

Therefore, he assures that the testimony of Bárcenas was directly "a waste of time."

It should be remembered that the former treasurer of the PP recounted how "between 2007 and 2008" the builder

Luis Gálvez,

owner of the

Ploder

company

,

went to the national headquarters of the party to deliver 60,000 euros in cash as a donation.

Always according to Bárcenas, that money was, immediately afterwards, delivered by hand by his then boss,

Álvaro Lapuerta,

to the former president of the Community of Madrid, Esperanza Aguirre.

He added that he did it in the presence of Granados and the former manager of the party in Madrid,

Beltrán Gutiérrez.

"All the statements made by Bárcenas are false," Granados emphasizes in his writing.

But it is that, in addition,

"the facts would be more than prescribed."

At the same time, he emphasizes that Bárcenas made it clear that there were no more payments than the one described, so there could not be a continuing crime that interrupted the prescription.

Finally, whoever was Aguirre's right hand man asked the judge, "immediately", to hold a "confrontation" with Bárcenas "to clarify the reasons that led him to testify as a witness" in

Punica

"speaking of absolute generalities or placing him in his office "during the collection when" he was not even the campaign secretary "who should receive the contributions for it.

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