-There are constant payments that are noted in the documents.

Did you receive these amounts? "

-No, not at all, I emphatically deny it.

It is false that you have received those amounts.

All the perceptions and rewards that I have had throughout my life have been with the appropriate withholdings and the corresponding declaration to the Tax Agency.

In these terms, Ángel Acebes denied on Monday that he had collected black money from the PP, as can be seen from the annotations of former treasurer Luis Bárcenas.

The former secretary general of the PP has appeared as a witness in the trial for box B that is held at the National Court.

Acebes responded to a question from the Anticorruption prosecutor

Antonio Romeral

, who had just reminded him of his presence in the so-called

Bárcenas papers

.

There he appears receiving "regular payments" of 6,300 euros between 2004 and 2008, which totaled 107,100 euros.

Acebes recalled that other former general secretaries have denied the same before the Justice.

Mariano Rajoy

,

José María Aznar

,

Francisco Álvarez Cascos

,

María Dolores de Cospedal

and

Javier Arenas

are also summoned in the trial and will have to answer the same question.

Beyond the specific payments, the former party official has denied having had any news of the existence of parallel accounting.

"I did not know and do not know the existence of a box B or money B of the PP at any time, with which I can hardly instructions of a box that I do not know and a money that did not exist in the PP".

This refusal has corresponded to another of the aspects that the trial focuses: the party's decision to invest in Libertad Digital shares.

According to the Prosecutor's Office, the black money invested did not return to the PP, which costs Bárcenas an accusation from the prosecutor for misappropriation.

Supposedly it was Acebes who gave approval to the purchase, something that he has rejected.

Of the reform, nothing

The catalog of refusals has reached any knowledge of how the payments for the reform of the headquarters of the PP on Genova street were forged.

The payment of a part in B is the central object of the trial.

"Nobody informed me how it was going to be paid. Not in A, not in B, or in any other way."

Beyond denying the annotations of having received payments and the existence of box B, the witness began his statement by distinguishing the functions of the treasurer, with "economic" responsibilities, from those of the general secretary, who he described as strictly "political. ".

Before Acebes, the former president of Libertad Digital, Alberto Recarte, who has also denied the agreement with the PP for this purchase of shares, has appeared.

And before that, a rich variety of those named in the papers have appeared.

After denying that he had received bonuses, the prosecutor wanted to know if he had any explanation - Acebes did not have one - for the fact that those payments were false when the papers are full of payments that their recipients have assumed.

Some just before Acebes.

The "friend" of Bárcenas

One of them has been

Luis Fraga

, former senator of the PP, nephew of

Manuel Fraga Iribarne

and "friend" of Luis Bárcenas, with whom he shared mountaineering days in the Himalayas and a bank account in Switzerland.

Fraga has confirmed that he received two payments from the to offset "campaign expenses" that he had advanced.

He has also reinforced the credibility of Bárcenas' papers by insisting on the "meticulousness" of the former PP treasurer.

Bárcenas "wrote everything down", and proof of this would be what he has called "the Soto papers", as he has called the annotations that Bárcenas has kept in prison on the books he was reading.

"Do you know why Mr. Bárcenas is in prison?", The PP lawyer,

Jesús Santos

, has asked him

.

After a few seconds thinking, the answer was: "He is the scapegoat of this whole story."

The lawyer then recalled the penalties for tax fraud, money laundering and misappropriation already imposed and wanted to know if at some point Bárcenas clarified to any of his mountaineering trips where he had taken so much as to have more than 40 million in Switzerland.

They did not talk about money, said the witness.

"Right, none"

Fraga was the first recipient of money from the papers to testify.

Moments before, the first supposed recipient had done it, a certain María Pulido, to whom two donations for a total of 48,000 euros are attributed.

The witness stated that it must have been someone else.

"I am not that Pilar Pulido. I have always been María Pilar, not Pilar. Anyway, no."

Her engineering company then had business with the Ministries of the Environment and Development, but it did not suit her that no one from that company paid.

"They were quite left-wing people, they had quite a mania for the PP people. When there was going to be a change of government they said, and see if you vote for those who can give us work, which are the Socialists or the Communist Party. .

The next witness should have been the businessman

Adolfo Sánchez García

.

He has not appeared because at the last minute he has reported that he is confined by coronavirus.

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