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The former treasurer of the Popular Party

Luis Bárcenas

has appeared this Wednesday before the Investigation Commission of the Kitchen case in the Congress of Deputies where he recognized that there were meetings with "the interlocutors of the PP" until the Supreme Court issued the ruling of the First Gürtel plot time.

However, the former senator has denied that there was a pact with the formation of

Pablo Casado

so that his wife Rosalía Iglesias would not enter prison.

Bárcenas, who has thus changed the version of events that he sent to the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office in his confession prior to the Box B trial, has confirmed the existence of meetings held between the People's Party interlocutors with "a good friend of mine since the middle of the month of July 2016, which have a greater intensity before the conclusion of the trial ", in reference to the oral hearing of Time 1 of the Gürtel plot.

According to Bárcenas, this relationship with the PP "remains practically until the Supreme Court ruling."

However, the former senator has clarified that "at no time has anything been negotiated in exchange. It has been an exclusively exchange of information and, at some point, a common defense strategy."

"They were conversations in the sense of not attacking each other," added Bárcenas to questions from the United Podemos deputy

Pablo Echenique.

In this sense, the former manager added that the former counselor of the Community of Madrid,

Enrique López

, was not one of those interlocutors but the person who put "a good friend of mine with Mr. Santos," in reference to the lawyer of the PP

Jesús Santos.

"Neither on my part nor on the part of the person who has been speaking with the interlocutors of the PP has alluded to the subject of my wife," said Bárcenas who has come to say that his new lawyer,

Gustavo Galán,

was who " he transferred "that extreme" wrong "in his confession brief.

In the confession document, Bárcenas pointed out that "with naivety", he accepted "as good the promise that had been made to me - through intermediaries - that my wife, Rosalía Iglesias, would not enter prison as a result of the dictates of the sentence of the piece of Epoca 1. (...) The feeling of guilt of having been able to cause my wife to be at risk of losing her freedom and going to prison, made me believe, innocently, in the promise (of the Popular Party) ".

"Suppose" that Rajoy ordered Kitchen

At the beginning of his appearance, the former treasurer has indicated that he was availing himself of his right not to testify about the material that was stolen from him in the framework of the para-police operation that was allegedly mounted by the Ministry of the Interior and that is being investigated by the National audience.

The one who was a strong man of finances from Genoa has indicated that "due to legal imperative" and out of respect for Judge

Manuel García Castellón,

instructor of the Kitchen operation, he was not going to answer the questions of the PSOE deputy,

Felipe Sicilia

.

"For once I am an accusation in a case and I am the main interested in knowing if the leadership of the PP of Rajoy and the Ministry of the Interior organized the theft of delicate documentation that I was guarding and the kidnapping of my family," he assured.

Subsequently, it has answered some questions related to Kitchen and has assured that it is unknown who was the "ideological author" of this operation.

At another point in his speech, he said that he "assumes" that it was former President Mariano Rajoy who "gave the order" to former Interior Minister

Jorge Fernández Díaz

to remove all sensitive information that affected the irregular financing of the PP .

On the other hand, Bárcenas recalled that he has "publicly repented" for having "skipped" the Electoral Law and the Party Financing Law "for the benefit of the PP."

"I have assumed the illegality that we committed," he added.

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  • Luis Barcenas

  • Operation Kitchen

  • PP

  • Supreme court

  • Mariano Rajoy

  • Jorge Fernandez Diaz

  • National audience

  • Pablo Casado

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