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The former vice president of the Government Rodrigo Rato has joined this Thursday to the list of senior PP officials - he was deputy general secretary - who deny the veracity of the annotations

of Bárcenas' papers

that affect him.

In his case, for example, the entry that says "first quarter Rodrigo R. 13,700", which according to Luis Bárcenas corresponds to the bonus paid in cash to Rato and taken from box B of the game.

"I do not know those annotations, I do not know their origin, they have nothing to do with me, I do not know who they represent and I cannot speculate about it. Of course, Mr. Bárcenas has never given me money," said Rato at the trial. around box B of the PP that is celebrated in the National Court.

"I do not know its origin and I do not know its fidelity and its veracity. Of course, those that refer to me are false," he repeated in view of the fact that the popular accusations returned to it.

After Rato, the former Defense Minister Federico Trillo appeared, also by videoconference.

According to Bárcenas, the "Federico" who regularly appears receiving bonuses in parallel accounting.

"Do you recognize yourself in those entries?"

"No, I don't recognize myself and I don't recognize the validity of those papers."

Among so many identical refusals heard this week, Trillo did have a new point of view, since as head of the party's Justice he coordinated the initial defense of the former treasurer.

"In those years I had a continuous and close relationship with Bárcenas and his defense and Mr. Bárcenas never admitted for a single second that there was a B box of the Popular Party, that there was abnormal or atypical income in the party boxes, that there were atypical retributions Among the savings banks that he managed, not even less that money had gone abroad. That is the truth of what I spoke with Mr. Bárcenas. "

According to the former treasurer, another of the deliveries to Trillo was to pay for his defense after the indictment in the case for the Yakovlev-42 plane crash.

The mention of the case has angered Trillo, who has also denied that point.

"I do not give any value to these papers," he insisted.

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