• Justice Villarejo noted in his diary that he notified Cospedal of the 'Gürtel operation' two days before: "The storm is coming."

  • Statement The former Chief of Staff of Cospedal contradicts her before the judge: "He met with Villarejo 8 or 10 times"

The retired commissioner José Manuel Villarejo has confirmed before the judge investigating the

Kitchen operation

the interest of the former president of the Government Mariano Rajoy in the espionage operation against Luis Bárcenas.

This was explained by Villarejo himself at the end of his umpteenth statement in the National Court, this time focused on the operation that according to the investigators was mounted from the PP and the Government to prevent the former treasurer of the party from disclosing harmful information to leaders

popular

.

"The fundamental issue is that I have ratified that the president, Mr. Rajoy, had a personal interest in this issue," said the retired commissioner on provisional freedom, who has spent four hours in court.

"I understand that it is normal because it is a State problem, it is logical and I have collaborated from the beginning."

As he explained in a recent letter to Judge

Manuel García Castellón

, Villarejo has indicated that they gave him two telephone numbers that he should use to communicate with Rajoy. According to sources present in the statement, Villarejo's account has also reached the former president of the Government, Soraya Sáenz de Santamaría, who was "informed" of everything by interposed persons and as the head of the CNI.

The policeman's statement has also focused on his relationship with the former general secretary of the PP María Dolores de Cospedal, who this week has appeared before the judge.

The case includes recordings of the meetings at the headquarters of the PP, but Villarejo has added that he met with her when she was Minister of Defense and as a member of the Executive, not of the PP.

"The relations that I had with Mrs. De Cospedal were as a representative of the Government," he said, specifying that the meetings took place until a few days before his arrest in the

Tandem operation

, in 2017.


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  • Jose Manuel Villarejo

  • Mariano Rajoy

  • PP

  • Margaret Robles

  • Maria Dolores de Cospedal

  • National audience

  • Luis Barcenas

  • Justice

Courts The judge investigates whether Interior spied on Bárcenas' conversations with his lawyers in jail

Courts The judge maintains that the police officers of? Kitchen?

They hide the material that they stole from Luis Bárcenas

CourtsCospedal disassociates himself from the 'Kitchen operation' and asks that the real origin of Bárcenas' Swiss fortune be investigated

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