The judge of the 'Kitchen operation' investigates whether Interior paid with funds reserved to the prisoner whom Bárcenas asked to erase the tape with Rajoy

• Justice The judge investigates whether the Interior spied on Bárcenas' conversations with his lawyers in jail

• Justice The Police show Bárcenas dozens of photographs of prisoners in search of the Interior moles in Soto del Real

• Justice The judge again cites Bárcenas and his wife for the espionage they suffered in the 'Kitchen operation'

Judge

investigates whether the Ministry of the Interior paid with funds reserved to the prisoner whom Luis Bárcenas asked to access his recordings with senior PP officials. The instructor in the

has ordered the Judicial Police to trace in the documentation held by the Deputy Directorate of Operations (DAO) if the Colombian inmate

was paid with public funds

to spy on the former treasurer of the PP.

In this way, the head of the Court of Instruction number 6 of the National Court expands the investigations to determine if the operation to spy on Bárcenas was extended to the interior of the Soto del Real prison (Madrid), where the former high-ranking official entered

in 2013 after uncovering his hidden fortune in Switzerland.

Bárcenas himself told Judge García Castellón that during his first stage in prison he ordered this inmate to access his recordings and erase the one he supposedly had with the former Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy.

The former treasurer explained that he made this decision to have a gesture with the leadership of the PP and redirect his relations with its members.

The Colombian prisoner, for his part, admitted the order, but assured that he gave the money that Bárcenas gave to a computer scientist and that he ended up keeping the money.

Therefore, always according to the version of this inmate, Bárcenas' mandate was never carried out.

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• Mariano Rajoy

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• Luis Barcenas

• Operation Kitchen

• Jose Manuel Villarejo

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JusticiaVillarejo declares to the judge that Rajoy had a "direct interest" in the 'Kitchen operation' and that messages were exchanged on his mobile

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

JusticiaVillarejo noted in his diary that he notified Cospedal of the 'Gürtel operation' two days before: "Storm is coming"

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