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

The judge of the National Court

Manuel García-Castellón

has refused to return to retired commissioner José Manuel Villarejo his personal agendas, which would include a contact telephone number for the former Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy. In addition, the magistrate has asked the Internal Affairs Unit (UAI) to verify whether Villarejo contacted the

popular

leader

through various terminals.

In an order dated July 19, to which

Europa Press

has had access

, the head of the Central Court of Instruction number 6 dismisses the request of the defense of Villarejo, who on July 9 requested that "the original" be returned to him. of their personal diaries or a digital copy arguing that they were "essential" to defend themselves and to "collaborate and continue to provide accurate data."

The magistrate recalls that, in the present case, Villarejo "has access to the agendas, so there is no limitation whatsoever regarding his right to publicity, being able to consult them under equal conditions to any other party in person, as has been doing".

In addition, García-Castellón maintains that "to the extent that the agendas can serve, incidentally, for the clarification of the investigated facts, they must be" kept by the court itself "for the oral trial, without being able to access the return" requested by the commissioner.

"Intimate and personal" character

In the letter that his lawyer,

Antonio José Cabrera

, sent to the judge, it was argued that "like his brain, his personal diary" could not be "removed as a lobotomy so that he could not" remember "and with it be able to defend yourself.

His representation then alluded to the "intimate and personal" nature of the notebook, "a written reflection of his memory" that could "not constitute either the object or the instrument of the crime under investigation."

But the judge reminds that it corresponds to the summary phase "to carry out all those actions aimed at preparing the trial and practiced to find out and record the perpetration of the crimes with all the circumstances that may influence their qualification, and the guilt of the offenders , ensuring their people and their pecuniary responsibilities ".

In this line, the magistrate points out that the "constitutional doctrine obliges the judge to verify that the claim of proceedings responds, first, to the assumption of exceptionality and, second, limits its objective to gathering essential factual elements, without which practice cannot be carried out the typicality judgment on which the accusation is based ".

The messages with Rajoy

Likewise, the judge of the National Court agrees to officiate at the UAI in order to carry out whatever steps are appropriate to verify the existence of communications between the telephone lines provided by Villarejo.

The retired commissioner himself provided up to five different numbers from which he would have exchanged messages with Rajoy in his time at the head of the Executive.

On August 2, in his statement to García-Castellón, Villarejo pointed out that at one point they provided him with Rajoy's own phone numbers that he used to communicate with him through messages.

This direct contact, he pointed out, was due to the fact that the President of the Government would not trust the information transmitted to him from the Ministry of the Interior about the

Kitchen operation

and wanted another communication channel.

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