Anti-corruption considers Villarejo's emails with the CNI to be good but denies that they free him from other illegal activities

The

explained this Wednesday at the National Court that the emails crossed between the CNI and José Manuel Villarejo "have all the signs of being true."

And that they would reflect that the retired commissioner collaborated with the Spanish intelligence services in an operation in Equatorial Guinea.

This was stated by the prosecutor

at the beginning of his intervention to respond to the previous questions raised in the previous sessions by the defenses of the twenty defendants in the first trial of the

.

Before the prosecutor started, Villarejo's lawyer,

, had asked the court to incorporate into the case the information from this newspaper that indicates that the emails with orders to Villarejo had been sent from a server that belongs to the CNI .

What the prosecutor has denied is that the collaboration in a project covered other actions of the then active commissioner who sought their own economic benefit.

"This is the essence of the prosecution's accusation. We do not deny that Villarejo is a spy or former spy who collaborates randomly or structurally with the Spanish secret services. What matters is that if he does so, he takes advantage of that authorized function known to his commanders. , including collaboration with the CNI, to profit. That is what is absolutely intolerable, what is reprehensible and what the emails seem to show, far from exculpatory, "said Serrano.

"You have to focus"

"It is as if [Villarejo] did not want to know exactly what the prosecutor is accusing him of. You have to focus. Witches do not exist. If there are any, look for them outside of this procedure," he added.

Villarejo's defense considers that bribery accusations cannot continue to be upheld against his client after elements such as the emails with the CNI show that the companies he employed were under the cover of the security forces or the intelligence services.

The Prosecutor's Office has rejected that interpretation, as well as the essential claims of Villarejo's defense - and other defendants - to declare the case null and void for various reasons.

Among them, one linked to the same Equatorial Guinea operation: that the origin of the investigation against him is spurious, since it was an anonymous complaint about the payments to Villarejo for the

.

He maintains that it was a maneuver by the CNI, with which he was confronted, and that the center used a lawyer who was between a rock and a hard place due to fiscal problems.

Anonymous complaint

The prosecutor has denied that the case started with a mere anonymous complaint, because what came to Anti-Corruption included documents whose veracity and legality they verified before proceeding further. "It did not begin with an anonymous complaint, but rather through an Anti-Corruption investigation that leads to a complaint that is accompanied by requests for evidence supported by these investigative proceedings. Only when it is essential to carry out records does the judicial authority go."

Nor has he accepted the thesis that it was a prospective investigation in which Villarejo was searched to see what was against him. Serrano has maintained that the investigators knew what they were looking for: Villarejo's private businesses such as the one they had detected related to Equatorial Guinea, in which the commissioner would have charged more than four million for a report on the succession of the country's president, Teodoro Obiang.

The prosecutor has opposed much of the evidence proposed by Villarejo.

Among them, the appearance as witnesses of former presidents

and

, to testify about their services as intelligence agents.

Nor does the prosecutor support the appearance of the President of the Government himself,

, for his words at the UN in which, according to Villarejo's defense, he anticipated the guilt of the policeman.

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