In the first half of the 90s, a conversation took place between King Juan Carlos and the artist Bárbara Rey, during which the then head of state celebrated that Alfonso Armada – one of the people convicted of participating in the 23F coup attempt – had said “not a word” about the monarch after his brief stay in prison. In the first half of the 90s, the tenant of the Moncloa Palace was Felipe González, but the former president, as he said on Thursday, has “no fucking idea” about these intimate conversations.
In fact, it was his government that pardoned Armada in 1988. It was also his government that was involved in a controversy over the use of earmarked funds (which would have been used, among other things, to pay for the silence of the artist). In statements to the press upon his arrival at the Toja Forum this Thursday, the former president – on whom the intelligence services depended – was very angry with the informants who questioned him about these audios.
“I have no fucking idea what you’re talking about.” I don’t know if you understand: I don’t hear these audios, and now that you tell me what they’re about, I won’t listen to them anymore. There are serious problems,” González told the press, trying to downplay the importance of these recordings.
The audios, published this week by OKDiario, also show Juan Carlos concerned about the fate of the former director general of the Civil Guard, Luis Roldán, who after having appropriated precisely millions of pesetas from the reserved funds, was on the run. of Spain between 1994 and 1995, with González still at La Moncloa.
A member of the PSOE since 1976, Roldán was first a socialist councilor in Zaragoza, government delegate in Navarre until 1986 and, later, director general of the Civil Guard until 1993: he has always been a civil servant under the governments by Felipe González.
“I hope they find him,” Juan Carlos I told Bárbara Rey during this conversation about Luis Roldán. Later, however, the monarch clarified: “Even if between you and me, the Civil Guard says it is better that they do not find him. Better to find him dead. Roldán served his prison sentence until 2005, after being sentenced to 28 years in prison for embezzlement, bribery, tax evasion and fraud, a sentence which was later extended to 31 years in prison by the Supreme Court.
