The National Court has just specified what the trial, without a date yet, for the parapolice espionage of Luis Bárcenas with reserved funds will look like. Until now, it was known that the then Minister of the Interior, Jorge Fernández Díaz, among others, would sit on the bench. Today, the Criminal Chamber has recognized that most of the people proposed by the popular accusations exercised by Podemos and the PSOE can testify, among them the then President of the Government, Mariano Rajoy, his number two in the Executive and head of the CNI, Soraya Sáenz de Santamaría, and the Secretary General of the PP, María Dolores de Cospedal.
In an order to which elDiario.es had access, the Chamber acknowledges that the workload does not yet allow it to set the date of the trial. When it is held, Rajoy will finally give his testimony on the parapolice operation aimed at sabotaging the judicial case that affected the Popular Party, that of its irregular financing, and on himself, who appears in the fundamental evidence of this case as a beneficiary of black money. from the businessmen. Rajoy has not been charged because the possible tax offense related to the envelopes in box B has been declared prescribed.
Podemos and the PSOE requested at the time the indictment of María Dolores de Cospedal, whom the main accused also indirectly designate – Fernández Díaz and his number two, Francisco Martínez – as the real promoter of an operation to destroy the investigation of Judge Pablo Ruz. through box B of the match. After making a statement as an investigator, Judge Manuel García Castellón, investigator of the Kitchen case, closed the file against her, despite multiple indications, including published conversations with Commissioner Villarejo. “That thing about the notebook would be better if we could arrest him,” the PP’s number two told the corrupt policeman in reference to the “Bárcenas papers.”
Podemos and the PSOE have also requested the statement of Soraya Sáenz de Santamaría, vice-president of the government and then head of the CNI. The participation of the Centre in the manoeuvres against Bárcenas has been a shadow that has spread over the case without García Castellón agreeing to delve into it. The two popular accusations have resulted in Sáenz de Santamaría and Ignacio Cosidó, director general of the police during the events, testifying at the trial as witnesses. The politician who replaced Fernández Díaz in the ministry, Juan Ignacio Zoido, will also have to do so.
