Rajoy's 'number two' of Interior rejects having pressured Bárcenas' lawyer. Francisco Martínez, who has declared himself under investigation in the National Court, assures that he did not know the former treasurer of the PP.
The judge took this step after receiving two reports from the National Police that detail the existence of at least nine entries in the handwritten diaries of retired commissioner José Manuel Villarejo that indicate that both allegedly knew about the pressure on the lawyer.