Former Madrilenian president Esperanza Aguirre denies having received an envelope of 60,000 euros for the campaign for the regional elections of 2007, as stated by the ex-treasurer of the PP Luis Bárcenas before the judge of the
Punic case
, Manuel García-Castellón in the National Court.
"These statements are flatly false and have been made in court without any evidence to support them.
Never, ever, at any time, did I receive any money from Mr. Bárcenas or Mr.
Lapuerta ”, Aguirre affirms in a statement in which he also announces a criminal complaint against the former treasurer“ for false testimony ”.
"The accusation made is, therefore, an outright lie and can only be explained in the offer made by Mr. Bárcenas, in his letter to the prosecution, with the evident purpose of improving the prison situation of his wife, in the same terms that Ms. Isabel Jordán has benefited, sentenced to more than 20 years and today released thanks to the actions of the same lawyer who, for just a few weeks, has been defending Mr. Bárcenas and his wife and promoting this procedural strategy, "he adds in his release.
Rosalía Iglesias, Bárcenas' wife, is firmly sentenced to 12 years in prison by the Supreme Court and her husband's collaboration with the courts does not allow the application of any prison benefit for her, as sources from the National Court explain to this newspaper .
In his letter to the Prosecutor's Office, the former Treasurer of the PP did declare that his silence in recent years in which he has been imprisoned was due to the fact that the PP had promised him that his wife would not enter prison if he remained silent.
But Iglesias was finally tried and convicted of a tax offense, money laundering and misappropriation, and entered prison last December.