Anything Goes Against Research

The president of the court announces before the session begins that three of the witnesses scheduled for the next few days will not be able to appear.

One because he is very ill, another because he has died and the third because he is retired and cannot be located, which is indeed passing away.

The prosecutor Romeral immediately intervenes to spoil the lady's golden retirement:

"May you please, Your Honor."

From the prosecutor's office we promise to provide you with the address of Mrs. Marga García-Valdecasas.

For the rest, on Monday he appears dressed as Monday. The menu of the day announces the third consecutive and monographic session with the agents of the UDEF - the unit of the national police that fights against economic and fiscal crime - as a unique dish. In previous days it had already been verified that Manuel Morocho, the chief inspector who leads the group that investigated

Bárcenas' papers,

He is an excellent policeman, but he falters as a speaker and lacks the gift of conciseness.

When those who asked were the prosecutor, the state attorney or the popular accusations, the policeman drew without great difficulty a more or less clear landscape of the shed that, according to their investigations, Luis Bárcenas and the architect Gonzalo Urquijo had set up to pay with money black part of the reform of the headquarters of the PP.

But this Monday the agent is not sailing with the wind in favor.

This Monday the bench in front intervenes, that is, the defense lawyers of Urquijo, of his partner, Belén García;

of the company of both, Unifica;

and the Popular Party (PP).

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• The defenses charge against the police reports on the box b of the PP and the payments in black

Urquijo and the PP know they have it raw.

Morocho, whom the Rajoy government tried by all means to remove from the investigation, is its black beast, and that is why they have hired some of the most expensive lawyers in the sample, including two former prosecutors from the National Court.

The objective is to attack the weak points of the investigation.

And the lawyer in charge of opening the first crack in Morocho's reports is former prosecutor Luis Jordana de Pozas.

It gives the impression that the policeman and the lawyer are old acquaintances, and not exactly friends.

Jordana de Pozas, who usually accompanies her questions with a choreography of gestures and rudeness in the face of the gallery, immediately manages to make the agent nervous, who becomes so keen on his answers that the president of the court ends up giving him a warning:

"I remind you that you are under oath."

It is an unpleasant warning, especially if the witness is the chief inspector who has been investigating political corruption schemes against the current for more than seven years.

The lawyer crashes, the policeman hesitates, his subordinates — seated next to him — throw him a cable when they can, and the prosecutor and the state attorneys do not lose any detail of the dispute.

When Gonzalo Urquijo's lawyer, who also received some reprimand from the president of the court for making “fuss”, finished his task, it was the turn of the lawyer for Belén García, the other Unifica partner.

He is the most veteran of all, and yet he does not resist the temptation to ask a question that is not even a question:

—You said that you have been investigating for seven years together with nine or ten agents. I want to ask you: did you do something right?

The president of the court declares the lawyer's departure from tone impertinent.

Inspector Morocho, at this point, does not blink.

The most expensive lawyers, the most veteran, try to muddy the playing field unnecessarily with darts and provocations, when the youngest - whether they are from the State's legal profession, the popular prosecution or the defense - are demonstrating a more precise knowledge of the law. summary and composure.

The next chapter will be to know if the prosecutor finds the retired and untraceable woman.

Your testimony is vital to one of the most important matters in the trial.

"Doña Marga" was chief inspector of the National Office for the Investigation of Fraud.