Inspector Morocho states that the judge who investigated Gürtel asked him to look for microphones in his office for fear of being spied on

The forceful account of Manuel Morocho, chief inspector of the Economic and Fiscal Crime Unit (UDEF) of the National Police, continued this Friday. The main investigator of the plot Gürtel has returned to the National Court to offer more details of the boycott he suffered to try to stop the investigations into the corruption network led by Francisco Correa and affected PP leaders. The agent, who arrived at the building almost 20 minutes before the appointment, added this morning that these maneuvers reached such a dimension that, to speak with the magistrate who instructed Gürtel, Pablo Ruz, they had to remain outside the judge's office before the fear that they were spying on them. What's more, he added, Ruz asked him to do a scan of eavesdropping devices in his office,as confirmed by several legal sources present in the interrogation. Sources close to the Ruz court have confirmed this point.

Morocho, who already answered the questions of Judge Manuel García-Castellón and the Prosecutor's Office on Tuesday, has returned to the Hearing to answer this Friday to the questions that were pending before the public prosecutor and those of the rest of the parties in person. the case that investigates the illegal espionage of the former treasurer of the PP Luis Bárcenas, also known as the

. Thus, the chief inspector of the UDEF has shed more details of the irregularities that he detected, and that he attributes to the police leadership of the Government of Mariano Rajoy and the Ministry of the Interior headed by Jorge Fernández Díaz. As he insisted this Friday, they urged him to modify his reports to protect the PP and even forced him to remove a phrase that said: "The flow of money generates a propensity for favors."

According to the agent's account, even Fernández Díaz himself was awaiting his investigations and, through the police leadership, he was told that the minister once ordered one of his reports on the construction companies involved in the case to be completed as soon as possible. . Morocho believes that the objective was to immediately close one of the lines of investigation so that it would come to nothing. Also, according to the same sources, Morocho has said that his superiors reproached him for writing very hard and looking for newspaper headlines.

This Friday, in addition, the figure of the commissioner José Luis Olivera has returned. The chief inspector has assured that he once asked him for the telephone number of Luis Bárcenas' wife, Rosalía Iglesias. According to the version of Inspector Morocho, Olivera is also the person who tried to buy him by offering him a transfer to an embassy, ​​to a better paid position. The judge imputed this Thursday to this commissioner, head of the UDEF until 2012 and later head of the Intelligence Center against Organized Crime (CICO), which would later be renamed Citco. He was dismissed from this position in 2018, after Fernando Grande-Marlaska arrived at Interior.

Morocho's story has revolutionized the investigation of the

. "You leave me a bleak outlook," Judge Manuel García-Castellón even told him during the first part of his statement, which was suspended to continue with it this Friday. This Tuesday, for almost three hours, the chief inspector of the UDEF counted all the irregularities, "anomalies" and "pressures" that he suffered to carry out the investigation of the

. He detailed how they urged him to modify his reports, how they ordered him to eliminate the names of the leaders of the PP, how they tried to buy him, how they wanted to place a mole in their group and how they overloaded him with work to stop the progress of the investigations. "We work in difficult conditions," he summarized before the magistrate.

This new round of interrogations will continue on June 28. Already with the statements of several defendants. As expected, the first to sit down before the judge will be Commissioner José Luis Olivera, whom Morocho has identified as the person who verbalized the attempts to buy him by offering him better-paid destinations. The main course will arrive on June 29, when María Dolores de Cospedal, former secretary general of the PP and former Minister of Defense, is mentioned. On June 30, it will be the turn of the businessman Ignacio López del Hierro, husband of the former popular leader; and José Luis Ortiz, advisor to the former politician. Finally, the magistrate has reserved the morning of July 1 to listen again to the retired commissioner José Manuel Villarejo; and to Francisco Martínez,Secretary of State for Security during the Fernández Díaz stage, also accused in Kitchen.