Villarejo, days before Kitchen: “Chisco says that Min. Spoke with Raj. and everything is ok "

The retired commissioner José Manuel Villarejo, upon his arrival at the National Court, last March.Olmo Calvo

The last 13 notebooks intervened on retired commissioner José Manuel Villarejo shed new indications about the scope of his political relations, one of the main implicated in the operation supposedly hatched in the Ministry of the Interior in 2013 to spy on former treasurer Luis Bárcenas and prevent him from compromising documentation for leaders of the PP will come to justice. Villarejo wrote down on July 6, 2013, just five days before Interior launched Operation Kitchen, the details of a conversation he allegedly had with the then Secretary of State for Security, Francisco Martínez, whom he refers to by the alias of

. Among those annotations, the commissioner writes: "He says that Min [supposedly minister] spoke with Raj [Rajoy] and everything is ok."

Just before, the policeman had noted, also as part of the content of his conversation with

by Jorge Fernández Díaz, a reference to "several calls about an appointment between the Church [ias] and Barc [enas] in prison on Monday." Supposedly it refers to the meeting that the lawyer Javier Iglesias, close to the PP, was going to have with the former treasurer, then in prison, and that materialized two days later, on July 8. The researchers give high credibility to the content of the agendas, which they consider a kind of "personal diary" intended for "the private reading of whoever made them" in which Villarejo wrote down as a "record", between 2007 and 2016, the alleged "activities", "appointments or communications with third parties", as well as the dates on which they occurred and a "brief description of their purpose".

It is not the first time that Rajoy's name appears in the summary of the

. The Internal Affairs Unit of the National Police already pointed out in a report in which it analyzed one of the recordings seized from Villarejo, the possibility that the former president of the Government had “knowledge” of the para-police network to snatch documents from the ex-treasurer of the PP Luis Bárcenas . From those audios, the agents concluded that the operation was "coordinated" by Francisco Martínez, already accused in the case, and that someone whom those involved referred to as

had knowledge of it. In a later letter, the Anticorruption Prosecutor's Office attributed this nickname to Rajoy.

Commissioner José Luis Olivera, who this Thursday Judge Manuel García-Castellón has cited as a defendant in the case, also did it last May, in his appearance in the congressional investigation commission. To questions from the deputies, the police high command confirmed that Villarejo used both that alias and

to refer to the former president of the Government. In the lower house, a second former high-ranking police officer, Commissioner Enrique García Castaño, known as

and who collaborates with the justice system, expressed his conviction that Rajoy was informed of the operation through Villarejo, of whom he said that “always he has had access to very high political levels ”.

In other scattered annotations in his notebooks, the retired commissioner collects references to the supposed recordings of the security cameras of the headquarters of the PP on Genova street, as reported by Cadena SER

and has confirmed THE COUNTRY.

Thus, on July 23, 2013, Villarejo notes: “68 cameras-visits last.

4-5 years ”and then“ Villar Mir the identified one (coming up with briefcases) ”.

Only a month before, the PP had answered the judge of the National Court Pablo Ruz, instructor of the

, that he did not keep images of his video surveillance circuit when he required them to check if the businessmen who appeared in

as supposed donors of box b they went to the training headquarters. The businessman Juan Miguel Villar Mir was one of them. A few days later, the commissioner collects a new note: “Hard drive erased. Images 6 and 7 and elevator ”. The sixth floor is where the offices of the then treasurers, Álvaro Lapuerta - now deceased - and Bárcenas, were located.