Enrique Olivares dies, the false priest convicted of assaulting the house of Bárcenas

Enrique Olivares (left), in 2014 at the National High Court. Santi Burgos

Enrique Olivares García, who in 2014 was convicted of assaulting the home of former PP treasurer Luis Bárcenas posing as a priest, died on Saturday in Cuenca at the age of 72, according to

and sources from Efe confirmed to the agency. its environment. Olivares died at 8:00 on Saturday, a day in which a wake was held at the Ronda Alameda Funeral Home in Cuenca. The funeral was held this Sunday at 10:00 in the parish of La Paz, as confirmed by sources from the Cuenca funeral home.

Olivares Enrique Garcia was in third grade prison, hosted Article 86.4 of the Penitentiary Regulation by which he could spend the

night at home always accept that their movements were controlled by telematics devices. In 2014 he was sentenced to 22 years in prison for retaining a year before the family Barcenas, bind their hands with flanges and threaten to hand over all the "

" and information on the process of the extesorero to "end the Government of the nation".

To enter the home, Olivares posed as a priest who came from the Bishopric to speak about the freedom of Bárcenas – at that time in preventive detention after his fortune had surfaced in Switzerland. At 20 minutes, he said; "The theater is over!" He took out a revolver and pointed a gun at the ex-treasurer's wife, her son and the domestic worker, as the court declared.

In October 2020, the fake priest was called to testify as a

possible accomplice in bribery and embezzlement in the

, part of the Villarejo case in which an alleged spy operation sponsored by

the Ministry of the Interior to protect it investigates the PP at the time of former Interior Minister Jorge Fernández Díaz, who is being prosecuted for these events. According to

the summary has found, police spied without judicial control Barcenas after the country published

and when the Conservative party finance chief was preparing to pull the rug. The underlined statement that the alleged aim of this irregular deployment was to

wrest incriminating documents of senior training that could still save and avoid arrived to the judge Pablo Ruz, who was investigating the

and box b of training.

When Olivares was going to testify, the coroner who examined him before he appeared determined that it was unable to testify before the magistrate of the Audiencia Nacional Manuel Garcia Castellon, so that his interrogation was suspended. The judge tried to figure out whether it was part of the operating Kitchen, prompting him in January 2019 to request information on the relationship of visits and calls he received in prison, and the identity of the persons who had made some income in the accounts of peculio (deposit of money with which an inmate in prison counts), as stated in the summary of the case.

The 2013 episode was the subject of some questioning in the case.

One of the defendants who was asked about these events was former commissioner Enrique García Castaño —considered a collaborator of José Villarejo in his espionage business—, who referred to the episode as "an Alfredo Landa movie", something "insane", a " circus” and a “fudge”.

The judge expressed his suspicions about that episode, which coincided in time with the Kitchen operation.