Podemos asks to incorporate the 'corruption audios' into the 'Villarejo case'

The general secretary of Podemos, Ione Belarra, at an event in Murcia, in April. Marcial Guillén (EFE)

We can move to incorporate the so-called corruption audios into the

and thus try to prosecute the campaign of false information perpetrated against the party by the

, the group of agents that maneuvered against opposition groups during the Jorge Fernández Díaz period (PP) as Minister of the Interior.

The formation has presented a brief in the National High Court where it asks the judge Manuel García-Castellón to add to the summary the conversations of the commissioner José Manuel Villarejo with María Dolores de Cospedal, former general secretary of the PP;

with Mauricio Casals, president of

and assistant to the presidency of Atresmedia;

and with the journalist Antonio García Ferreras.

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Podemos refers to two audios published this July by EL PAÍS and the

website .

The first includes a conversation supposedly held on May 5, 2017 between Villarejo and Cospedal, then Minister of Defense and Secretary General of the PP.

During the talk, the commissioner details how the so-called PISA report (Pablo Iglesias SA) was fabricated, a false police report without a signature that was leaked to the press in 2016 to spread the false idea that the political leader had received illegal money from the Iranian dictatorship.

Also, the policeman tells his interlocutor that he has alleged information about ETA meetings with the Cuban secret service and members of Podemos, to which she replies: “Damn, that's a bomb [...] I do know that. I want".

“From the content of these audios, repeated and systematic practices of police bodies dependent on the Ministry of the Interior of manufacturing false information against the party and its leaders, for subsequent disclosure in certain media, are clearly deduced,” highlights the letter sent this Wednesday. Judge García-Castellón, to whom EL PAÍS has had access.

Podemos insists that these maneuvers have "an obvious connection" with the

, one of the lines of investigation of

that deals with police espionage on former popular treasurer Luis Bárcenas to seize compromising documents on high-ranking PP officials.

This case also revealed that members of the

They tried to boycott the judicial investigations into the

after the arrival of Mariano Rajoy at La Moncloa.

The formation emphasizes that Villarejo informed Cospedal – who was investigated in Kitchen, but was later dismissed – “of some alleged investigations carried out by certain police officers outside of any judicial control, consisting of fabricating false reports and evidence.”

Last May, the PSOE also requested that the investigation against the former general secretary be reopened after EL PAÍS published another unpublished conversation between politics and the commissioner, in which she said: "The little notebook... it would be better to be able to stop it." in alleged reference to the

.

Podemos asks the judge to include in the summary a second audio published last weekend, where Villarejo details to Casals and Ferreras another montage perpetrated to attribute to Iglesias a false account in the tax haven of the Grenadine Islands, published by the

website and disseminated later by the presenter of La Sexta.

Ferreras denies that at that time he knew it was a hoax.

But the party maintains that they were all part of a campaign by the

to produce false information and then deliver it "to certain digital media with the undisguised objective of discrediting political rivals in a context of electoral contest."

Pablo Echenique, spokesman for Podemos in Congress, explained this Wednesday that his formation "does not understand why these confiscated recordings have not been incorporated into the cause."

In addition, the party has asked the judge to explain if there are more audios pending to be added to the summary, despite the fact that they are in the possession of the investigators of the Internal Affairs Unit (UAI) of the Police, which leads the investigations of

.

"And, if it is confirmed that said recordings are not among the seized material, the parties are informed of said circumstance, for the appropriate purposes," the formation emphasizes.