The judge opens a great case against the corrupt state apparatus during the PP government

The former general secretary of the PP María Dolores de Cospedal, shortly before appearing before the commission of the 'Kitchen case' in Congress, last December.

In the background, in the center, the spokesperson for the PP in the lower house, Cuca Gamarra. Andrea Comas

Manuel García-Castellón, investigating magistrate in the

drafted two apparently contradictory court orders on Tuesday.

On the one hand, he refused to charge the former general secretary of the PP, Dolores de Cospedal, again for allegedly conspiring with the commissioner José Manuel Villarejo to hinder the investigation of

the b box that worked in the PP for 20 years.

The judge considers that the new known audios where Cospedal talks with Villarejo about how to "stop" the publication of the Bárcenas papers;

or how to prevent the compromising reports written by a Police inspector from reaching the judge, they do not implicate her in the

an operation promoted from the Ministry of the Interior to destroy evidence of box b of the PP.

On the other hand, the same magistrate García-Castellón agreed to open a separate piece to investigate

published by EL PAÍS and

including those that prove the involvement of the former general secretary of the PP in the operation to destroy or manipulate tests on the b-box of the conservative formation.

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The judge orders to investigate the 'corruption audios' of Villarejo

To respond to the popular accusations that have insistently asked him to investigate

, the magistrate has opened a separate piece of

or

as it is officially called.

The piece will be number 34 and the judge has already ordered the Police Internal Affairs Unit, the same one that has been investigating since 2017 all the material seized from Commissioner Villarejo, to analyze all the audios published in EL PAÍS, none of them incorporated up to now to the summary, to determine "the relevance" that it could have in the open criminal procedure.

These audios published for three months in this newspaper prove the collusion of the main leaders of the Ministry of the Interior with police commissioners who perpetrated between the beginning of 2012 and the end of 2017, coinciding with the mandate of the Popular Party, illegal operations to discredit and charge crimes. Catalan independence leaders, Podemos and their main leader, Pablo Iglesias;

in addition to his attempt to obstruct the action of justice by eliminating evidence that could demonstrate the illegal financing of the PP for 20 years.

What follows attempts to detail the issues discussed in the corruption audios that the Internal Affairs Unit will analyze at the request of the judge to decide if they may have criminal relevance:

Operation Catalonia

In the last quarter of 2012 and the end of 2017, the so-called

—Villarejo and several trusted commissioners whom the PP appointed to senior positions in the Ministry of the Interior— launched various operations, without any court order, to look for corruption. of Catalan independence leaders.

It all started, according to the audios published by EL PAÍS, in November 2012, when Catalonia was going to hold early elections because President Artur Mas decided to start the independence challenge after a meeting with Mariano Rajoy that ended without an agreement.

Commissioner José Manuel Villarejo leaked to the newspaper

as he himself admits in a conversation with Francisco Martínez, then chief of staff of the Minister of the Interior, a report denouncing numerous corruptions by former president Jordi Pujol;

of the then president Artur Mas, and of other pro-independence leaders.

The report, without date, stamp or signature, denounced multi-million dollar Swiss accounts that never appeared.

CiU, Mas's party, lost 12 of its 62 deputies in the Catalan Parliament in those elections.

Similar police operations, according to the recordings, continued at almost the same pace as the illegal independence challenge in Catalonia.

First, they sought evidence through extortion, as in the case of the Bank of Andorra, to obtain documentation of the fortune that Jordi Pujol was hiding in that country;

then they spread, with the collusion and encouragement of the Minister of the Interior, Jorge Fernández Díaz, false Swiss accounts of the former mayor of Barcelona, ​​Xavier Trías.

In the conversations about what was called Operation Catalonia, the former general secretary of the PP, Dolores de Cospedal, is also present.

In Villarejo's agendas and in his conversations with the

of the Interior, it is detailed how Cospedal got the money for Villarejo to pay the confidants who provided documentation against the Catalan separatists.

Plot against Podemos

Since Podemos managed to enter the European Parliament in May 2014, the police maneuvers promoted by the Ministry of the Interior to discredit this political party were numerous.

First they tried to attribute illicit enrichment to Podemos and its main leader, Pablo Iglesias, through Venezuela or Iran.

They disseminated the famous

(Pablo Iglesias SA) through different media in the first months of 2015. Given its null effects, they decided in March 2015 to denounce Podemos before the Court of Auditors from the Ministry of the Interior, providing the report anonymous.

The Court of Accounts rejected the complaint.

The patriotic police placed in

a false receipt for an alleged income from the Venezuelan Government (272,000 dollars) in an account in the name of Pablo Iglesias in the tax haven of the Grenadine Islands.

The receipt turned out to be false, like all the information that discredited Iglesias.

Other police officers tried to convince former leaders of the Venezuelan government to denounce corruption by Podemos.

There are recordings of all these events.

In one of Cospedal's conversations with Villarejo, the former general secretary expresses her enormous interest in obtaining police information to discredit Podemos.

Cover up the scandal of box b of the PP

In the recordings broadcast by EL PAÍS, there are numerous conversations in the first half of 2013, coinciding with the publication of the secret accounts kept by the former treasurer of the PP, Luis Bárcenas, in which the former general secretary of the conservative party, Dolores de coppice;

and the former Secretary of State for Security, Francisco Martínez, talk with Villarejo about the maneuvers necessary to hinder the judicial investigation opened in this case.

From the analysis of all these audios by the Internal Affairs Unit, recordings that Villarejo secretly recorded and kept in his home, a report should come out, key for the judge to decide whether to open a new general investigation into the sewers of the State in hands of the PP.

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