García Castellón accuses the former 'number two' of the Interior with the PP for alleged pressure on Bárcenas' lawyer

He also accuses former DAO Pino but does not cite either former Police Director Ignacio Cosidó or lawyer Alejandro Auset.

MADRID, 19 Ene. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The judge of the National Court investigating the alleged pressure on the former treasurer of the Popular Party Luis Bárcenas and his former lawyer Javier Gómez de Liaño has agreed to charge in this case the former 'number two' of the Interior Francisco Martínez and the former Deputy Operational Director of the Eugenio Pino National Police. Both have already been previously prosecuted by the same judge for their alleged participation in 'Operation Kitchen'.

In an order signed on January 17 to which Europa Press has had access, the magistrate indicates that it is appropriate to "receive a judicial statement as those under investigation" from both, and this based on the elements of the charge "derived from the so-called agendas of the investigated José Manuel Villarejo Pérez".

In this same resolution, the judge refuses to summon the former director of the Police Ignacio Cosidó and the state lawyer on leave Alejandro Auset because none of the statements made throughout the investigation and none of the documents provided to the procedure have established highlight some kind of connection.

It should be remembered that this investigation is part of separate piece number 36 of the 'Villarejo case', which was opened to investigate the alleged pressures exerted on Bárcenas and the former magistrate so that information about the PP linked to the 'Gürtel' plot was not published. And that it was opened as a result of the inhibition of the Investigating Court Number 2 of Marbella, agreed upon after proceedings in which the entry and search of the home of Halit Sahitaj and Jana Kleiner had been ordered.

As a result of said entry and registration, the researchers had access to an email address that contained four audio files that, on October 20, 2014, were sent from the email address corresponding to the professional office. of the lawyer Javier Gómez de Liaño.

Said audio files, indicated an order from the Criminal Court, "would reveal in an indicative manner, an order carried out by third parties linked to the Popular Party in order to obtain, through pressure on Luis Bárcenas and his lawyer at the time, in the summary known as 'Gürtel', Javier Gómez de Liaño, that compromising or damaging information for the Popular Party linked to said summary did not come to light."

The Marbella court ordered the Police to issue a report and identify the three interlocutors in the four audio files sent to the email address of Gómez de Liaño, being José Luis Moreno Cela, Mónica Gil Manzano and Juan Ramon Diaz Moro.

In the same police report, information related to Halit Sahitaj, in whose home the audios were found, was revealed, "specified in notes made by retired commissioner José Manuel Villarejo regarding alleged payments received by Gómez de Liaño that could be compromising - -which, in addition, are referred to in the four audio files in order to use them as pressure elements--".

"Likewise, efforts made in 2014 by José Manuel Villarejo himself with Halit Sahitaj to obtain information about said alleged payments were revealed," stated the Court, which pointed out that these efforts had also been referred by the commissioner to the former Secretary of State. of the Interior Francisco Martínez - accused in 'Kitchen' -.

Now, the magistrate indicates that although "until now none of the people who have testified in the case (...) have endorsed the intervention of Francisco Martínez in the events, (...) the truth is that there are different annotations in the so-called agendas of the investigated José Manuel Villarejo Pérez that do make express reference to Javier Gómez de Liaño, and may reveal actions carried out on him in relation to possible opaque payments received from Kalasov at the time when he was acting as defense lawyer for Luis Bárcenas Gutiérrez in what is known as the Gurtel case."

"Francisco Martínez, at the time Secretary of State for the Interior, and Eugenio Pino, deputy operational director of the National Police Corps, would have been informed of these actions regarding Javier Gómez de Liaño, as revealed by the notes recorded by the investigated José Manuel Villarejo. "he points out.

The judge details in his order up to eight mentions that Villarejo makes about Martínez ('Chisco') in his agendas and in relation to Kalasov. All, yes, reflected in Internal Affairs reports.

For his part, regarding the former DAO, the magistrate says that there is also at least one annotation that would reveal "at least his knowledge of some actions carried out on Javier Gómez de Liaño at the time when he was acting as Luis's defense lawyer. Bárcenas in the well-known Gurtel case".

After this, the judge highlights that taking into account that both are being prosecuted in piece 7 - 'Operation Kitchen' - "for facts closely linked to those that are the subject of investigation in this piece, as well as the incriminating content that "presumably they could have both statements, both Francisco Martínez and Eugenio Pino will have to appear with the procedural status of being investigated."

It is worth remembering that in the framework of this case, the former general secretary of the PP, María Dolores de Cospedal, testified in November, who acknowledged that she met with Villarejo on five or six occasions, while at the same time asserting that she does not remember that in those meetings they talked about the former treasurer. of the Luis Bárcenas formation or of his lawyer, Javier Gómez de Liaño, thus distancing himself from the alleged pressures on both.