Villarejo assures that he is the victim of a "red code" with which the CNI wanted to "silence" him for denouncing illegalities

He maintains that Sanz Roldán's main objective was to get hold of "the loot" of his audios: "He was obsessed"

MADRID, 27 Sep. (EUROPA PRESS) -

José Manuel Villarejo has put the finishing touch to the first trial held by 'Tándem', the macro-cause where his private businesses are investigated, denouncing the "funny origin" of a case that he claims was fabricated by the former head of the CNI Félix Sanz Roldán to "silence him" , with the alleged help of "conspiring" police and prosecutors, as a "revenge" for the complaints that the now-retired commissioner had made about the "use and abuse of state institutions."

Villarejo, dressed in a toga and eyepatch, took the floor in Tuesday's session to finish the report started the day before by his defense attorney, Antonio José García Cabrera, to tidy up the thesis that has dominated his defense strategy throughout of the almost twelve months that this oral hearing already adds up for three specific commissions: 'Iron', 'Land' and 'Pintor', for which he faces 83 years in prison.

"The Villarejo cause is a red code", he started by referring to the film 'Some good men', where "it was ordered to eliminate" one of them and, although "everyone denied it" because applying it was "illegal", in the trial it was discovered. "There can be no more coincidences (...) Following the orders of the head of the CNI, they applied that red code to one of their own because they believed that with their behavior they endangered the pacts and compromises with which the balance of the institutions was maintained. of the State", he has completed.

Thus, he explained that Sanz Roldán's supposed hatred towards him is due to the multiple complaints that he has been making against the general himself, Internal Affairs, anti-corruption prosecutors and "so many powerful" since the 1990s and until 2015 to warn about " the outrage" of "who has allowed the State institutions to be used and abused". For all these reasons, he himself has been described as "a daredevil".

Apart from the personal 'vendettas', the commissioner has pointed out that Sanz Roldán had another objective in mind: the "loot" of his "personal archive" of audios, those of the conversations that he has been recording for years of all those with whom that has met. "What mattered to him, what obsessed him, what worried him were the audios," he emphasized.

In this "assembly", Villarejo has also included the Internal Affairs Unit of the National Police, the Central Operations Unit (UCO) of the Civil Guard and the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office as "conspirators", insisting in this sense that the "hoax "The anonymous complaint from which the case started was never such because all of them would have known from the beginning that the person who sent it was a "CNI agent", David Vidal.

In addition, he has once again stated that since 1995 he had enjoyed a "special status" by which he could "act without anyone in his own body knowing" to obtain information of interest to the State using CENYT as a cover.

At this point, he has stated that all governments since then "used his services for years and ordered him to act in numerous operations." "Shall we open that melon?", He has challenged her.

Subsequently, the commissioner has delved into an extensive review of his professional sheet with which he has highlighted his intervention to prevent attacks, trips to the Middle East and in matters such as 11-M or the GAL, as well as his alleged intermediation with the ex-lover of the king emeritus Corina Larsen.

"If I had not had the conviction of acting as a servant of the State, would I have dared to file a complaint? If I had not had the authorization of the governments, would I have risked the unique situation I had?"

Likewise, he wanted to draw attention to what he considers to be an obvious "political use" of his cause. In this sense, he has asked what will happen "when the PP governs" and the tables turn: "Will the PSOE commissions appear?"

In this context, he has indicated that, despite the fact that prosecutors Miguel Serrano and César de Rivas have painted him as "an abominable and money-hungry individual" who has used CENYT to line his pockets with private investigations using the police means to its scope, "everything is a lie".

In this regard, it has reiterated that CENYT billed because it was the only way to keep the "cover" alive, questioning whether there was another way to support "those coverage companies if the State did not finance them in any way."

On the contrary, he has claimed that it was his "family business group that always paid for everything", even if there are no signed receipts. "Are we so cynical as to ignore the 'offshore' structures that the CNI has for unspeakable payments"?, he has launched.

To this he has added that the way he would have made himself "truly gold" is by selling to the highest bidder the information he obtained from his dealings with terrorists and drug and arms traffickers, among others.

However, he has not hesitated to classify this cause as "general and prospective" because he has investigated "all his life, for more than 30 years, to see what can be found" under the alleged excuse of "causal findings" .

A "deep brokenness" after which he says that "it will be difficult to restore a personal and professional reputation, which was faultless until Sanz Roldán decided to apply the 'red code'".

Villarejo has defined himself as "an old and tired combatant" who has had "absolute and disinterested collaboration" with all intelligence services --civilian and military-- to question "who was the arsonist" in this fire.

Consequently, he has demanded that the court chaired by Ángela Murillo do Justice against the order "anything goes in order to eliminate a problematic element for the 'establishment'". If not, she has warned, "it breaks the rule of law."

In this way, after almost two hours, he has concluded his partial report, as co-defense lawyer, renouncing his right to the last word, which other defendants have used.