The former Minister of the Interior Jorge Fernández Díaz has made a move against his own party and has asked the National Court that the PP be considered a lucrative participant in the 'Operation Kitchen' case being investigated.
In a letter to which La Vanguardia has had access, the former minister and main investigator in the case - and for which he faces 15 years in prison - has joined the appeals raised by the PSOE and its former number 2, Francisco Martínez.
According to his defense, from the factual account of the accusation documents, "it is clear that the origin and epicenter of the allegedly criminal acts was espionage and the theft from the Bárcenas family of information supposedly detrimental to the interests of the PP, always in their benefit and using reserved funds for such purposes".
For this reason, he understands that in the event of a possible conviction for the use of funds reserved to pay for a "parapolice" operation for the benefit of the PP and the then President of the Government Mariano Rajoy, his party would have to assume part of the civil responsibility. In his opinion, "it is obvious, coherent and necessary to include the PP as a lucrative participant."
This appeal has been added to others against the order to open the oral trial issued by the judge of the National Court Manuel García Castellón, who has already concluded the investigation by having sufficient evidence to place Fernández Díaz on the dock. , his Secretary of State Francisco Martínez and the police leadership, among whom are the former police commissioner José Manuel Villarejo for ordering a "parapolice" device to steal sensitive data from Bárcenas about box b of the PP that could affect the then president of the Government Mariano Rajoy.
In this matter, the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office has clashed with the judge in several aspects, among them in the latter's refusal to take the general secretary of the PP at the time, María Dolores de Cospedal, to trial.
After the order to open the oral trial, the inclusion of the crime of kidnapping requested by the Bárcenas family has also been appealed, which has considered that the story of the false priest who entered the house of the former treasurer of the PP and detained his wife and son was orchestrated by Interior inside 'Operation Kitchen'.
