The patriotic police of the former Minister of the Interior Jorge Fernández Díaz paid a French police officer with reserved funds to obtain the supposed bank account of the then mayor of Barcelona Xavier Trias in Andorra, which turned out to be false, but ended up being published in El Mundo a few days after the consultation. of 9-N of 2014, as revealed this Wednesday by RAC1.
As explained by the Godó Group chain, in 2014, commissioner Enrique García Castaño, one of the key commissioners in those years in the Ministry of the Interior, contacted a contact from the French customs surveillance service to request bank information about sovereign leaders.
The agent, a senior officer in the body, had sources in the Andorran financial system and had access to the Falciani list. García Castaño, who was then head of the Central Operational Support Unit of the National Police, had met the French confidant years before, because they had coincided in the fight against terrorism in the French Basque Country, and they were in regular contact.
Weeks after the request, the French agent informed his Spanish colleague that he had information about a Xavier Trias account in Andorra. It was a hoax, but García Castaño did not verify it and transferred it to Eugenio Pino, then Deputy Director of Operations (DAO) of the Police, and José Ángel Fuentes Gago, his cabinet director.
Several sources consulted by RAC1 point out that, after giving credibility to the information, the patriotic police paid 25,000 euros from funds reserved for the informant. When the patriotic police discovered that the information was false, they sent García Castaño, Fuentes Gago and the then commissioner José Manuel Villarejo to France on an official plane. The objective was to speak with the confidant to clear up the misunderstanding, but they did not recover the money they had been paid.
