Former commissioner José Manuel Villarejo has implicated the former president of the Government, Mariano Rajoy, and the Ministry of the Interior in the CNI's spying on the father-in-law of the then opposition leader, Pedro Sánchez. "If Rajoy had not given the 'ok', he would not have been investigated," he added.
In 2014, Sánchez's father-in-law was spied on to "politically kill Sánchez", as La Vanguardia revealed in a conversation recorded a decade ago between Villarejo and the former Secretary of State for Security, Francisco Martínez.
In an interview in El Món with RAC1, Villarejo stated that at that time "there was concern in the CNI about an emerging figure in politics who could have moral problems." "It was logical that it be analyzed," he added.
The former commissioner has reiterated that both Rajoy and Fernández Díaz, the then Minister of the Interior, were aware of the investigation process. "I had two direct lines of communication with the president of the government. One was interlocutors that they gave me and another because I knew the Secretary of State and the Minister of the Interior, who negotiated directly with Rajoy," he added.
Furthermore, the former commissioner has assured that it was the CNI who leaked the information about the case to the media: "I only checked and verified if what was already in the media was true or not."
Finally, regarding the complaint filed by the pseudo-union Clean Hands against Begoña Gómez, the President's wife, Villarejo has stated that "the Prosecutor's Office should have acted ex officio." "That he didn't do it is scandalous", he concluded.
