The Driver of Bárcenas Declares that He only Reported to Villarejo the Surveillance of Operation Kitchen
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Sergio Ríos was captured by the police leadership to recover sensitive documents held by the former treasurer of the Popular Party
The trial for spying on the former PP treasurer Luis Bárcenas, known as 'Operation Kitchen', continues its course. The oral hearing began at the National High Court in April but the sessions are being held in a distance. This week there has been only one day of trial in which it has been possible to hear the interrogation as accused the ex-copier of Bárcenas, Sergio Ríos, and the commissioner Andrés Gómez Gordo, who years ago was security advise…
Luis Bárcenas's ex-coffer, Sergio Ríos, has admitted before the court that he is prosecuting "Operation Kitchen" -the alleged parapolice operative to extract "sensitive data" from the former PP treasurer - that he was "captured" as a confidant by retired former commissioner José Manuel Villarejo and that he was reporting information about the wife of the former PP treasurer. According to the court office, it was first Commissioner Enrique García…
Ríos has told the court of the National High Court that he was captured by Villarejo as a confidant of the National Police.
Commissioner Gómez Gordo assures that it was he who introduced Villarejo to the ex-copier of Bárcenas and recognizes payments
On Wednesday, the Audiencia Nacional resumed the trial of the Kitchen case, the alleged parapolice operation to spy on Luis Bárcenas between 2013 and 2015. And it does so with the statement as accused of Andrés Gómez Gordo, an inspector who was adviser to the government of María Dolores de Cospedal in Castilla-La Mancha, and the former driver of the former PP treasurer, Sergio Ríos. Continue reading
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