US EditionFormer Spanish PM Rajoy Dismisses ‘Absolutely False’ Claims in Surveillance Scandal Trial
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The former president comes out in defense of his Minister of the Interior and the rest of the defendants in support of his thesis that the Police did not attempt to sabotage the case of the PP Box B but sought a money from Bárcenas that had actually already appeared in SwitzerlandRajoy denies that he would destroy evidence from the PP Box B and assures the court that he does not remember messages with Bárcenas Mariano Rajoy opened on Thursday on…
Former government president Mariano Rajoy has said that it is "absolutely false" that former treasurer Luis Bárcenas was "pressed or threatened" by leaders of the Popular Party after the Gürtel and B accounting cases of the party broke out. In his testimony before the National High Court, the former executive leader has denied that there was "no political operation" to attempt to destroy evidence against the PP. Likewise, and despite the fact th…
With this setback that characterizes him, Mariano Rajoy once said about box B of the party he presided over: “We knew everything, except what appeared in the newspapers.” The Gürtel case took the leader of the PP politically ahead, but he has never had to assume judicial responsibilities for the illegal funding network that operated for years in the PP and that provided black bonuses to a large part of its leaders and served to pay for the refor…
Former Spanish PM Rajoy dismisses ‘absolutely false’ claims in surveillance scandal trial
Former Spanish Prime Minister, Mariano Rajoy, on Thursday firmly denied any involvement in an alleged covert operation to obtain compromising material from former People’s Party (PP) treasurer Luis Bárcenas, telling Spain’s National Court that no political plot ever existed. Testifying in Madrid in the so-called ‘Kitchen Case’ — the Operación Kitchen — the former right-wing leader rejected accusations that his government ordered the seizure or d…
Luis Bárcenas and Mariano Rajoy have given in the trial for Operation Kitchen two versions of the same facts totally incompatible. The treasurer of the PP has given concrete and compromising details and information about the PP Box B and the police operation to destroy evidence. Former President Rajoy has denied everything without nuances using the tone and expression "I don't know" with which he resisted the Gürtel scandal for years.
He did not respond to the morbazo that had provoked the statement of the former president of the government and the PP during the Kitchen plot in the trial that tries to elucidate the responsibility of the interior dome. But he did make it clear that, whatever they call him others, he is called Mariano Rajoy. So he did not clarify if he is known to be called the Asturian, as contemplated among the hypotheses of this cause, or M. Rajoy, as in tho…
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