The PSOE calls for Cospedal to be charged with Operation Catalunya.

MadridFirst legal actions following the new revelations about Operation Catalunya. The PSOE, which is acting as the private prosecutor in the Tandem macro-case concerning everything surrounding the illegal practices of former commissioner José Manuel Villarejo, filed a brief with the National Court on April 11—advanced by The Country and to which ARA has had access – in which he demands that the former number 2 of the PP, María Dolores de Cospedal, be charged. audios published on RAC1 In which the retired police officer and the former Minister of Defense converse on September 15, 2014, about how they "changed history" with their maneuvers. "From 62 to 50. I think it was positive," said Villarejo, referring to the number of seats Convergència i Unió won in the 2012 elections.

Specifically, the PSOE's legal team is focusing on the possible diversion of funds through the public company Enresa to pay a debt owed to Villarejo. "Look, maybe the one you told me about is a good way. I'll talk to Paco Gil Ortega and tell him you'll call him, he's the president of the company. I won't forget that. I will, okay? Okay?" Cospedal told the former commissioner. It is unknown whether any transaction was finalized, but the former commissioner's notes in his diary corroborate that the day after the conversation with the former secretary general of the PP, he obtained Gil Ortega's phone number and arranged a meeting with him. According to the PSOE, these events could "constitute preparatory acts for criminal acts by compromising funds from a public company in exchange for paramilitary work by an active commissioner."

These audio recordings were published on March 24, the same day that Cospedal appeared in the investigation commission on the Catalunya operation in Congress. The former PP leader dismissed any credibility of the talks and prompted the Plurinational majority groups to consider summoning her again and, furthermore, to begin thinking about forwarding the findings of the proceedings to the Prosecutor's Office. However, in parallel, the PSOE has already moved to court. RAC1 also published other audio recordings between Cospedal and Villarejo that reinforced the connection between the former PP's second-in-command. with the Kitchen plot, which is investigating the maneuvers of the Ministry of the Interior and the leadership of the National Police to extract documentation on corruption within the conservative party from former PP treasurer Luis Bárcenas. Cospedal and her ex-husband, Ignacio López del Hierro, were once indicted in this case, but Judge Manuel García-Castellón ultimately exonerated them.

The Socialists insist in their brief to the Investigative Court Number 6 of the National Court that Cospedal, López del Hierro, and Villarejo be given statements, but also that they take the initiative to investigate the use of the sewers by Mariano Rajoy's government between 201 and 2020. Police investigations that are still secret under the Official Secrets Act. Specifically, everything surrounding Operation Catalunya has been taboo for the judge who until a few months ago was investigating the case, García-Castellón, now retired.