Villarejo on Sánchez-Camacho: "We will ensure that the separatists do not win an absolute majority."

MadridA week after Leire Díez handed over to the PSOE the pen drive With the information he has been gathering, several media outlets have begun publishing some of its content. The former Socialist activist revealed that it was documentation and audio recordings obtained as part of the alleged journalistic investigation he is conducting into the state's police sewers. The PSOE handed over the pen drive in the Prosecutor's Office Although, according to Díez, a large part of the files had already been processed for judicial review. However, among the audio recordings that have been revealed, there are also unpublished recordings that had not yet come to light.

Conspiracy to sink CiU at the polls

A new audio recording of Villarejo and Sánchez Camacho

Former National Police Commissioner José Manuel Villarejo is once again one of the protagonists of the audio recordings that have been published. pen drive of Díez. As published this Wednesday The Country, It contains a recording of a conversation from November 6, 2012, with the then leader of the Catalan People's Party (PP), Alicia Sánchez Camacho, in which they mention Operation Catalunya against the independence movement. "This war we're waging is so that these people [CiU] don't win an absolute majority," Villarejo stated just 19 days before the Catalan Parliament elections. The former commissioner advanced that starting on the 12th of that month, during the election campaign, they would leak alleged corruption scandals within CiU to the media.

"If they win an absolute majority, Spain will go to hell," Sánchez Camacho responded. Up until election day, November 25, information was published based on a supposed draft police report with alleged scandals related to Pujol, Artur Mas, and other Catalan ministers. CiU lost its absolute majority, and it was later shown that the released documentation had no basis whatsoever. The former president of the Generalitat Artur Mas has recently filed a complaint about this case, which other audios had already appeared.

"Kill" Prosecutor Grinda

Cospedal in a conversation with Villarejo

Many of the files on the USB drive are part of separate pieces about the retired commissioner's illicit activities. Among the recordings in the former Socialist militant's possession is one with a frequent interlocutor of Villarejo's, linked to the state's dirty war, María Dolores de Cospedal. According to an audio recording from the summer of 2017, published this Monday, The Country, the former PP leader and former Defense Minister states that the anti-corruption prosecutor José Grinda "must be killed."

Villarejo, already cornered at that point by judicial investigations, explains to Cospedal that PSOE representatives had conveyed to him the message that if he reported the PP for Operation Catalunya, his problems with the Prosecutor's Office could be resolved. "What they've told me is that, if you're willing to explain that Operation Catalunya is a PP operation and I don't know how many others, the Prosecutor's Office, what Grinda has against you, he'll take it away from you and all that." This is when Cospedal responds: "Grinda must be killed."

Spying on Gürtel police officers

The interlocutors themselves

Another audio published by RAC1 This Tuesday, it was revealed that Ignacio Cosidó, director of the Civil Guard and the National Police during Mariano Rajoy's administration, gave orders to the Internal Affairs Unit of the latter police force to spy on the officers investigating the Gürtel case, the corruption scandal that implicated the PP. This is taken from a conversation between the two interlocutors. "Cosidó knows that I know some of the instructions he gave, how to follow El Morocho and those involved in the Gürtel case through Internal Affairs," Villarejo says in Cospedal. The Morocho referred to in the March 2015 conversation is Manuel Morocho Tapia, the chief inspector of the Economic and Tax Crime Unit (UDEF) who led the investigation against the PP in this corruption case.

In the recording, Cospedal and Villarejo speak of the "Asturian," with whom the former commissioner claims to have a direct connection and who, according to RAC1, is supposedly referring to the former president of the Spanish government and the PP, Mariano Rajoy.

Accusations about Sánchez's entourage

The father-in-law's alleged brothels

Villarejo appears again in a third audio of the pen drive by Diez published by The Objective This Monday. In a May 2016 conversation with José Luis Olivera, then director of the Center for Intelligence against Terrorism and Organized Crime (Citco), the former commissioner speaks about the alleged prostitution businesses of Begoña Gómez's father, Pedro Sánchez's wife. Villarejo jokes about the fact that the then-Socialist candidate for the Spanish presidency proposed abolishing prostitution in his electoral platform: "And his father-in-law has brothels," he states.

The former commissioner also claims that Sánchez's wife was linked to one of the sauna companies for gay men and women and maintains that when Sánchez was unemployed between 2011 and 2012, he was "talking with a couple of his father-in-law's tax advisors."

Police Leaks

A document that the Prosecutor's Office discarded

Apart from audios, theAbc also advanced last Friday that the pen drive It contains a 261-page report from May 2014 by the National Police's Internal Affairs Department, called the Colombo Report, which uncovers an alleged network of agents, primarily from the UDEF (Uninstitutional Electoral Fund), who carried out targeted leaks. They allegedly used the Método 3 detective agency as an intermediary. The report was in the hands of the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office, which dismissed it.