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    <title><![CDATA[Ara in English - Manel Bustos]]></title>
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      <title><![CDATA[Manel Bustos breaks a decade of silence: "I wasn't involved in Operation Catalunya. Camacho was."]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[<p><img src="https://static1.ara.cat/clip/146ec74c-e2de-4f9f-b7d6-e059fe68858a_16-9-aspect-ratio_default_0.jpg" /></p><p>"I wasn't involved in Operation Catalunya. Mrs. Sánchez-Camacho was." Former Sabadell mayor Manel Bustos, convicted of corruption and still facing several trials in the Mercurio case, was blunt. After a decade of media silence, Bustos has granted an interview to <em>The morning of Catalunya Ràdio</em> In this case, she denied any involvement in the dirty war against the independence movement and directly pointed the finger at former leader of the Catalan People's Party (PP), Alícia Sánchez-Camacho. All this, after she and former PP secretary general and former minister María Dolores de Cospedal <a href="https://en.ara.cat/politics/new-audio-recordings-implicate-cospedal-in-the-catalonia-operation-before-her-appearance-in-congress_1_5325532.html" >They denied having participated in the dirty war against the independence movement,</a> Despite the audio recordings showing they discussed payments to informants of Commissioner José Manuel Villarejo. From the Moncloa Palace, the Minister of Justice, Félix Bolaños, described Cospedal's statement to the commission of inquiry on Monday as "infinitely hypocritical," but did not comment on whether the Prosecutor's Office should take action against her.</p>]]></description>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Martina Alcobendas]]></dc:creator>
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      <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 25 Mar 2025 09:50:37 +0000]]></pubDate>
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      <media:title><![CDATA[Former mayor of Sabadell, Manel Bustos, at the door of the Sabadell courts.]]></media:title>
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      <subtitle><![CDATA[The former mayor of Sabadell says Villarejo was "obsessed" with Mas and Forcadell and feels like a victim "of the sewers of the State and Catalonia."]]></subtitle>
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