Denial after denial. Francisco Martínez, one of the main defendants in the Kitchen case, who faces fifteen years in prison, has followed the planned script and denied any involvement in the espionage against Luis Bárcenas. "Did you order any kind of police operation or device [regarding the former PP treasurer]?" his lawyer, Pedro Colina, asked him. "No, never. I never ordered investigations into anything," he replied. It was in July 2013 when Jorge Fernández Díaz was informed that the Spanish police had a collaborator close to Bárcenas and, immediately afterward, Eugenio Pino confirmed to him that it was Sergio Ríos, Bárcenas's driver. Francisco Martínez has denied that he ordered his recruitment or that he was responsible for paying him with secret funds, but he admitted that he suspected it because the "main purpose" of secret funds is to pay collaborators. He also denied that the para-police operation underway was named "Kitchen" (kitchen in English, because the driver could reach the Bárcenas family's kitchen). "I never heard of it, it's a journalistic designation," he said. However, there is an audio recording of a conversation between him and José Manuel Villarejo in which both present Sergio Ríos as the "cook."