Extesorero denounces illegal financing of the PP Rajoy from … – El Universal (Venezuela)

MADRID The extesorero the Spanish Popular Party (PP) Luis Barcenas, accused in a corruption case splashing to the formation of Mariano Rajoy, denounced the existence of illegal financing in the party since 1982 and involved in it to the heads who had the PP since its foundation.

So explain his lawyers in the statement of defense filed today in court and released by Spanish media, in which the former treasurer tries to remove the thesis from the accusation that it was he who introduced the “economic systematic” in the PP using its capacity as manager of the party, DPA reported.

Since the PP have drained confidence in the words its former treasurer and insisted that the alleged “slush” was “Mr. Barcenas and not the PP” in the words of the spokesman of training in the Congress of Deputies, Rafael Hernando.

The so-called “case papers Bárcenas” investigating an alleged parallel accounting in the PP from handwritten notes of former treasurer where he allegedly collected payments black and undeclared donations.

judge of the Audiencia Nacional De la Mata, said a few days ago in order to commence the trial of this case that the “slush” “worked at least since 1990 and until 2008″.

Bárcenas now goes further and says that the system was established in 1982 with the founder of PP, Manuel Fraga, and lasted with other presidents of the match. Antonio Hernández Mancha, José María Aznar and Mariano Rajoy

The former treasurer, who worked 20 years for the party, argues that he only practiced “mere amanuensis” and that point was limited to receipts and payments in his famous notes issued in January 2012 by the newspaper ” El País “, which then caused a political earthquake in Spain.

Barcenas, who spent 19 months in prison between 2013 and 2015, also said that” the people themselves were responsible for the direction and management of the Political Party who were getting donations and decide what is employed “and specifically the head of the Spanish government was the one who received the most” important “.

According to the former treasurer, the rest of the management to achieve donations “Alvaro Lapuerta -predecesor the Barcenas in office and imputado-, although between 2008 and 2009 decreased donations from businessmen to PP and in that period the received and own Barcenas, who served as treasurer at that stage.

“All the expenses were covered thereby only expenses related to the activity of the party, (bonuses, pay consultants, 28 assists victims of terrorism, assistance to foundations and associations linked to Party, aid for campaign expenses of certain persons and finally for the payment of the remodeling of the headquarters of the Genoa street No 13), “says the statement released by the Spanish press.

” The general secretaries (training) were informed promptly of the amounts received and the name of the donor by the National Treasurer, “he continues.

The defense Barcenas also notes that he reported the information that criterion the two people “of which depended hierarchically” when he was party treasurer. Mariano Rajoy and the PP’s general secretary, Maria Dolores de Cospedal

The “Barcenas case” has been one of the main quebraderos the head PP in the last three years. Former party treasurer has repeatedly accused Rajoy and other leaders have known of B accounts and have charged bonuses in black.