The PP extesorero Luis Barcenas has intensified in recent days the pressure on his former party, after seven months in prison. Barcenas was delivered to the National Court judge Pablo Ruz new documentation certifying that his predecessor, ÃÅlvaro Lapuerta supposedly managed cash fund b party. Specifically, the magistrate Barcenas has referred a number of bank statements showing that Lapuerta acquired in 2004 a total of 1,270 shares of Liberty Digital totaling 139,700 euros. This purchase securities of conservative media group communication is contained in exactly parallel accounting Barcenas, published by El Pais on 31 January.
The latest revelation of Barcenas, conducted by the SER, has at least as many policy implications as court. The criminality of Lapuerta is not new: the ancestor of Barcenas is already charged in the investigation of Judge Ruz on accounting b PP. What makes Barcenas is now further bolster their alleged involvement in the management of opaque backgrounds.
However, the gesture of the former head of finance is a thinly veiled message to his former party that retains most incriminating documents and who is willing to make them public. Barcenas sent the December 31, 2013 a letter to his lawyer, Javier Gomez de Liano, which begged the judge to deliver a series of documents Ruz " for incorporation " to what he calls "the separate piece of paper People's Party ". With this formula, Bárcenas transfers the responsibility for the safe conservative ba training. For indication Barcenas, these documents were going to be delivered to the lawyer in his office by a third party.
The handwritten letter Bárcenas Gomez de Liano supposedly communication between lawyer and client of little or no value for research and protected by professional secrecy, has been submitted with the bank documents by counsel, Judge Ruz. This has added to the list on accounting b PP. The letter has come to transcend the media, which would not have happened if Gomez de Liano had not attached to the bank statements he gave to the magistrate at the direction of his client.
The content of the letter is for internal consumption. In it relates Bárcenas received a visit in Soto del Real prison Advocate Lapuerta, Javier Iglesias, " requested by the Popular Party." Depending on the version of Barcenas in his letter, in the meeting, which was held " in a room without partition, obviously with the permission of Corrections," Iglesias posed the request Lapuerta that " maintained dignity " regarding " certain information that were appearing in the press " and affecting Lapuerta " personally ".
" Well, seven months later still maintain the same behavior worthy of all my life," Barcenas defends. The extesorero adds that he hopes Lapuerta, "finally be on moral high ground " that he always enjoyed and "detail the reality of facts from which, moreover, the heads are the highest level of which he directly depended as Treasurer of the People's Party between 1993 and 2008, years in which he always turned the instructions received, "concludes extesorero Popular Party. Lapuerta, 86 and with poor health, refused to testify on his last appearance before Judge Ruz, on 4 November, citing " memory problems."
Barcenas dated his letter to Gomez de Liano December 31, just 11 days after the High Court rejected a third time his provisional persists to understand that the risk of leakage and destruction of evidence released. The fact that the extesorero be kept by and dispense relevant information for research agrees with the Judge Ruz and judges of the Fourth Criminal Section, which has appealed Bárcenas seeking their release, when they argue that the extesorero is not cooperating with the investigation but " just the opposite ".
On 15 July, just two weeks after entering in custody, admitted to Ruz Bárcenas authoring handwritten accounting includes 7.5 million euros paid by the PP black big business between 1990 and 2008 and the use of this money to meet ordinary expenses of the party and give bonuses to its top management. That same day, the magistrate gave extesorero nine folders with documents stored in his 20 years in charge of the accounts for maintenance training. These portfolios contain, in addition to original papers published by this newspaper, you receive photocopies of checks and numerous handwritten annotations. Among the latter, pages with " anonymous " donations of construction, requests or notes in black money given to party positions.
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