The Internal Affairs inspector who has investigated former commissioner José Manuel Villarejo has admitted his “unique” status within the Police, but has disassociated him from the alleged private businesses for which he is being judged and which reported more than half a million euros to his “personal and family assets”.
The trial of the Tándem case against Villarejo and thirty other accused has reached its 20th day this Wednesday at the National Court, where it has continued declaring for the fourth day the inspector who led the police investigation.
Once again, the inspector has unlinked the three alleged espionage projects that are judged –Iron, Land and Painter– Of the work that Villarejo carried out within the Police, where he has recognized that he had a “unique” status.
Although he has reiterated not having found “any indication or data” that Villarejo was an undercover agent, he has not doubted that different identities were assigned to him for the “management of human sources”, That was his role in the Police.
But at all times and given the insistence of the defense in trying to prove that Villarejo’s companies were a cover for his alleged official operations, The inspector has claimed not to have seen the use of the Cenyt company, key in the case, and others linked to it “beyond” that “to assume the orders” of its clients.
Through this “private activity” is how the “personal, family” and “corporate” assets of Villarejo “grows and is nourished”, explained the inspector, who has raised the figure he received from the projects that are prosecuted to 660,000 euros, after stating that they have not found any inflows or outflows of money from the accounts of the network towards the Administration.
Villarejo’s defensewhose interrogation has lasted more than seven hours between yesterday and today, has tried with his questions to dismantle the accusation of bribery that weighs on him and prove that he was authorized by the State to use his companies as a cover for his official operations.
The inspector has not “questioned” that “some police officers” knew the Villarejo offices, but he has indicated that he cannot know “reliably” the level of detail they had about the activities he carried out “exactly”.
And, while the recordings of the conversations with former deputy operational directors of the Police are still under investigation, he has firmly stated that he has not found anything that affirms that Eugenio Pino, who held that position with former minister Jorge Fernández Díaz and who is imputed in another piece“had knowledge” of the projects being prosecuted.
The witness has been surprised by the alleged compatibility report prepared in 2015 by a subordinate of Pino – also accused in another piece – about the Villarejo companies because “didn’t match reality” since it said that their purpose was “the administration of personal and family assets”, when a “mere consultation” would have revealed that they are service companies.
Questioned in turn about his role in the records, the inspector recalled that, in order to verify the alleged “profit-oriented behavior of the investigated conduct”, two homes in Villarejo were intervened about €200,000 in cashjewelry and watches and “five 100-gram gold ingots,” among others “value effects”.
He has also rejected that there is evidence that the journalist Ana Rosa Quintana asked Villarejo for help for one of the espionage projects, as the former commissioner maintains, whose defense has once again requested the declassification of reserved material to try to confirm his thesis that he acted for the benefit of the state.