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| De Cospedal, Bárcenas and Villarejo |
The number of damaging
recordings from the imprisoned ex-commissioner José Villarejo (who apparently
worked in his spare time as a kind of cross between a private investigator and
a mole within his own police force) continues. ‘...The tapes from 2009 reveal
that the policeman and Ignacio López del Hierro, husband of the former
secretary general of the PP, María Dolores de Cospedal, tried to stop
investigations into corruption against the Popular Party and that the former
defence minister herself was aware of these efforts...’. The story
is at ElDiario.es. ‘Are you prepared
to do some particular work for us?’ Cospedal and her husband ask Villarejo in a
private meeting in the Partido Popular building in the Calle Génova, Madrid. El Mundo quotes the Moncloa political site here.
El Español says
that one conversation was about heaping all the blame on Bárcenas: ‘Cospedal
and Villarejo agreed that Bárcenas would be Gürtel's only culprit: "If
it's had it, then put it in the dustbin. As long as all the sh*t lands on him,
it reaches no one else," the former commissioner told the secretary
general of the PP in her office in Genoa. A shaken Cospedal told the RTVE on Tuesday that
‘the meetings made no difference in the Gürtel Investigation’.
From VozPópuli: ‘The former commissioner informed the former secretary
general (Cospedal) of his ideological preferences: "Whenever your lot govern,
I have never earned any money, but whenever the PSOE is in charge, since they
are such a disaster, they ask me to do all kind of things" (here).
The problem for Pablo Casado in this instance is that Cospedal gave her
support to his candidacy for leader of the party last July and, indeed, he
is ‘now rather quiet for once’ (here).
Speculation
exists that the ‘Moncloa’ news-site could be connected in some way to the
ex-commissioner himself, in prison since last November. As the political world
grits its collective teeth at the thought of even more tapes to be released,
the ‘Cospedal’ recordings have now been passed to the National High Court (here).
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