Villarejo says that the botched Interior with Rajoy prevented linking Podemos with Venezuela
The retired commissioner José Manuel Villarejó described this Wednesday as “unpresentable and aberrant garbage” the PISA report (Pablo Iglesias Sociedad Anónima) prepared by the leadership of the Ministry of the Interior of the Government of Rajoy, on the financing that the founding group of Podemos had received from the governments of Venezuela and Iran.
According to Villarejo, the work was so botched that it ultimately served to benefit Podemos, since it acted as “a kind of vaccine so that Podemos' relations with Venezuela, the Cuban secret service and some ETA terrorists who were refugees in Venezuela.
The ex-commissioner, the main defendant in the Tandem operation, has spoken in this way to questions from the Podemos spokesman, Pablo Echenique, during the commission of investigation of the Kitchen case in the Congress of Deputies.
[Villarejo says that the 'Zaplana case' was “a CNI operation”, which “used the Civil Guard”]
Villarejo has assured that, during the Rajoy government, the PP dedicated itself to “empowering” Podemos, believing that this was how it divided the vote of the left to prevent the PSOE from managing to govern.
“I always told [the PP] not to be fooled,” Villarejo pointed out, “that you were not kittens but tiger cubs, and unfortunately he was right,” he added, addressing Echenique.
“The PISA report is so unpresentable and aberrational that any infant could have prepared it, it is rubbish,” he stressed, after completely disassociating himself from his elaborate. The dossier assured that Pablo Iglesias paid the employees of his program La Tuerka in black and analyzed the financing from the Government of Iran that the international television Hispan TV received, in which the founder of Podemos presented another of his political debate programs.
The retired commissioner has assured in Congress that he “never” participated in the “alleged theft” of the mobile phone of the former adviser to Pablo Iglesias in the European Parliament Dina Bousselham.
[Villarejo, about Ferreras: “He is a great professional, although now he denies me like all the Judases”]
“It seems Dina is what she is, a spiteful lady, I never participated in the alleged theft of her phone,” Villarejo pointed out, “it is the PSOE that provides me with the content of Dina's topic so that I can find some formula to weaken them you, that the PP was protecting you”.
The National Court has ordered Dina Bousselham to be prosecuted for false testimony, for the different versions she offered before Judge Manuel García-Castellón, all of them contradicting each other, about the theft of her mobile phone, whose memory card ended up in the hands of Villarejo .
Commissioner José Manuel Villarejo, this Wednesday upon his arrival at the Congress of Deputies.
The commissioner charged in Operation Tandem has assured that Podemos used the scandal of the Dina case to “improve the polls a little, just 15 days before the 2019 general elections.”
In his appearance before the Kitchen commission, Villarejo has once again played the mistake, has dedicated words of praise to all the parliamentary spokesmen, has responded evasively to some of their questions and has placed the National Intelligence Center (CNI) behind all the scandals registered in Spain during the last decades.
[Villarejo before the Commission: “I will vote for Sánchez because he is the bravest president I have ever met”]
He addressed a curious pearl to the Podemos spokesperson, Pablo Echenique: “As a communist, you know that in all states, in all governments, there is an Agit-pro department, which establishes the guidelines for what interested or not to agitate public opinion”.
José Manuel Villarejo has assured that the content of the thousands of hours of recording that the Police intervened in his house, at the moment of arresting him, reflects “the underground of Spanish society, the pure and simple reality”.
“Unfortunately for me”, he added, “what I have done in the last 40 years has been immortalized on behalf of the CNI, and probably with my consent”, through the hidden recordings that he made of politicians, businessmen and others members of the security services.
To questions from the ERC spokesman, Gabriel Rufián, Villarejo has denied that the CNI was aware of the preparations for the jihadist attack on Las Ramblas on August 17, 2017, and allowed the cell of the Ripoll imam to destabilize Catalonia a few months before the attack. coup of 1-O.
But he has assured that both the CNI and the Government of Rajoy ignored the notice that he himself had reflected in an informative note.
“In 2015 I had information that I captured, saying that there was an imam who had been in Belgium, I did not know the name,” he pointed out, “they said that he worked for the CNI, but in reality he worked for other interests: Morocco…”
That “informative note” that he addressed to his superiors in the Ministry of the Interior, “when it arrived they threw it in the trash”, added Villarejo. “When the attack takes place, I get angry, and there are a series of emails in which the CNI tells me: if you keep talking, we're going to go after you,” he recounted.
“I don't think the CNI ever had the intention” of allowing the attack, the commissioner clarified, “but they should have dedicated more efforts to prevent it.”
His appearance before the commission of inquiry has lasted for more than three hours. In it, Villarejo has lamented the procedural situation (there are still dozens of pieces of Operation Tandem open, pending trial) and has sentenced: “Fear rots inside and corrupts hearts, I am not afraid of anyone”.