Operation Kitchen: Bárcenas asks for 41 years in prison for Fernández Díaz for ordering “harass him” and “spy on him”

They followed him and his entourage; he felt harassed in jail; they staged a false kidnapping of his wife and his son; and they paid his driver to steal information from him. These are the accusations that Luis Bárcenas makes to those responsible for the Kitchen before Judge García Castellón. For this “unjustified harassment”, the former treasurer of the PP Luis Bárcenas asks for 41 years in prison for Jorge Fernández Díaz, Francisco Martínez, José Manuel Villarejo, Enrique Castaño, or Eugenio Pino. This is how it appears in the indictment for the operation that, according to the judge, was set up by Fernández Díaz’s Ministry of the Interior to steal documents that could harm the Popular Party or its leaders, including Mariano Rajoy, president of the party and of the Government at that time. moment. In total there are 11 defendants. At the top, former Minister Fernández Díaz, accused of giving the orders through his Secretary of State, Francisco Martínez. Directing the operation, José Manuel Villarejo, and with him members of the so-called “Patriotic Police”, such as Eugenio Pino. At the bottom of the ranking, Sergio Ríos Esgueva. Everything was done with public means and charged to reserved funds, according to the investigation. Sergio, the driver of Bárcenas who carried out the most direct espionage, has a minor prison request, 33 years. That is so, because Ríos, who did not hold public office, is not accused of some crimes such as illicit association. Of course, an aggravating circumstance is requested for breach of trust. The aggravating circumstance that Bárcenas attributes to the rest is that of “prevalence of his public nature.” If the court accepts them, prison sentences can even be increased. In this case, Bárcenas is the victim and the accusation. Her lawyer, Marta Giménez Cassina, has presented her indictment this Tuesday. It is about 48 pages to which NIUS has accessed and in which all the episodes of the framework against which he was manager and treasurer of the PP and who carried out “extra-accounting accounting” for years, the so-called Bárcenas papers, are described. The monitoring suffered by the former treasurer of the PP, his family or his lawyers, and above all, the pressures that he denounces having experienced while he was in provisional prison for the Gürtel case make up the harassment denounced by him in the indictment. In the account of the events and in the request for sentences, the attempted kidnapping suffered by the wife, the son and the houseworker of the Bárcenas, at the hands of the false priest Enrique Olivares, also has a leading role. That episode alone adds up to 23 years in prison on the list of petitions: 18 for inducing kidnapping; six months induce the false priest to break into a dwelling; a year and a half for inducing illegal possession of weapons; and three years for injuries. Bárcenas accuses the Interior of including him in a Special Follow-up Inmate File Luis Bárcenas has spoken on different occasions of unjustified searches; He has said that they forced him to meet his lawyers in a room where there were microphones. But what was not known until now is that during his 19-month stay in prison, between June 2013 and January 2015, he was included in the FIES (Special Monitoring Inmate File). This is a type of control that includes increased surveillance for the inmate. It was created for prisoners of terrorist gangs and has five degrees. His lawyer defends in the brief that he did not meet any of the requirements of the established degrees and that therefore his enrollment was “irregular”: Especially conflictive and dangerous Organized crime Armed gangs State security forces and prison officials Inmates linked to international crime. The letter explains that this classification was established by the General Directorate of Penitentiary Institutions, dependent on the Ministry of the Interior, then in the hands of Jorge Fernández Díaz. By being so classified, the prison had permission to access his communications, reading material, and his every move could be noted. This classification can also lead to a ban on participating in workshops, jobs or courses, in addition to frequent searches in cells, strict rules on transfers, etc. On January 24, 2015, Bárcenas left the Soto del Real prison, but after confirming the sentences for the Gürtel case in the Supreme Court, in May 2018, he returned to it. Since then, the control measures that he had in the first period have not been repeated, the letter states. On the list of witnesses proposed by Bárcenas, Dolores de Cospedal, who came to testify before the judge but was exonerated by García Castellón. The investigations of the magistrate were directed to know if she, as general secretary of the PP, had made the order to Villarejo.