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Source: Diario Público
Rajoy says he has no memory of Bárcenas's break-up message from March 14, 2013
The Editor, based on what Podemos / Mariano Rajoy, former President of Spain said
Podemos's attorney confronted Rajoy with Bárcenas's final message, timestamped 8:06 p.m. on March 14, 2013 (folio 1085), in which Bárcenas declared: "I no longer have any commitment to you or to the party." Rajoy testified that the message "doesn't ring a bell" given that it dates back more than 13 years. His admission that his relationship with Bárcenas changed once he learned of the €48 million held in Switzerland establishes a precise timeline that stands in stark contrast to his denials of the documented prior contact.
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Rajoy says he has no memory of Bárcenas message about court-held documents from March 5, 2013
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The Socialist Party's attorney presented a message from Bárcenas to Rajoy dated March 5, 2013 at 4:59 p.m. (volume four, folios 1084–1085, PDF 113) in which Bárcenas asked to speak with "Javier" about documents that had been placed under criminal proceedings at Plaza Castilla and were pending a decision. Rajoy testified that he neither remembered nor could identify the message, stating that he had not sent it himself. The identity of "Javier" and the nature of the documents Bárcenas refers to remained unresolved in the testimony, making them the central point of the documentary dispute.
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Rajoy acknowledges police operation targeting Bárcenas's assets but says he only learned of it in 2021
The Editor, based on what Defense for José Manuel Villarejo / Mariano Rajoy, former President of Spain said
When questioned by Villarejo's defense, Rajoy denied having sought updates — through third parties, including Cospedal's wife — on a DAO intelligence investigation into foreign bank accounts held by Bárcenas and Rosalía Iglesias. Rajoy said he first learned of the police operation in 2021 at Congress, when an officer testified that its primary objective was Bárcenas's money and the identification of his front men, not documents belonging to third parties. The gap between the period under investigation (2013–2018) and the moment Rajoy claims to have become aware of it (2021) is the central contradiction that prosecutors will need to press during questioning of senior DAO officers.
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Rajoy says he is unaware of Fernández Díaz's statement on who ordered Operation Kitchen
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The Socialist Party's attorney confronted Rajoy with a statement attributed to Jorge Fernández Díaz in which the former Interior Minister, after denying the existence of Operation Kitchen, allegedly said that an operation of that scale could only have been ordered by the president. Rajoy replied that he had no knowledge of any such statement and referred the attorney to ask Fernández Díaz directly. The authenticity and precise context of the statement attributed to Fernández Díaz were not established through documentary evidence during the exchange, leaving unresolved whether a conflict of testimony exists between the two former ministers before the court.
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Rajoy says he has no memory of a documented phone call to Bárcenas on March 6, 2013
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The Socialist Party's attorney presented a message from Bárcenas to Rajoy dated March 6, 2013 at 10:24 a.m. in which Bárcenas confirmed he had seen Rajoy's missed call too late and had been unable to speak with him. Rajoy testified that he had "not the faintest idea" that either the message or the referenced call had taken place. The message, in which Bárcenas is the passive recipient of a contact initiative attributed to Rajoy, supports the prosecution's theory that it was Rajoy who maintained active communication during those days — a claim Rajoy can neither refute nor confirm, given that he declares a complete absence of memory.
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