He testified this Tuesday as a witness about the alleged payments with funds reserved for the , the alleged parapolice plot to spy on the former treasurer of the PP Luis Bárcenas. Pérez de los Cobos, who at the time this operation was carried out was responsible for the control of said funds in the Ministry of the Interior, has ruled out anomalies: “I never detected any irregularity.”
According to what the colonel said during the twelfth session of the trial being held at the National Court, his role was that of “cashier”, which entails “documentary control” but does not imply “any type of control regarding the ultimate purpose” for which the reserved funds are intended. However, he has stated that he “never” perceived irregularities and has stressed that he used the control powers established by law during the time in which the Kitchen was developed.
Pérez de los Cobos’ statement comes after Soraya Sáenz de Santamaría, who was vice president of the Government during the deployment of the espionage operation against the former treasurer Luis Bárcenas; and Javier Arenas, former general secretary of the PP. As the accusations and defenses already anticipated, none of them left the . “I have no evidence of that operation during my time in the Government,” stressed the person who was the right-hand man of the Chief Executive from 2011 to 2018.
