Eugenio Pino, who was the top operational chief of the National Police during the Government of Mariano Rajoy, acknowledged this Monday that he was aware of the espionage activated in 2013 against Luis Bárcenas and that he even “authorized” the use of the funds reserved for its execution; but he has defended its legality and insisted that it was exclusively an “intelligence operation” to locate the money that the former popular treasurer could have hidden abroad. Pino has thus deployed his defense strategy during , when he has rejected that, as the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office maintains, a plot was hatched to search for compromising information that the former PP accountant could keep from senior officials of the party to steal it and that it would not reach the investigators of the Gürtel casewhich then surrounded the formation.
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