Madrid (EFE) a plot company in 2004.
One day after his statement, Camps presented a brief before the court that is trying him for crimes of prevarication and fraud in which he requested that he deduce testimony from this witness “for the purpose of filing a lawsuit against her for crime and false testimony.”
A request that this Wednesday the magistrates have dismissed in an order, “without prejudice to its assessment in the sentence that is handed down at the time.”
The statement with which the former regional president disagrees was given by the secretary of the general director of Institutional Promotion of the Generalitat, an organization that awarded the Gürtel plot some of the contracts that focus the trial of this branch of the macro-cause.
A contract that “was given to them”
To questions from the Prosecutor’s Office, the witness ratified the statement she gave in 2014, in which she slipped that the contract for the preparation of a 2004 communication guide “was given to them” and that it was “vox populi” that those responsible for the Orange Market company, among them Álvaro Pérez, El Bigotes, “meeted at higher levels”, of “presidency” or “consellers”.
The passage of time – almost 20 years after that award – made this official not remember “exactly” what she declared, although she indicated that if she said it at that time, “it was like that”, and asked why it came to them “given ” that contract, he pointed out: “because you had to contract with them and you had to contract with them”.
He also confirmed what he said then about that in his “understanding” the “pressures” did not come from the PP, but from the president – “yes, from Camps, from Francisco Camps,” he said.
Especially tense was the questioning of former President Camps’ lawyer, whom the court even asked to lower his tone. The lawyer asked the witness if she knew everything that was declared by “the rúnrún”, by “what sounds out there”. “In the end that’s the truth,” she replied.
