NEW ROLES OF EX - TREASURER

New evidence of Barcenas, in the hands of the government UDEF not control



Luis Barcenas The turn gave his defense strategy leaves all the weight of judicial instruction Central Unit Fiscal and Economic Crime ( UDEF ) of Police. His troops will now have to study the two boxes and elpendrive with hundreds of documents the extesorero People's Party has put on the table Monday Judge Pablo Ruz , and then submit a report to the High Court arguing whether the new evidence supports the confession Barcenas or have any implications for the cause. Although the last word will the judge, the Government's immediate future is in the hands of the UDEF . And that's not good news for Mariano Rajoy and his team , who have suffered in recent months the strength of this police unit .

The most serious revelation that extesorero launched in his statement points directly to Rajoy and Maria Dolores de Cospedal . According Barcenas, he gave them 90,000 euros in envelopes between 2009 and 2010 . The extesorero have confessed that does not have the receive of these alleged payments , but the documents that had remained hidden until now could be enough to see if Rajoy , party Cospedal and opaque benefited from contributions of large companies. If it is also demonstrated that these payments were made in exchange for awards, PP leaders would face a bribery offense , punishable by up to six years in prison for the Penal Code .

The information network dismounted Correa

The UDEF reports will be key to determining the scope of the new documents . In fact, the central section of this police unit , composed of 300 specialists in financial and fiscal crimes renowned , is having a decisive role in the evolution of the Gürtel case since the first arrests occurred in February 2009 . From their offices reports have come out that have allowed dismantle the extensive business network that wove the alleged mastermind of the plot, Francisco Correa, to hide the proceeds of more than a decade of business had the help of PP leaders also dotted research.

The record shows that the strength of the UDEF not going to obey the orders of any superior, and that worries Moncloa , who has always maintained that the unit is controlled by agents close to the PSOE. At the government, Interior Minister Jorge Fernandez Diaz , tried to allay those fears standing in front of the Supreme Judicial Commissioner Jose Enrique Rodriguez Ulla , a man of his confidence. But fulminant Ulla was dismissed six months by the Director General of Police, Ignacio Cosidó , for not stopping an investigation of the UDEF on Marbella penthouse President of the Community of Madrid, Ignacio Gonzalez, a case being Courts abolished in Estepona . The man chosen to replace Ulla was Jose Garcia Losada , a commissioner with an impeccable track record that had held the same position between 2002 and 2004 , with Angel Acebes as interior minister .

The crisis of the second report on Mato

However, the arrival of Losada did not cause the change in expected Moncloa UDEF . The new Commissioner General of the Judicial Police has allowed the unit to continue to work independently , although in many sectors of the Government argue that the autonomy of the agents actually conceals a significant bias to the left, and give as an example the report UDEF that judge Ruz sent last February Gürtel relationship with Health Minister Ana Mato , and her ex-husband , Jesus Sepulveda, former mayor of Pozuelo de Alarcón.

The police document compiled data in a previous report of 2009 and listed the gifts Mato and his family have received from the plot of Correa. Responded to a judge's request , but the episode , which ended with the Minister on the ropes and forced to respond to calls to resign , nearly cost him his job at Cosidó , whom Mato and its surroundings accused of not having prevented the report saw the light . According to the minister, was full of innuendo free and old signs . Others blamed the government sectors Cosidó second , operating deputy director , Eugenio Pino , which is also indicated since.



New guidelines to UDEF

After that crisis, Interior ordered UDEF researchers to try to stick to your new reports proven facts and to avoid introducing them interpretations or subjective assessments , especially in those activities related to the case Gürtel .

Fernandez Diaz department also asked the UDEF to try speed up analysis of the documents that have not yet been reviewed by its agents. The most significant example is the piece called K , several boxes of information seized in corrupt plot log shed Correa network . Interior wants it as soon as possible to discuss the findings are submitted to the Court and to avoid uncontrolled a steady trickle of new incriminating evidence against members of the Government and the PP.

But orders of Interior were unsuccessful . In fact , reports have continued to appear on new gifts Gürtel funded . The latest leaked documents prove that Correa covered the cost of lighting and sound wedding Ana Aznar and Alejandro Agag . The data came from the piece K.

While waiting for the conclusions

The vertigo that this situation of chaos takes months causing the Government and the certainty that it would end Barcenas going to attack fueled the rumor a few weeks ago a new change in the leadership of the Commissioner General of the Judicial Police . The relay has not happened , but illustrating the excitement with which the Executive will await the opinion on the new role of a UDEF Barcenas can not dominate or predict.

If the police reports conclude that charged Cospedal Rajoy and the PP bonuses and was funded from donations illegal , the government would be little room for maneuver to avoid its collapse in Congress and in the courts. The UDEF has the floor. And history does not contribute to the tranquility of Moncloa.