Mariano Rajoy, nicknamed M.Rajoy: "My name is Mariano Rajoy, and then everyone calls me whatever they want."
The former Spanish president has declared on the tenth day of the Kitchen trial.
The trial of the Kitchen case has reached its peak this Thursday. Former Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy was summoned to testify in this trial and asked about the nicknames used about him — M.Rajoy, "El Asturiano" or "El Barbas" — he declared that he is Mariano Rajoy , "as everyone knows."
Rajoy has testified in the National High Court onthe tenth day of the Kitchen trial, a trial that judges the alleged para-police operation to spy on former PP treasurer Luis Bárcenas, allegedly organized by senior officials of the Ministry of the Interior at the time of Rajoy's first government when the Gürtel case and box B.
Villarejo's statement.
The interrogation has been initiated by PSOE lawyer Gloria de Pascual, asking the former president and former PP leader about the name that appeared in the papers of Bárcena and the nicknames that one of the defendants in this operation — former commissioner José Manuel Villarejo — used to refer to Rajoy, all based on statements made bythe Interior Investigator before the court.
Likewise, Mariano Rajoy has denied in the National High Court that the last page of the PP's B accounting was inserted into the breaker, in the presence of Luis Bárcenas himself, even though he claimed to have recorded it in an audio that was stolen from him in Operation Kitchen.
Rajoy has also claimedthat it is"absolutely false" that Bárcena handed him in an envelope an amount of cash from box B, as the latter stated on Monday, while denying any connection with the so-called "patriotic police."
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