Rajoy and Cospedal will testify today at the Kitchen trial
Former Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy will testify today in the National High Court during the Kitchen trial. The Interior Ministry of the Rajoy Government allegedly used security forces to destroy evidence related to the People's Party's B accounting.
The statement, scheduled for 10 a.m., is expected to be uncomfortable for Rajoy, as almost nine years after his appearance in the Gürtel case, the former president has returned to court.
During the congressional inquiry committee, Rajoy denied that he knew former Commissioner José Manuel Villarejoand claimed that he had no knowledge of Operation Kitchen. However, the former treasurer of the Luis Bárcenas People's Party stated earlier this week that Villarejo is responsible for the plot.
Rajoy will appear as a witness, so heis forced to tell the truth . After the statement, it will be the turn of Maria Dolores de Cospedal.
In the case of Cospedal, the suspicions are based on recordings in which Villarejo is heard talking about various issues , but these recordings were left out of the investigation after Judge Manuel García Castellón ruled that they were out of context. This assessment was also accepted by the court, which refused to enter the trial on the grounds that the investigation could not be reproduced throughout the oral hearing.
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