Former commissioner José Manuel Villarejo and other members of the ‘patriotic police’ have denied any involvement in actions against the Pujol family on Tuesday, which they claim were organised by the government of Mariano Rajoy, including pressures on the Andorran banking sector and the disclosure of their accounts. Villarejo, former number two of the National Police Eugenio Pino, who was convicted in the case involving a ‘pendrive’ containing information stolen from the Pujol family, along with other members of the ‘patriotic police’, will testify as witnesses in the trial against the former Catalan president and his family. This statement is made at the request of the defence, which seeks to annul the case arguing that it is tainted by the dirty war of Operation Catalonia against the ‘procés’. During questioning, the witnesses, including Marcelino Martín Blas, former head of Internal Affairs of the National Police, have unanimously rejected their participation in an operation against the Pujol family. Furthermore, they have disassociated the government of Mariano Rajoy from their investigations, asserting that they did not receive any information regarding this matter. Villarejo has avoided confirming his testimony from last November before the Andorran judiciary, in which he implicated Rajoy’s government in Operation Catalonia, aimed at stopping the ‘procés’, as well as in pressuring the Banca Privada d’Andorra to provide information on the Pujol family and other pro-independence politicians.
Villarejo and the ‘patriotic police’ distance themselves from the dirty war against the Pujols with Rajoy.
