The retired commissioner and in preventive detention José Manuel Villarejo, the main defendant in the Tandem case, wrote in his personal diary on May 9, 2016 that he had received the notice that the then director of the CNI Félix Sanz Roldán, whom he calls ‘Troll’, he had met with several members of the Supreme Court and the National Court to give him “cane”.
He also points out that his source does not know how to tell him what those meetings were about, “nothing in particular”, but that same day he had a conversation with ‘Oli’ (the former head of the UDEF José Luis Olivera) to warn him of “Troll behavior”: “He meets judges to speak ill of me”.
These are just two of the annotations that the main Tándem defendant left written black on white in his diary, to which Europa Press has had access, throughout the years prior to his arrest in November 2017. In it you can observe the day-to-day of the commissioner, who wrote down all the contacts, the calls he made and received and the impressions he had of the various affairs he handled.
Among the people who maintained a relationship with him, more or less close or assiduous, was the then general secretary of the PP, María Dolores de Cospedal. Thus, on the agenda he notes that on November 3, 2016 – one day before Cospedal takes office as Defense Minister of the second Government of Mariano Rajoy – he receives a reply by SMS of a previous message that he had sent him.
“Answer my SMS with another very affectionate one. I let you know about the coffee with ILH”, leaves the commissioner pointed out, who with that ‘ILH’ refers to the political husband Ignacio López del Hierro, with whom, according to recordings that work in the summary, he meets on several occasions.
But the agenda not only points to contacts with the police leadership, with the then Minister of the Interior or with the former Secretary of State for Security Francisco Martínez – whom he calls Chisco – but also He also leaves snippets of his personal life, errands to run or how his retirement is going, which already in May 2016 was preparing. In fact, on May 10, he indicates that he has filled out the application for retirement in the Deputy Directorate of Operations (DAO) and that he is pending the account number “and the Cuchi DNI.”
Messages with Corinnna
His contacts also include the king’s ex-lover, Corinna Larsen, with whom he met in London in January 2015 and with whom he maintains open communication because on January 15, 2017 a note referring to this appears in his agenda: “He answers me thank you same to you “. A day later, he refers to the German-born businesswoman: “Answer my offer of pending issues. Wonderful. Thank you. You too !!”.
Among the contacts noted in the weeks prior to his arrest in early November 2017 appear in his notebooks meetings with journalists and also with businessmen splattered by scandals investigated in the National Court, as Adrián de la Joya, investigated in the case of alleged corruption of the PP of Madrid ‘Lezo’ and also in the piece ‘Pit’ of the summary ‘Tándem’, to stop the extradition to Guatemala of the shipping company Ángel Pérez- Maura.
The diary reflects fluid encounters between the two and almost daily calls in some months of 2016 and 2017, in which both talk about his business and notes that reflect the state of mind of the businessman regarding the projects he undertook, with frequent trips abroad. As an example, in May 2016 this entry appears “he proposes to travel to Malaga in his plane for the appointment with his friend the Andorran.
‘Goldfinger’
Among his various notes, refers to the ‘Operation Goldfinger’, on the urban redevelopment of the plot where Sean Connery’s house was located in Marbella, and that splashed the former mayor Julián Muñoz. Faced with the registration of a law firm that should have been among Villarejo’s clients, he speaks of “spurious reasons.” Specifically, it indicates a “tax collection effort” to “distort what is happening in this country.”
Mentions about the 2008 economic crisis are recurrent. Thus, towards May 2010 and in relation to the ‘Gran Scala’ project, which aspired to turn Los Monegros into a giant casino, Villarejo highlights that “Spain begins to make the first decisions to get out of the crisis”, highlighting that “Spain is preparing to get out of the crisis with another model.”
Between note and note flow also his projects, for which some thirty separate pieces have been opened to him in the Central Court of Instruction number 6, in particular it sometimes refers to the case of the dermatologist Elisa Pinto, whom he allegedly stabbed on behalf of the businessman Javier López Madrid, and of whom he says in May 2016 that he has entered a portal of Claudio Coello street, in Madrid.
Repsol, Caixabank and Pemex
In his diary he also wrote down details of the espionage orders that had been made and that they are being investigated in the National Court. One of them was the one made in 2011 by Repsol and Caixabank to prevent Sacyr, after reaching an agreement with Pemex, from taking control of the energy company Board of Directors.
As it appears in the annotations of April 2013, Villarejo collected data on how the Singapore fund Temasek would enter Repsol’s board of directors in May 2013, after the energy company sold “5 percent of the capital stock”, as well as the candidates from Sacyr and the Asian fund for external proprietary director. These annotations mention Emilio Lozoya, who was president of the Mexican oil company Pemex since November 2012, and the family relationship with former Mexican presidents Carlos Salina Gortari and Enrique Peña Nieto.
Another of the orders was the one made by the owner of the luxury urbanization ‘La Finca’, Susana García-Cereceda, who has admitted, after reaching an agreement in accordance with the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office, that in 2013 he hired Villarejo to spy on his family in the dispute over his father’s inheritance.
Thus, the retired commissioner wrote down data on this project that he called ‘Land’ – pending trial -, noting the names of “Yolanda”, which could refer to the sister of the accused; “Ostos”, pair of this one; or “Torres”, alluding to the architect Joaquín Torres. All this together with other notes, such as ‘Save me Deluxe’, “relationship with the girl’s boyfriend” or journalistic information.
He also indicated in his notebook data on the ‘Pin project’, a commission that BBVA would have made to discredit the president of the Ausbanc consumer association, Luis Pineda, who is precisely being tried by the National Court for extortion.
“Pineda in his career to get brands, he has done with Clean Hands“;” in his magazine he praises Santander “; or” Pineda enters the Bankia procedure to access information “, are some of the phrases that appear on the agenda, which also refer to another work carried out by Villarejo for BBVA: the attempt to stop Sacyr’s “assault” on the 2004 bank.
In October 2010, he noted that he received an email from Ron Aledo, who defines himself as an “expert in defense, intelligence and Latin American affairs” who has worked for several US agencies, in which he offers to work also in the company of Villarejo, Cenyt, because he plans to move to Madrid.
Aledo, a retired US Army captain, former FBI investigator, is interested in continuing his “counterintelligence” work and “negotiating with the military.”
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