Bárcenas reveals all
Tuesday, July 16, 2013 @ 3:15 PM
EX-SENATOR and treasurer of the PP has confessed to being the author of handwritten accounts uncovered by a Spanish national daily newspaper showing wage top-ups in cash of over 2,000 euros a month were given to high-level party members, including the current president, over a period of 10 years.
Despite having always maintained that the documents, published by centre-left broadsheet El País, were not in his writing and volunteering to take a test to prove it, Luis Bárcenas (pictured left) appears to have decided he has nothing to lose and is now beginning to speak out.
Having recently confirmed that two lawyers linked to top-flight PP members had tried to strike a deal with him – if he confessed, his wife would go to jail, but if he remained silent they would arrange for justice minister Alberto Ruiz-Gallardón to be fired and Bárcenas' case archived – the accused now adds that the party tried to pay him to keep quiet
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