The chief inspector of the UDEF, Manuel Morocho, has testified before the National Court that there was a police operation without judicial authorization against the former treasurer of the PP, Luis Bárcenas. He also confirmed that he received pressure to omit the name of Mariano Rajoy from the reports on the Bárcenas Papers, in addition to detecting maneuvers to obstruct the investigation of the party's parallel accounting.
The use of forensic analysis software to track deleted documents in the parallel accounting 🕵️
The investigation revealed that the original reports contained data mining tools to cross-reference financial transactions. However, certain key names were manually deleted from the digital files before their delivery to the court. Computer forensics experts had to recover previous versions of the documents using hash and metadata techniques, demonstrating that the deletion was not technical, but intentional, to hide direct links with the PP leadership.
The UDEF discovers that deleting Rajoy from a report is easier than deleting his political legacy 😅
Apparently, at the UDEF they had a more effective text editor than the one at PP headquarters: with a simple cut and paste, Rajoy disappeared from the papers as if by magic. Too bad the parallel accounting doesn't get erased as easily. Now investigators wonder if the next step will be to install an antivirus against corruption or if they prefer to simply format the hard drive of an entire party.