Camps’ secretary deploys a closed defense of her boss in the Gürtel trial

Francisco Camps’ secretary, Susana Fayos, has deployed a close defense of her boss during the trial being held against him in the National Court, which resumed this Tuesday after a two-month break. The worker, who continues under the orders of the former leader of the PP as an advisor to the office of the former Valencian president, has supported the thesis of the main accused in the oral hearing and has denied that Camps maintained a regular relationship with Álvaro Pérez, El Bigotes, who was the man of the Gürtel plot in the community. As the witness has repeated, who has incurred some contradiction, she never saw the two meet, she never heard them speak, and Pérez’s name was never even recorded in the president’s agenda.

Fayos has been on the side of Camps for two decades. According to her own account, she became his private secretary in July 2003, after the popular man’s arrival to the Presidency of the Generalitat. She accompanied him throughout her entire career at the head of the Government. And, after the resignation of the chief executive in 2011, she immediately took the position of “advisor” in the former president’s office. However, when asked by Camps’ lawyer, she wanted to emphasize that she does not maintain a “friendly relationship” with her boss.

The defense of the former leader of the PP has focused a good part of its issues on trying to demonstrate that Camps did not maintain a “close relationship” with El Bigotes, as the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office and the popular accusation point out. They claim that the president, because of this, opened the doors of the Generalitat to the Gürtel plot and favored them in the granting of contracts. A thesis that the popular man denied in his interrogation and that his lawyer is now trying to reinforce with the testimony of his secretary.

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Among her duties, Fayos has reported that she managed Camps’ phone calls and helped him so that he could comply with his daily agenda, to which she had access. In all that time, she has assured that she never had “knowledge” of Álvaro Pérez, and that she never saw them meet at the Palau de la Generalitat.

—Was Mr. Ávaro Pérez noted in that public and personal agenda? —the former president’s lawyer asked him.

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-No. When the first news began to appear in the press, in 2008, 2009… I began to consult all my databases. And I had no reference to this man, although I had his phone number in my contact book. I understand that he had that number as a reference to the party (El Bigotes organized the events of the Valencian PP).

But later, when asked by the public prosecution, the secretary stated that she had indeed recorded that Camps attended El Bigotes’s wedding. “It was explicit because I noted that the president had attended the banquet,” she said.

Fayos has also denied that Camps met with Ricardo Costa, then general secretary of the Valencian PP, in the Palau: “There were no party meetings in the Presidency.” The defense thus seeks to discredit Costa’s word, who told the court that the chief executive and El Bigotes maintained a close relationship; and that he himself even ate on several occasions at the Palau with the two of them: “I saw the personal relationship they had. Camps and Pérez told me so. I have eaten with them at the Palau de la Generalitat, and they talked about family gatherings (…) Pérez could ask Camps any question. “He didn’t need me,” declared Camps’ right-hand man.

An expert does not want to testify

For its part, before beginning the interrogations this Tuesday, the court has rejected the request of Jesús Emilio Torrejón Puchol, general director of the General Attorney’s Office of the Generalitat in the Camps stage, not to appear at the trial on the 25th. of September. “The court understands that he does not have the legal capacity to abstain. There is a legal order for him to appear and he has the obligation. Let him then express what he wants at the hearing,” said magistrate José Antonio Mora.

As EL PAÍS reported this Tuesday, Torrejón sent a letter to the National Court expressing that he does not want to testify as an expert in the trial, and recounts how the PP Government used him in 2010 to prepare a report that exonerated the Popular Administration. . According to him, he prepared that document ad hoc on orders from his then superiors to counter the conclusions of the Gürtel investigators, without even having access to the contracts to which he was referring.

The prosecutor requests two and a half years in prison for the former regional president for fraud and prevarication in the awarding of contracts to the Gürtel plot, which was nested within the PP and which landed in the Valencian Administration during the Camps era (2003-2011). . The accusations strive to demonstrate that the head of the Executive was at the top of the plot and that a good part of the rest of the defendants – another 25 people sit in the dock, including three former advisors of their governments and a dozen technicians of the Administration – acted as a transmission belt and execution of its original orders.

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