The former Interior Minister assures that no one in his party informed him that there was "concern" about Bárcenas' papers and denies the authenticity of the messages with his number two The former number two at Interior of the PP denies that Kitchen existed and says there was only an "intelligence operation" The main defendant in the Kitchen case trial, former Interior Minister Jorge Fernández Díaz, stated this Thursday that he knew nothing about the operation until media publications began two years after it started. He said that the publication of the off-the-books accounting did not concern him because he did not appear in the papers: "I did not receive any under-the-table payments. Personally that could not interest or concern me at all." Here are the five most relevant phrases from his statement: "I find out about Operation Kitchen when it appears in the media" On whether the PP was concerned about Bárcenas' papers: "No one in the PP conveyed that to me" On whether he pressured Morocho to change his reports: "I did not make that call" "One had enough problems at home without going out into the street to find more" On the messages with Francisco Martínez: "I do not recognize them"