Warns the company that if it does not deliver them, it could incur a crime of disobedience
MADRID, 4 Nov. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The judge investigating the alleged illegal assignments by BBVA to the business group of the now-retired Commissioner José Manuel Villarejo, CENYT, has urged the Northern Castellana District (DCN) to deliver the emails and corporate agendas of its former president and also former bank manager Antonio Béjar, warning that, if he does not do so, he could incur a crime of disobedience.
This is stated in an order from last Wednesday, to which Europa Press has had access, where the head of the Central Court of Instruction Number 6, Manuel García Castellón, gives DCN ten calendar days to provide “all the correspondence housed in Mr. Béjar’s corporate emails” and “the agendas of his secretary in said company”.
The instructor adds that, “if they are not found”, DCN must go to the service provider of its corporate emails, in this case Microsoft, so that they give it a “full copy” of the emails and agendas of Béjar that are hosted in its servers.
All this, he warns, “with the warning of committing a crime of serious disobedience to the judicial authority”, since access to this information is a recurring request by Béjar that was endorsed by the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office and by the Criminal Chamber of the National Court.
García Castellón clarifies to DCN that, once sent to the AN, a sieve will be made to select only the information related to the people indicated by Béjar, excluding everything that does not affect the judicial investigations.
Béjar, former head of Risks at BBVA and former president of DCN charged in this case, has been demanding access to the ’emails’ and agendas that he had in both companies, considering that they contain essential information for his defense.
Initially, he wanted to be able to have access to all his emails and agendas in BBVA and DCN, but the judicial headquarters told him to limit the playing field to those that could be relevant to the investigation.
This diligence is part of the new round of statements promoted by García Castellón, which will conclude on December 15 with the former president of BBVA Francisco González, who asked to appear voluntarily because when he went in 2019 the case was still secret.
The legal sources consulted by Europa Press indicate that this is the last blow of this separate piece number 9 of the ‘Villarejo case’ or ‘Tándem’, in which the judge puts the magnifying glass on BBVA’s contracts with CENYT, for different projects –presumably illegal– that would have been developed between 2004 and 2017 and for which the commissioner would have charged more than 10 million euros.
