The former president of the bank will be the last to testify on November 29
MADRID, 16 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The judge of the National Court (AN) instructing the ‘Tándem’ macro-case has called three agents of the National Police Corps and a BBVA worker to testify this week, all as investigators, for the alleged illegal orders that the bank would have done to the now retired Commissioner José Manuel Villarejo.
It will be on Wednesday when Judge Manuel García Castellón will take a statement from the three policemen, and on Thursday he will do the same with another defendant, Oscar Santos, a BBVA employee. Also summoned for the 20th is José López, a witness who was identified as the company worker who prepared the entity’s reports in response to SEPBLAC’s information requirements.
Within this piece of the macro-cause on Villarejo, the head of the Central Court of Instruction Number 6 puts the magnifying glass on BBVA’s contracts with CENYT -business group of the retired commissioner- signed at least between 2004 and 2017 and for which the entity would have paid the former police officer more than 10 million euros.
These statements constitute the last round before the judge ends the investigation of this separate piece number 9, according to the legal sources consulted by Europa Press.
That of former BBVA president Francisco González — who requested to appear again — is expected to be the last statement. Initially scheduled for November 2, it was postponed to the 29th of that same month due to scheduling problems in his defense.
González is being investigated by the AN for alleged crimes of bribery and disclosure of secrets. The Criminal Chamber lifted his accusation for unfair administration by estimating his appeal by the former president of BBVA against the judge’s decision to follow the criteria of the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office, which saw this possible illicit in the alleged use of the bank to obtain information about a farm that the banker was interested in buying privately.
