2023-06-28 20:07:35
The Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office has presented its indictment to the National Court in one of the separate pieces of the ‘Villarejo case’, which affects former managers of the Spanish multinationals Repsol and Caixabank for hiring the parapolice services of the company of the retired commissioner .
Prosecutors have requested 40 and a half years in prison for José Manuel Villarejo for the work carried out for the energy company and the bank through the so-called ‘Wine project’, in which both companies tried to defend their interests against the strategy of the construction company Sacyr and the Mexican Pemex to take over a significant number of Repsol shares in 2011 and cause a turnaround in the shareholding.
For the espionage services to find out about the actions of the then president of Sacyr, Luis del Rivero, and his family between 2011 and 2012, and the senior officer of Pemex Luis Alberto Mañas, a total of 389,400 euros were paid, half each company in six invoices different.
In their indictment, they also claim a sentence of 32 and a half years for Villarejo’s partner, Rafael Redondo; 21 years for the Deputy Director of Support Services of Repsol’s Corporate Security Department, Rafael Girona; 28 years for the former head of Security at Repsol Rafael Araujo and 21 years for the former head of Security at Caixabank, Miguel Ángel Fernández Rancaño. They are accused of bribery, disclosure of secrets and documentary falsification. Anticorruption also points out that both Repsol and Caixabank and the State Administration must be sentenced as subsidiary civil liability.
The file to Brufau and Fainé
Last January, the Criminal Chamber of the National Court confirmed the filing of the case against Repsol and Caixabank as legal entities and against the president of the first, Antonio Brufau, and the former president of the second until 2016, Isidro Fainé. The magistrates concluded that they had no contact with Cenyt, the Villarejo company, nor were they aware of the assignment of their security chiefs or employees.
The court chaired by Alfonso Guevara rejected the appeal of the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office, which assured that both companies did not carry out the necessary controls in the contracting of Villarejo’s services. The Chamber justified that there is no indication that Brufau and Fainé knew Villarejo or knew that he was on active duty in the National Police Force.
He also stated that the fact that the senior management of both companies “were concerned about the Sacyr-Pemex pact was within the normal range due to the impact it could have on the Repsol march, but it did not imply that (both presidents) were willing to undertake all kinds of actions, even contrary to the law to prevent it, “settled the order.
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