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The Court filed the Villarejo case for Fainé, Brufau, Caixabank and Repsol

Date: March 29, 2024 Time: 20:07:48

The National Court has ratified the definitive closure of the Villarejo case in the piece that affects Repsol, Caixabank and its two presidents at the time of the events, Antonio Brufau and Isidre Fainé, as La Información has been able to confirm in legal sources. It is the second time that the Court has ruled on this case, whose file was ordered by the investigating judge Manuel García Castellón after the first reopening almost a year ago, but which was appealed by the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office last June. Since then, the deliberations on this piece of the Villarejo case have followed one another to finally determine the definitive closure on the possible responsibility of the companies as legal persons and of their two leaders, for one the services that the commissioner provided them a decade ago.

The head of the Central Court of Instruction number 6, Manuel García Castellón, arrested -for the second time- on June 2 the closing of the separate piece number 21 of the ‘Tándem’ macro-cause, leaving the responsibility of the contracting of the Cenyt Group, the business network led by Villarejo, which resulted in heads of Security for Repsol and CaixaBank. The magistrate supported his resolution in the statements of the last witnesses and asserted that what was stated by those responsible for auditing and regulatory compliance of the accused companies did not allow maintaining the imputation of the president of Repsol, Antonio Brufau, and the current president of the Fundación La Caixa, Isidro Faine.

According to the investigating judge, there were no indications or suspicions, or documentary support, proving that the order to contract with Cenyt came from the ‘first swords’ of the companies or that both had been informed of the details and results of the orders. Likewise, he stressed that there is no “kind of doubt” that both the oil company and the bank had, at the time of hiring the Villarejo companies in 2011, a crime prevention model, thus expecting the requirements set forth in article 31 bis of the Penal Code.

But the Prosecutor’s Office challenged that last resolution to reproach the instructor for assuming the arguments of the representatives of both companies without verifying that their internal crime prevention controls did not really work and that the presidents of the oil company and the bank were aware of the work. of espionage carried out in 2011 by the undercover agent to stop the agreement reached between Sacyr Vallehermoso and the Mexican Pemex.

Already in the first file of the case, García Castellón, justified his decision on the unnecessary damage that was being caused to the reputation of the two large companies and their presidents, when it could not be demonstrated that there was any kind of strict liability for the defendants. and they had all the means that the ‘compliance’ rules establish for this type of case.

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Puck Henry
Puck Henry
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