The judge prosecutes the former Repsol and Caixabank security chiefs for the contracts with Villarejo
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The head of the Central Court of Instruction number 6 of the National Court, Manuel García Castellón, has agreed to follow the procedure against the former Repsol security chiefs, Rafael Araujo; and Caixabank, Miguel Ángel Fernández Rancaño, which he proposes to prosecute for active bribery in relation to commissioning commissioner José Manuel Villarejo to spy on the builder Luis Del Rivero.
In a car notified this Monday, García Castellón thus ends the instruction of the separate piece number 21 of the macrocause on the commissioner José Manuel Villarejo, who is also prosecuted together with the lawyer for his companies, Rafael Redondo and the retired commissioner Enrique Garcia Castaño for that joint order from Repsol and Caixabank. In the same situation is the deputy director of Support Services of the Corporate Security Directorate of the oil company, Rafael Girona, who would have been aware of the business.
Meanwhile, the case is filed for four other former Repsol and Caixabank executives because the instructor concludes from the proceedings that there are not enough evidence against them. This is what happened with the president of the oil company, Antoni Brufau; and the former president of the bank, Isidro Fainé, as well as with the two companies as legal entities. However, the four dismissals were appealed by the Anticorruption Prosecutor's Office and have not yet been resolved.
The instructor appreciates indications that Rancaño and Araujo were ultimately responsible for an assignment that went through spying on Luis del Rivero and other people in order to blow up the agreement he was forging with Pemex to increase his weight in Repsol's shareholding. According to him, "they had wide contracting margins, of decision and order of payments in relation to the field of security of the aforementioned merchants ”. In that context, the order would have been executed.
In the car, he explains that in 2011 the Cenyt Group, from Villarejo, drew up a series of reports on Luis del Rivero, his wife, the head of Safety at Sacyr and the former Repsol Financial Director with which the Villarejo company agreed to information, telephone calls made by Del Rivero and his environment, which constitute data of a reserved nature that is not accessed by open sources or public records. Call and communication traffic was facilitated by Enrique García castaño, then head of the Central Operational Unit.
For this assignment, the Cenyt Group received payments from the Repsol and Caixabank companies in the amount of 413,600 euros, of which 218,900 correspond to Repsol payments and 194,700 to Caixabank.
