The former CEO of BBVA and current president of Caixabank, Jose Ignacio Goirigolzarriassured this Monday before the judge of the National audience Manuel García-Castellón who was informed by Ángel Canothen responsible for Media of the entity, that “an intelligence agency” had been hired, which turned out to be Cenyt, flagship of former commissioner José Manuel Villarejo, in relation to the takeover bid launched by the construction company Sacyr to take over control of the bank.
Goirigolzarri, who testified as a witness, when BBVA’s former Director of Communication concluded Javier Ayusoexplained that in relation to the Trampa/Trapa project for which he had been summoned, he only remembered one meeting held andn 2004 or 2005 with Canoin which he told him that the contract had been made, which, he maintained, meant an anger of such magnitude that it made the meeting brief.
Number 1
Before his words, the lawyer of the former head of Risks of the entity Antonio Béjar, the former magistrate of the National Court Javier Gomez Bermudez, asked him who could make such a decision behind his back, considering that he was number two in the entity. Sources present at the statement pointed out that Goirigolzarri responded by saying that the answer was implicit in the question and that he could only be “number 1”, referring to the then president of BBVA, Francis Gonzalezimputed in the case for the alleged espionage of the former president of Sacyr Luis del Rivero.
The statements of Gorigolzarri and Ayuso have been produced in the separate piece number 9 of the Tándem macrocause, where the police sewers are investigated through the contracts signed by various entities with the Villarejo companies. In number 9, the contracts signed by BBVA with Cenyt between 2004 and 2017 are investigated, for which the bank would have paid more than 10 million euros.