The National Court has agreed to reopen the case against the president of Repsol, Antonio Brufau, and the former president of Caixabank, Isidre Fainé, according to a car to which he has had access THE NEWSPAPER OF SPAIN. The Third Section of the Criminal Chamber has estimated the resources presented by the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor, the businessman Luis del Rivero and Podemos against the judge’s order Manuel Garcia Castellon on July 29, 2021 in which it agreed, in separate piece 21 of the so-called Tandem Operation, the provisional dismissal of Brufau and Fainé, but also of legal entities Caixabank, SA and Repsol SA
In this way, the magistrates estimate the resources presented by the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor, the businessman Luis del Rivero and Podemos against the order of Judge Manuel García Castellón on July 29, 2021 in which the instructor agreed, in the separate piece 21 of the call Tandem Operationthe provisional dismissal of the accusations against Brufau and Fainé, but also against the legal entities Caixabank, SA and Repsol SA Thus, the Chamber annuls the dismissals so that certain procedures that it considers appropriate and necessary can be carried out.
Specifically, the magistrates assure that there are indications from which it can be deduced that the initiative to carry out the hiring of commissioner José Manuel Villarejo, as well as others aimed at reacting against the pact Sacyr-Pemex“started from Mr. Brufau” and that he “was informed in detail” of the results of the group’s efforts zenith: “Some of which involved information that was difficult to obtain had the intervention of public officials not been mediated,” the order indicates.
However, the order shows that there is no document, written, sound or image, that directly proves that Brufau carried out or ordered others to hire Villarejo: “Nor is there any where it is recorded that he knew, when the order was made , that Villarejo was an active commissioner of the National Police Corps, nor that he was informed of this circumstance at a later time,” he completes.
As in the case of Brufau, the magistrates confirm that there are no written, sound or image documents that prove that Fainé, then president of Caixabank, carried out or ordered others to carry out the order to Cenyt. But also in his acting the Chamber has detected indications that force the continuation of the procedure with respect to Fainé.
Specifically, the magistrates emphasize that Fainé himself claimed to have agreed with Brufau that the security departments of their respective companies collaborate in the matter. Sacyr-Pemex and that their respective managers meet to deal with the Cenyt group, with whom the REPSOL security director had already contacted.
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In the case of the Repsol company, as a legal entity, the magistrates consider that the investigation carried out so far also reveals the existence of indications of criminal conduct that can be classified as crimes of bribery and discovery and revelation of secrets: “From what has been done, it is evident that, by virtue of the aforementioned commission, carried out in 2011 by Repsol, to which Caixabank later joined, the Cenyt group, led by Mr. Villarejo, commissioner of the National Police Corps (CNP), certain investigations were carried out by said group, in exchange for a price, which was paid by the commissioning companies, on the now appellant Luis Del Rivero, his wife and people linked to Sacyr, some of whom had previously been linked to Repsol, that included access to data on the traffic of telephone calls and other communications”, specifies the order.
In this separate piece of the Villarejo case, the commission that Repsol and Caixabank employees would have carried out is investigated, after an agreement between the Sacyr and Mexican Pemex companies that could have a significant impact on the oil company’s shareholders, the Villarejo business group, commissioner of the National Police Corps in active service. Among the works that could have been carried out by the former police commandas stated in the order, there were investigations into Louis del Rivero, his wife and people linked to the construction company he directed: “In the course of which data on the traffic of telephone calls and other communications of these people could have been accessed,” highlights the resolution of the National Court.