The National Court has sentenced the commissioner to 19 years in prison Jose Manuel Villarejo for crimes of disclosure of company secrets in the iron piece and of individuals in the land piecein addition to falsifying a commercial document, while he has been acquitted of bribery in both and of extortion in the degree of conspiracy in the Painter piece.
The sentence, of 351 pages, considers that it cannot be convicted of bribery since the requirements of this type of criminal offense are not met given that the acts carried out by Villarejo “He did not carry them out in the exercise of his position nor were they related to his public activities & rdquor ;.
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As reported by the judicial body, magistrates of the Fourth Section of the Criminal Chamber have handed down a sentence on the first three pieces that have been tried in the so-called Tandem casein which the contracting of the Villarejo company, Cenyt, to carry out certain orders has been investigated.
In the case of the piece Iron, the hiring of Villarejo by the law firm Herrero&Asociados has been tried to obtain information from a competing law firm on suspicion that he had stolen their database. The piece Land has focused on the hiring of Cenyt to investigate the environment of the owner of PROCISA by order of one of his daughters, Susana, in the context of a family dispute over inheritance, while in Pintor it has been inquired about the order of the brothers Fernando and Juan Muñoz Támara to Villarejo to gather information from a former partner, Mateo Martín Navarro, and his lawyer, former judge Francisco Javier Urquía, that would allow them to resolve a tax dispute in his favor. In total, 26 people have been tried, in addition to Villarejo, including his partner Rafael Redondo, who has been sentenced to 13 years in prison for the same crimes as the commissioner. Nine other people have been sentenced to between three months and two years in prison, while 16 have been acquitted, including Villarejo’s wife, Gema Alcalá, and their son, José Manuel Villarejo Gil, as well as police officers Constancio Riaño and Antonio Bonilla. In the case of Enrique García Castaño, he was excluded from the trial due to illness.