The judge of the National Court Manuel García-Castelln has sent to trial Jose Manuel Villarejo and the former director of Security of Iberdrola Antonio Asenjo for a dozens of illegal orders from the company to the retired commissioner. The magistrate names the company as civilly responsible, so the amounts that would be set in a possible sentence for its former employee could be claimed.
In the order in which he concludes that there is sufficient evidence to go to trial with the separate piece 17 of the in the same case, The head of the Central Court of Instruction Six proposes to also try Villarejo’s partner in the Cenyt company Rafael Redondo.
In the case, the president of Iberdrola, Ignacio Sánchez Galn and the company itself, but the magistrate lifted those accusations.
The magistrate considers proven the crimes of bribery, discovery and disclosure of secrets and falsification of commercial documents.
The magistrate asks the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office and the rest of the accusations to present their requests for conviction, the last requirement to be able to go to trial.
The resolution explains that according to the investigation, between the years 2004 and 2011, Antonio Asenjo, in his capacity as security director of the Iberdrola Group and “with full knowledge that Jose Manuel Villarejo Pres “He was in active service as Commissioner of the National Police Corps”, he was commissioned with several investigations into events that directly affected the Iberdrola company.
According to the judge, the purpose of the investigations entrusted to Villarejo “in the name and on behalf of the Iberdrola Group” was “obtain information about natural and legal persons that could be used by the company to defend its interests.” The Villarejo company thus received 1,455,064 euros from the Iberdrola Group.
Throughout his resolution, the magistrate details the dozen projects entrusted to Villarejo’s company, among them the investigation of the then president of Endesa, Manuel Pizarro, one of its main competitors in the market. In the execution of this project Black board Those investigated managed to obtain Pizarro’s call traffic and collected information about people he contacted within the framework of the takeover bid that Gas Natural carried out in 2005 for Endesa.
The judge explains that to justify the payments made and received on behalf of the Iberdrola Group, those investigated agreed to issue a series of invoices manipulating concepts to reflect different services to those who really lent themselves and thus mask “that they had been lent by an active commissioner of the National Police Corps.”