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BBVA was charged as a legal entity for corruption and other crimes. The judge of the National Court, Manuel García Castellón, attributes alleged crimes of bribery, discovery and disclosure of secrets and corruption in business to the entity.
This announcement comes days after the anti-corruption prosecutor's office was in favor of indicting BBVA. At the beginning of July, nine BBVA officials were also charged with the same crimes, following the judicial investigation against the controversial former police officer José Manuel Villarejo, who is in prison.
For its part, Comisiones Obreras, the bank's France Mobile Number List main union, accused Francisco González of being “today, the main person responsible for the bank's loss of reputation.”
"For this reason, it is considered essential to definitively resolve any formal or informal relationship that the bank has with the previous president, since regardless of the degree of material and factual responsibility that he may have - or that this can only be attributed to his subordinates - You can delegate representation, but never responsibility,” he mentioned.
BBVA admitted at the beginning of the year that it hired the services of the Cenyt group led by Villarejo, the former police officer involved in several scandals that shook the country's highest echelons, including the monarchy.
Villarejo recorded his conversations with political leaders, judges and businessmen for many years, and is now accused of using them for blackmail purposes.
According to the Spanish media, BBVA had hired him in 2004 to access thousands of wiretaps of journalists and political and economic leaders, with the purpose of preventing the construction and infrastructure group Sacyr from entering its capital.
The allegedly illicit hiring and payments to Cenyt affected various areas of BBVA, and even various executives of the entity for a prolonged period.
According to data from El País, the Prosecutor's Office reaches these conclusions after analyzing the documentation in paper and digital format, seized in the searches carried out in the month of November 2017 and the documentation provided by BBVA itself.
« The public ministry highlights in its letter that some of the investigated managers, whose identity is not made known as the case is secret, supposedly received gifts from Cenyt for facilitating such hiring. In the order in which he charges BBVA, the magistrate also agrees to require the bank to designate the person who from now on will represent the entity before the National Court and who will be summoned to testify on a date yet to be determined.