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The head of the Central Court of Instruction Number 6 of the National Court Manuel García Castellón gave an ultimatum this Monday to the expert from PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), responsible for the forensic report of BBVA, the entity investigated as a legal entity in the Villarejo case. Either deliver the 223 emails required by the court or testimony will be deducted against him for a crime of disobedience.

According to legal sources to EL MUNDO, this request from the instructor occurred after PwC expert Javier López Andreo refused on Monday to withdraw the 223 emails requested by the Anticorruption Prosecutor's Office on Monday. That documentation includes emails exchanged between the former president of the entity Francisco González and the former head of internal control of BBVA Eduardo Arbizu with the first reaction of the managers when the scandal over the millionaire contracts that the bank made for a decade came to light to the commissioner linked to the State sewers, José Manuel Villarejo.

After the successive refusals of the expert, arguing that the entity does not allow him to provide the Audience with these emails because the right of defense is affected, Judge García Castellón has informed him in voce that his attitude borders on "the line" of the commission of a crime of disobedience. Subsequently, in court, the PwC expert has been given a formal request so that within seven days the 223 emails as well as other documents - an addendum, a summary, etc. - that the entity has not yet sent to investigators. Failure to send them will result in testimony against him.

Professional secret

BBVA sent a letter to the court months ago where it was assured that the documents held by the PwC auditor could "be covered by professional secrecy, by the attorney-client privilege of different professionals and various procedures, or by some type of legal protection for its reserved character. "

But the matter does not end here, with the formal warning of López Andreo by the judge. According to legal sources, another tense moment in the statement occurred when the Prosecutor's Office stated that the documentation of the report delivered with a dropper to the court was being manipulated because, as revealed by the expert himself. This serious accusation is due to the fact that the forensic report is stored on a virtual platform but, apart from it, a database was created that is accessible to the lawyers of Garrigues and Uría Menéndez, who exercise the defense of the bank, where submit the documentation.

It was the bank's own defense that screened the papers that were to be brought to justice, expressly asking that the emails between González and Urbizu not be delivered.

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