The Prosecutor's Office investigating the so-called Villarejo case went on to affirm in the last interrogation that "BBVA and its attorneys have deceived, manipulated the evidence and cheated on the investigation" and the bank has exploded with a very harsh brief in which it rejects and disqualifies such accusation. . In a letter sent this Wednesday to the National Court to which EL MUNDO has had access, the country's second bank reveals the serious accusations made by the Prosecutor's Office in a final statement after the interrogation on June 22 of Javier López Andreo, partner Head of forensic for the firm Price Waterhouse Coopers, which was hired last year by BBVA's defense lawyers to carry out an internal investigation.

The prosecutor Ignacio Stampa was outraged by the lack of collaboration in his opinion of PwC and BBVA for not providing 223 files, but the bank chaired by Carlos Torres denies it. He accuses Stampa of bordering on procedural bad faith and asks the judge of the National Court, Manuel García-Castellón, to reject such assertions. ? Through this letter we reject in the most energetic way the accusations made by the Public Prosecutor's Office , " states the letter signed by the lawyers for Uría and Garrigues who defend BBVA.

It is not the first time that the country's second bank has lashed out at prosecutors in the case, but the tone of contempt is mounting. "The furious and extemporaneous attack that the Public Prosecutor's Office directed in its plea against BBVA and its defense attorneys must be emphatically rejected."

" The reproaches of the Fiscal Ministry are unacceptable. This is

Thus, not only because of the very serious disqualifications that, free of charge, unjustified and unnecessary, the Public Ministry has directed against the professionals who defend BBVA and against the Entity itself, but also because such reproaches are in clear contradiction with the statements themselves. of the Public Ministry ".

The question is whether the bank and PwC should have delivered 223 files, including internal emails, from the first moment, which the entity considers not relevant to the case and which it refuses to see all parties for affecting against privacy and business secrets. According to the letter, "in the case of several of them, mere access would constitute an intolerable violation of professional secrecy and, consequently, of the right of defense , which could even give rise to some type of legal liability." In it, it is ensured that an order of the judge of last June 29 admits that the Prosecutor's Office must rule on whether it is appropriate for all parties to see that documentation.

In any case, BBVA's lawyers assure that the Prosecutor's Office itself has known since March of its offer to all documentation through "an expungement procedure" which is what determines "whether some of the items affect professional secrecy, company secrets or another type of legal protection of information, avoiding giving access to these files to all parties. "

" Our offer is exactly the opposite of the manipulation of evidence or the deception or cheating that the Public Ministry unfairly attributes to us. The contradiction that the Public Ministry itself incurs is, therefore, evident to anyone who examines the facts objectively" . He also criticizes the silence of the Prosecutor's Office on the offer in March of the documentation in a restricted way, although it coincides with the declaration of the state of alarm in Spain.

In any case, the letter to the National Court concludes as follows: "We hope in good faith that this tone will not be hereafter, but that, on the contrary, we can have a procedural debate with the Prosecutor's Office that, although disagreeing, will take place loyal and respectful. "

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