The former BBVA senior official, Antonio Béjar , has become a loose verse, a time bomb for the financial entity that can be a valuable contributor to the judicial investigation of the so-called Villarejo case.

The bank took the action of Béjar to the Prosecutor's Office several months ago and is the first dismissed by the entity after applying an internal procedure, but the former manager was calm and willing to collaborate in his judicial testimony of July 29, according to sources Legal

The country's second bank is preparing its defense as a defendant in the Villarejo scandal with a hard hand and BBVA president Carlos Torres has already fired two former senior officers from the stage of his predecessor, Francisco González , in two months, in on the eve of having to testify as a legal entity. The clearest case is that of Béjar, former president of the so-called Chamartín operation . Official sources confirmed yesterday that «Béjar has been dismissed after an internal procedure that was opened a few months ago». . The Information published yesterday that the manager has already received a letter of dismissal.

BBVA does not reveal what it has discovered in the management of Béjar - which commissioned services to Cenyt, the company of Villarejo, in its stage of director of Risks and Real Estate Recoveries of the bank - as to communicate irregularities to the Prosecutor's Office last spring and proceed now to his dismissal. It is known that Villarejo charged million-dollar commissions for his services against brick delinquents who owed money to the bank.

The dismissal of Béjar that took place last week, contrasts with the decision of the Prosecutor to loosen the pressure on him last July. The former banker finally agreed to testify before Judge Manuel García Castellón on July 29 and made a long account of everything he knew about the case. He testified for three hours and the Prosecutor's Office rewarded his cooperation by withdrawing his request for admission to an elusible prison with bail of 500,000 euros. The defendant had to explain why he ordered to destroy computer equipment and contradicted data that the bank had provided to the Court. Béjar has not hidden former bank colleagues from his discomfort with the current address of the financial institution . In BBVA, they dismiss their dismissal from the judicial declaration of the former president of the Northern District and insist that it is due to the conclusions of the internal procedure.

Béjar was considered of the confidence of González, who promoted him to different positions, the latter entrusting him with the then dying operation Chamartín finally approved last July and that he could no longer taste for his dismissal and imputation in the Villarejo case.

The march of Béjar follows that of the former head of legal services and regulatory compliance of the bank, Eduardo Arbizu , also last July, although his dismissal was not presented with the harshness applied with Béjar. Already prior to the arrival of Torres to the presidency, the former head of Security, Julio Corrochano , considered the main responsible for the hiring of Villarejo had retired. Torres assured employees on January 14: «My priority is to clarify the facts and act with the forcefulness necessary to resolve this situation».

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