A former senior official of the Bank of Spain has filed a lawsuit against the supervisor on the grounds that he has been dismissed improperly in retaliation for disagreeing in the Bankia case. This is Jorge Pérez, former head of Accounting Regulation of the Bank of Spain, who, as he testified at the National Court, warned his superiors in 2010 that Bankia was born with non-existent benefits and, in 2011, that he intended to leave for Bag «an evident deterioration of 7,400 million» , which the new bank did not reflect in the accounts.

Judicial sources aware of the lawsuit filed by Pérez in the Court assure EL MUNDO that he claims readmission and attributes his dismissal to retaliation for his attitude in Bankia. «The Bank of Spain has decided to expel the dissident, the dissenting, the awkward witness who contradicts the official version of the Bankia case , throwing a 62-year-old person into the street, to the tail of unemployment, with his career and his curriculum », Maintains in its lawsuit before the Social Court number 41, according to these sources.

The then governor of the Bank of Spain, Miguel Ángel Fernández Ordóñez , ignored the warnings of his chief accountant, despite the fact that he came to warn that the institution could incur "social responsibility" for allowing the boxes to hide losses. He was also critical of the following governor, Luis Linde , for allowing the Bank of Spain to prepare counter-reports to distort that of Bankia's judicial experts, who argued that the bank had gone public without reflecting its accounting reality. According to the sources consulted, Pérez resigned from his position as chief accountant in 2015 for refusing to collaborate on the counter reports that questioned the experts , who were inspectors of the supervisor himself.

A spokesman for the Bank of Spain denies that the dismissal has to do with any reprisals against Perez, but as a result of "a disciplinary record" that concludes that the former director incurred "very serious breaches." It does not give details, but ensures that the internal investigation of Pérez was opened last year, before he declared in May at the National Court. The lawyer of the Intersindical Credit Confederation and promoter of the case, Andrés Herzog , asked that Ramírez be cited as a witness since 2017, but he was not called until May 6.

The aforementioned judicial sources ensure that the supervisor justifies the dismissal for disloyalty and breach of professional secrecy by having collaborated in working hours with, among others, the former general director of Supervision of the Bank of Spain, Aristobulo de Juan . This veteran expert, considered an eminence in the Bank of Spain itself, is currently a consultant and, according to the aforementioned sources, asked Perez for an opinion on the Banco Popular. The dismissed alleges that after resigning as chief accountant he remained as an advisor without a predetermined working schedule and denies violation of secrets either in this or in other cases, because his assistance to De Juan was marginal and alien to the supervisor. The Bank of Spain dismissed Pérez on July 30 and has refused an agreement with him since then.

The supervisor confirmed the hiring of lawyers from the Uría law firm to face Pérez's lawsuit. According to La Información, there will be up to five labor law specialists from this private office who will support the large legal service of the Bank of Spain.

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