The Bank of Spain has put under suspicion the current vice president of the National Securities Market Commission and advisor to the supervisory body, Ana Martínez-Pina, and has provided Deloitte with emails from an official that could be valuable for his defense in the called Bankia case. These are some of the explosive data that emerged yesterday from an internal investigation of the Bank of Spain to its former head of Accounting Regulation, Jorge Pérez, whom he has fired "for disloyalty."

It was in the Social Court number 41 of Madrid that Perez's lawsuit against the Bank of Spain was seen for sentencing "for unfair dismissal" and for investigating him for being "uncomfortable witness" of the supervisor's performance in Bankia, according to your version

The Bank of Spain itself confirmed that it ordered Deloitte, accused in the Bankia case of collaborating with Rodrigo Rato in falsifying the accounts, extracting from the Pérez's computer the mails destined to, among others the vice president of CNMV, in case it was one of the recipients of confidential information provided by your "disloyal" employee.

The surprising revelation was made yesterday in court by the lawyer of the Bank of Spain, Cristina Taboada, who has been commissioned by the dome of the supervisor to instruct the investigation of the mails and the telephone of Pérez. According to Taboada, he asked Deloitte to pass the emails addressed to Martínez-Pina, because "they had a size that caught our attention."

Taboada was looking for whom Pérez could pass on secret information of the entity and included among the people under suspicion Martínez-Pina, officials of the Ministry of Economy, or the current president of the Spanish Banking Association, José María Roldán. He also ordered to scrutinize, in general, all those related to Bankia and Ernesto Ekáizer, author of a critical book with the agency.

The case of Martínez-Pina has a double impact. On the one hand, it is striking that the Bank of Spain is interested in the mails that a high position of the State receives like her. On the other, he entrusted Deloitte with his search when this firm is an old enemy of the vice president of the CNMV. Martínez-Pina presided over the Accounting and Audit Institute (ICAC) when he issued a multi-million dollar sanction against Deloitte for very serious breaches of his performance auditing Bankia on the IPO. Sources from the CNMV vice president confirmed to EL MUNDO that he exchanged emails with Pérez, but denied irregularities and linked them to his previous stage at ICAC, where the former director of the Bank of Spain participated in one of its committees.

Deloitte not only accepted the assignment to participate in the investigation of an employee who was known to testify against him in the Bankia case, but also lent himself to look for emails related to the case. A spokesman for this group clarified, however, that “the contract is formalized through a Deloitte company not related in any case to the audit firm, or to the banking teams or, of course, to anything that has to see with the work of Bankia. It fits perfectly with the regulations ». And he said that this type of work is merely technical and in them "there is no access to the content of the emails." Taboada pronounced on the same line, although he confirmed that he provided Deloitte with "a forensic copy" with all the reviewed emails he encrypted in more than 2,000.

According to the Bank of Spain's lawyer, Pérez removed from the bank, among others, "a secret document" related to the ground clauses, although a superior of the former director, Daniel Pérez, testified that he did not remember such a document that he did not know the authorship.

For Pérez's lawyer, the investigation responds to the desire to remove him from the supervisor because of his critical attitude with his superiors in the management of the Bankia case. The Bank of Spain denied it categorically, but the former director general Aristobulo de Juan paid the reprisal theory by revealing in court a conversation with the governor, Pablo Hernández de Cos. De Juan said he suggested to the governor last June names to reinforce the management team and that he recommended Jorge Pérez, but that Hernández de Cos twisted the gesture and was critical of the judicial testimony he had made.

The president of the Intersindical Credit Confederation, Gonzalo Postigo, attended the trial, which will take this internal investigation of the Bank of Spain to the Prosecutor for irregular.

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