• Iberdrola recognizes that he hired Villarejo and announces an investigation
  • He accuses him of opacity. Iberdrola initiates an offensive against Florentino Pérez
  • Asenjo, former Iberdrola Security Chief denies having ordered Villarejo reports on Florentino Pérez

The former head of Iberdrola Security , Antonio Asenjo, charged with bribery and revelation of secrets in the 'Villarejo case', reveals Judge Manuel García Castellón who has maintained a negotiation with the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor to collaborate but who considers it broken to feel deceived by the Public Ministry . He also requests that the two declarations he has made so far in the National Court in which, although he exonerated President Ignacio Sánchez Galán , be declared void, he assured that the company’s leadership knew about the contracts with the Cenyt Group . It also asks that the recordings made by the commissioner imprisoned in Estremera prison not be accepted as valid evidence.

He points out his defense in a brief that he has presented before the Court of Instruction number 6 of the National Court and to which EL MUNDO has had access, which has held several meetings during the last months at the headquarters of Anticorruption to transfer his "full disposition and unconditional "to put" your memories "available to the court .

However, the lawyer Manuel Santaella , who defends who was responsible for the security of electricity for almost two decades, terminates the talks with the Public Ministry while accusing Anticorruption of making him "thirteen fourteen" as well as "Try to play with two decks," he says verbatim in his writing.

One of the main reasons for the breakup of Asenjo with the Prosecutor's Office is that he has given validity to the testimony of former director José Antonio del Olmo , who has admitted the truth of a report that Iberdola does not recognize as his own and in which he is involved to Sánchez Galán in the orders to Villarejo. Del Olmo declared as a witness, a condition that questions Asenjo's defense, because, in his opinion, "it is not such."

Asenjo's collaboration consisted in admitting that the company's dome knew about the reports that Commissioner José Manuel Villarejo gave him but completely excused President Ignacio Sánchez Galán . The latter is separated from both the knowledge of the orders made and that the person hired was an active police commissioner.

In fact, Asenjo personally assumes responsibility for the hiring of Villarejo under the conviction that he was on leave and acknowledges that he misrepresented the concepts of the invoices to cover up the true jobs to which they responded. In this line he declared as investigated before the court in early February after agreeing to leave the company and is scheduled to appear for the third time this week.

It should be remembered that Iberdrola hired the Cenyt Group, owned by Villarejo, for at least thirteen years, between 2004 and 2017, to investigate, among other issues, the president of ACS and Real Madrid, Florentino Pérez , when he tried to access the Board of Directors of the electric This was revealed by the recordings published by 'Moncloa.com' and 'El Confidencial'. For these orders, which amounted to 17, Villarejo received a total of at least 1.1 million euros .

Finally, Asenjo asks that the recordings made by Commissioner Villarejo not be accepted as evidence because there is no "digital certification in his dump by the Police" and "there are no original files" of these tapes.

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