Experts who have investigated BBVA have found 60 "evidence" against the bank's former head of risks, Antonio Béjar, in the so-called Villarejo case. The forensic report of PriceWaterhouseCoopers dedicated to Béjar and which has been incorporated into the judicial summary of the case details emails, drafts of contracts and other documents by which they attribute to the dismissed manager "contractual relationship" and "knowledge" of what Ceny t did, the company of former commissioner José Manuel Villarejo to which he commissioned multiple jobs.
According to the report to which EL MUNDO had access last August 22 to Garrigues - the firm that has piloted the investigation for the bank -, the first test found against Béjar dates from 2008 and is a brochure of the company V&V linked to Villarejo in which it is expressly presented as "an organization directed and coordinated by members of State Security in an administrative situation of availability" .
Béjar, who has been fired with compensation of 1.7 million, argues that he did not hire Villarejo, but that he commissioned those who were then appointed by the then president, Francisco González. But PwC attributes an active role in hiring. He has found, among other evidence, “an email from March 9, 2011 sent by Mr. Antonio Béjar to Mr. Rafael Redondo [Villarejo's partner] with a copy to Mr. Julio Corrochano (Director of Security of BBVA), in the reference is made to «modify the contracts according to what was said yesterday . I beg you to send Julio an annex with the modifications mentioned ». Among the emails are enigmatic messages from current senior BBVA positions such as Juan Asúa. He reminds Béjar in an email in 2010 that «tomorrow we will take the opportunity to discuss with Paco the antibiotic and male issues of Paco and any other sensitive issue you can think of» . Asúa was then responsible for the bank for Spain and Portugal and the CEO at the time was Ángel Cano.
The former chief of staff of Francisco González and current head of internal audit, Joaquín Gortari, also appears in the correspondence of Béjar. According to PwC, he received information on inquiries about land that the president of BBVA personally wanted to acquire . Béjar gave him data that he obtained from Villarejo and handed him bills for the work. The bank has, however, exonerated both Asúa and Gortari of irregularities in the case.
PwC also assumes that Béjar knew that Villarejo was going to thoroughly investigate delinquents of Colonial (Luis Portillo) and Martinsa (Fernando Martín) brick to try to recover debts. The commissions for the former commissioner were up to 12.5% of what will be recovered. "We have identified e-mails in which the knowledge by Mr. Antonio Béjar of the patrimonial investigations carried out in relation to D. Luis Portillo and D. Fernando Martín" would be revealed, "the report adds.
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