The auditor Pricewaterhouse accuses the former head of BBVA Security before the Hearing of "breaching its regulations" by hiring Villarejo

The auditor

forcefully censures

for contracting with the

, owned by the commissioner

. In a recent report provided to the

concludes that the financial entity "did not comply with internal procedures" and blames the former head of the company's Security,

, for this conduct

.

The report specifically refers to the "Purchasing Regulations" while highlighting that the bank's Security Service "did not request the services" from the corresponding area. So they only know that he transferred the "need to hire an Intelligence, Surveillance and Corporate Development service". It should be remembered that the

maintains as investigated at this time both the financial institution and a good part of its former leadership, starting with former president

,for hiring Villarejo for alleged espionage work against the group led by

and

that tried to assault the entity with the support of the Government of

.

Likewise, the audit emphasizes that "it has not identified" that "supplier selection procedures and comparison of various offers were carried out", limiting itself to hiring the Cenyt Group "without providing justification for said qualification."

It has also not found, PriceWaterHouse points out, "award proposals or minutes of the Contracting Commission in which terms related to offers of services from this provider will be reviewed and validated."

At the same time, it also highlights the lack of "purchase orders and / or contracts where the order request was assigned to the contract signed between the supplier and the entity."

Therefore, the auditor blames the former head of BBVA Security for "not complying with internal procedures." To be more exact, "the Code of Conduct of the BBVA Group in relation to the application of the criteria established within the entity regarding the acquisition of goods and services".

Along these lines, he clarifies that "Corrochano had the powers to contract all kinds of services that the BBVA Group required, but we must clarify that although this person could have a legal authorization to contract on behalf of BBVA, this did not exempt him from complying with the internal procedures of the entity ".

In other words, "the Security Area did not have the internal competencies to contract these services directly from said supplier without involving the Purchasing Department."

He also censures the former head of the bank's commercial network in Spain for the same arguments.

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