• Courts The Court again charges Brufau, Fainé, Repsol and CaixaBank in the 'Villarejo case'

The head of the Investigating Court Number 6 of the National High Court,

Manuel García Castellón

, has completed the investigation of piece 21 of

the Tándem case

(Wine project) and proposes to try the commissioner José Manuel Villarejo together with five other people, while filing the case for

Repsol

and

Caixabank

and for the presidents of both companies,

Antonio Brufau

and

Isidro Fainé.

In the order to go to abbreviated procedure, the judge proposes to judge, in addition to Villarejo and his partner Rafael Redondo, the directors of Security of Repsol

Rafael Araújo

and Caixabank

Miguel Fernández Rancaño,

and

Rafael Girona

and

Enrique García Castaño

.

Likewise, the magistrate agrees to the provisional dismissal and file with respect to the directors Luis Suárez de Lezo, Joaquín Uris, Juan de Amunátegi and Antonio Masanell in this piece in which the orders of Caixabank and Repsol to Villarejo have been investigated to avoid an acquisition of actions of businessman Luis del Rivero on the latter company.

In his resolution, the magistrate explains that the investigation shows "without a doubt" that both companies, already at the time of contracting with

Cenyt,

had a crime prevention model that met the requirements set forth in the law and, therefore, the crimes investigated in this proceeding cannot be attributed to them.

Regarding the presidents of Repsol and Caixabank, he points out that there are no indications or suspicions that the order to contract with Cenyt or Villarejo was known to them, nor that both were informed of its results or of the payment to the supplier, which was made , according to the judge, by the respective heads of Security.

In short, the magistrate concludes that from the numerous investigation procedures carried out, it is not possible to maintain the situation of imputation that the two presidents hold today, "when from all that heritage their total lack of participation in the investigated facts is inferred, being prescribed the imputation for merely objective reasons by reason of the charge".

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