The judge cites the State as civilly responsible for the crimes committed by Commissioner Villarejo

• Courts Iberdrola attacks the judge of the 'Villarejo case' and suggests that he is prevaricating

The judge of the National Court

has extended until January 2023 the investigation of the case that investigates Iberdrola's relationship with former Commissioner Villarejo, and has cited the State as subsidiary civil liability.

In an order dated this Thursday, the magistrate thus attends to the request made last May by the former head of Security of Iberdrola Antonio Asenjo in piece 17 of the Tándem case, which investigates the relationship of the electric company with companies linked to the former commissioner.

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for the crimes committed by the former commissioner while he was in active service in the National Police Corps, as well as the extension of the investigation until January 29, 2023.

The judge is based on a Supreme Court ruling to consider that once the process is over, it is appropriate to call the possible subsidiary civil liability, so that they can be aware of the facts and, eventually, defend themselves.

For this reason, it says, the request made by Asenjo must be accepted and the State must be summoned as subsidiary civil liability "offering it a reasonable period so that it can become aware of the proceedings and eventually plead or defend itself, in order to its possible exclusion from such a procedural position" .

For this reason alone, he adds, the procedure will necessarily need an extension, so it agrees to extend the investigation of this piece for a period of six months, until January 29, 2023.

In the car, the magistrate agrees to another series of procedures such as witness statements and requests a clarification from Florentino Pérez's defense in relation to the procedures that he had interested.

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will have to testify

, to clarify whether the invoices issued by Casesa and Cenyt, companies linked to the former commissioner, would correspond to the services related to the Arcos de la Frontera plant, and if those services were provided by Villarejo.

The investigating judge investigates in this separate piece whether Iberdrola hired the former commissioner for one million euros between 2004 and 2012 to, among other things, infiltrate platforms contrary to his interests or investigate a shareholder critical of his management, and in it they appear as investigated Villarejo, his partner Rafael Redondo and Asenjo himself

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