The one who was one of the richest men today sees how his 'holding' is sold to the highest bidder and is dotted with corruption scandals
Villar Mir: imputed, forgotten in Palacio and separated from his company
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How would any old man feel if the work of his life, his holding company , were being sold to the highest bidder , and his name appeared on the lists of alleged corrupt , when, as a son of a military, he carries the honor as a flag, and the sacred Your family unit was also touched? Well, this is how the employer faces this 2020, as an old collaborator calls the almighty Juan Miguel Villar Mir , owner of the empire that bears his name, as he carries the title of marquis that Don Juan Carlos granted him in 2011.
The businessman is still in the eye of the hurricane because of the crisis suffered by the company that Deloitte once placed in the 62nd most important in the world, raising Villar Mir to the Forbes list of the richest. 2019 has been devastating, as the group, present in 30 countries, got rid of three jewels from its crown: Fertiberia, Ferroatlántica and Fertial also leaving the Canalejas project, undermined by a billion dollar debt.
Now, the Villar Mir negotiate with the Mexican family Amodio to sell them part of their 30.6% shares in OHL , their flagship, which would place them in a minority, after parting in 2018 with the other 12%. Divestment that, according to experts, can continue and whose starting point was the sale in 2015 of Torre Espacio, one of the Four Towers of the Paseo de la Castellana where the Villar Mir group is based. That is like his second home, so much that they celebrate the new year there with a large family lunch, instead of in his mansion in Puerta de Hierro, where the patriarch resides with his wife, Silvia de Fuentes, with whom he has been married for 61 years. .
Villar Mir, who at 88 years of age does not consider retirement, continues to go to his office on the 52nd floor.
As much or more than the debacle of his empire has hurt him to see his name associated with corruption scandals of the PP where payments are made in exchange for concessions such as the Bárcenas, Son Espases, Púnica, Lezo case (these last two brought him before the judge) and even in Mexico, where OHL appeared as alleged patron of Peña Nieto in exchange for works. Corruption not proven, since it has never been condemned, and also extends to his son-in-law, Javier López Madrid. Humiliating had to be seen in a court declaring, because a decade ago it was untouchable.
Named Marquis by King Juan Carlos, of whom he was intimate, during the Franco era he served as director of employment and deputy director of ports and was also decorated with the crosses of civil and military Merit and even Rodríguez Zapatero was awarded the Grand Cross of Isabel the Catholic . Son of an officer of the Francoist General Staff, Juan Villar Lopesino, and a pianist, Carmen Mir, from whom he inherited his fondness for zarzuela, he was a student of enrollment and number one of his promotion as a Road Engineer, which is on a par What right. His fortune was cemented as a result of the transition, where he was finance minister and economic vice president in the first government of the monarchy and subsequently presided over public companies, such as Altos Hornos de Vizcaya, specializing in refloating bankrupt industries.
Architect of the elitist urbanization Sotogrande , in Cádiz, in the year 87 acquires, thanks to a loan from his intimate Emilio Botín, the real estate company Espacio and the construction company Obrascon, future OHL, for a peseta, with which he will make pharaonic public works. They are the germ of its holding company , which integrates energy, iron and steel, fertilizers, construction companies and multiplied by acquiring one company per year until the Villar Mir empire was created.
Your heritage, in danger
Handicap 17 in golf, has a magnificent collection of art that, they say, has assessed in case the debts forced him to part with some of his goyas , rubens or zurbaranes , as well as vintage cars, including a Rolls-Royce. Until his decline began, he had only resisted one goal: to preside over Real Madrid, a club of which he was vice president. Such is his meringue passion that his boyfriend trip consisted of traveling to Stuttgart to see Madrid win his fourth European Cup , something that his wife seconded without a joke. Silvia was always his support, so much that Villar Mir has in her office a bust of her, because she claims to love her as the first day.
She, her three children (Juan, Álvaro and Silvia), married to Javier López Madrid, and her seven grandchildren are her priorities, along with her work and above all God, as this pious businessman who raised as a young man acknowledges in an interview priesthood. "To work effectively you have to have peace at home." Something also threatened today, although the patriarch, who in 2017 gave the Presidency and Vice Presidency of OHL to his children Juan and Silvia, integrated the couples of their offspring in their holding to hold the clan together, which brought him problems.
In the midst of so much collapse, Villar Mir seeks comfort on the 33rd floor of Torre Espacio, where he built a chapel that he usually visits before going up to the office.
Scandals also at home
Silvia, the only daughter of Villar Mir, married Javier López Madrid in 1990, whom her father-in-law ended up integrating into the large and million-dollar family business. But the "compi-yogi" of Queen Letizia and a great friend of King Felipe was forced to leave OHL's advice after the scandals she starred and pushed into London's exile where Ferroglobe now presides. His friendship with the Monarch was officially terminated after his involvement in the case of Bankia's Black Cards, and he was arrested in 2017 by Punica. In one of his rare interviews published by the Catholic magazine 'Mission', Villar Mir declared: "Whoever participates in a network of corruption, makes a fundamental mistake: he loses the prestige and respect of others."
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