The president of Ausbanc asks to testify before the judge investigating the alleged orders from BBVA to Villarejo

MADRID, 3 Jun. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The president of the association of banking users Ausbanc, Luis Pineda, has asked to testify voluntarily before the judge of the National High Court in charge of investigating the alleged assignments that BBVA would have entrusted to the now retired commissioner José Manuel Villarejo.

In a letter this Wednesday, to which Europa Press has had access, Pineda's lawyer justifies his request by referring to "the state of the proceedings" and the procedural phase in which this separate piece of the 'Tándem' macro-cause is found.

Specifically, his representation points out, it becomes "pertinent and necessary that Pineda be summoned to testify as a victim" at a time when "the clarification of the facts that are the subject of this investigation" is being pursued.

In this piece, number 9, Judge Manuel García Castellón investigates the alleged services contracted by the bank to CENYT -flagship of the Villarejo business group- for different projects at least between 2004 and 2017. For these works, the entity would have paid the commissioner more than 10 million euros.

One of those works that the entity would have entrusted to the commissioner would have been known as 'Project Pin'. According to the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office, the same "would have had the purpose of Villarejo spying on Pineda himself in exchange for receiving some 500,000 euros per year from BBVA for several semesters while Villarejo was an active police officer."

The investigating judge took up this thesis in one of these proceedings, explaining that BBVA would have commissioned Villarejo to spy on Pineda in the context of the legal battle over the floor clauses to destroy his reputation and file a complaint that the commissioner would channel through the UDEF.