Vox asks the CNMV to investigate the dismissal of four Indra directors, considering that there is a plan to "control" it

MADRID, 7 Jul. (EUROPA PRESS) -

Vox has requested this Thursday the National Securities Market Commission (CNMV) to investigate the dismissal of the four Indra directors that took place on June 23, considering that there is "sufficient evidence" to believe that Amber, Sapa and the State Society of Industrial Participations (SEPI) have a "pre-established plan" to "control" the technology company.

To this end, the Legal Vice-Secretariat of Vox, headed by Marta Castro, has sent a letter to the CNMV stating that the four directors dismissed during Indra's Ordinary General Meeting are "precisely the same ones who prevented that its chairman, Marc Murtra, be named chief executive. "In fact, the dismissed themselves have denounced a malicious plan between Amber, Sapa and SEPI to take control of Indra," adds the formation.

Castro explains that SEPI, a publicly owned company dependent on the Ministry of Finance and Public Administration, is the main shareholder of Indra. After analyzing various documents, Castro emphasizes the possibility that Murtra "had provided information to Amber, with the sole purpose of encouraging her investment, to buy the necessary package to reach the required majorities for the Ordinary General Meeting of the June 23."

In this way, the formation points out in a statement, "they limit the room for maneuver of other shareholders by reaching the majority necessary to approve the dismissal of independent directors." "In fact, the proposal to dismiss the directors was hidden in the Board of Directors that was held before the Meeting", he adds.

Castro also denounces that the obligations established by the European OPA Code have been omitted and that it requires informing the CNMV of the proposed dismissal of the directors and the new designation of the composition of the administrative body. A fact that has not occurred because "the Government, through SEPI, intends to control strategic and global companies such as Indra", they insist.

In summary, Vox regrets that the obligations to prevent the CNMV have been ignored and the recommendations of the Code of Good Governance have been omitted, "a trend that has become the modus operandi of the president of Indra since 2017," according to Castro.

For his part, the deputy of Vox Víctor González has called what happened a "botched job organized by the Government" by Pedro Sánchez and has insisted that what happened "neither can nor should be washed in a new Extraordinary Shareholders' Meeting as they intend with an undetermined date ". "The CNMV cannot keep looking the other way," he said, emphasizing that "it must act and demand responsibilities in a transparent and diligent manner."

"SEPI, Sapa and Amber, together with the president of the Prisa group (Carlos Núñez) acted irresponsibly," he continued, stressing that "believing that no one would tell them anything, they turned the General Shareholders' Meeting into a circus." "Their actions have had clear consequences for minority shareholders and have seriously damaged the image of the company, the CNMV and the Spanish Government," he continued.

González recalled that Vox "has been warning and asking about the government's assault on Indra for months" and believes what happened "further proof of the institutional deterioration to which the social-communist Executive is leading us." In parallel, he warns that this will not be his last step "if the supervisory body once again fails to fulfill its mandate and reason for being."