Francisco González denies responsibility for the hiring of Villarejo and affirms that a former manager lied when targeting him

Download in Corrochano the decision to hire Cenyt, the company of the investigated commissioner

MADRID, 16 Dic. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The former president of BBVA Francisco González has declared this Friday before the judge of the National Court that is investigating the contracting by the bank of the services of the retired commissioner José Manuel Villarejo that he had no responsibility in contracting that security provider, and that Former director Antonio Bejar lied in court when he asserted that he ordered him to contract with the company that the head of Security, Julio Corrochano, told him.

In his second statement as being investigated in this case -the first was in 2019 when the piece was still under secrecy-, González has answered questions from his lawyer, anti-corruption prosecutors and the judge himself, Manuel, for two and a half hours. Garcia-Castellon. Legal sources consulted by Europa Press present at the interrogation have explained that the banker has fully ratified his first appearance.

In addition, after discharging responsibility for the hiring of Villarejo's company, Cenyt, in its head of Security, has explained that BBVA in a 2019 letter made a mistake by pointing out that Villarejo's hiring in relation to Ausbanc was carried out under your patronage. Although he would have pointed out that this assertion by the bank's lawyers was later rectified.

In this piece of the 'Tándem' case, the head of the Central Investigating Court number 6 examines the BBVA contracts with the Villarejo business group, Cenyt, for different projects --presumably illegal-- between at least 2004 and 2017, some works for which the entity would have paid the commissioner more than 10 million euros.