The judge investigating BBVA's orders to Villarejo will listen tomorrow to the bank's former head of regulatory compliance

MADRID, 19 Ene. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The judge of the National Court (AN) that is investigating the alleged illegal orders that BBVA would have made to the now retired commissioner José Manuel Villarejo will take a statement this Friday as the former head of regulatory compliance of the entity Antonio del Campo is being investigated.

Legal sources have confirmed to Europa Press that the head of the Central Investigating Court Number 6, Manuel García Castellón, has summoned the person who was responsible for the bank's 'compliance' between 2007 and 2020 starting at 10:00 a.m. 09.45 am, the instructor of the 'Tandem' macro-cause will listen to several policemen.

Del Campo's statement comes after the magistrate listened to the former president of BBVA Francisco González on December 16. Before the judge, González denied that he was responsible for hiring Villarejo and assured that the former director Antonio Béjar lied in court when he asserted that he ordered him to contract with the company that the then 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 answered questions from his lawyer, anti-corruption prosecutors and García Castellón for two and a half hours. Legal sources consulted by Europa Press present at the interrogation explained that the banker fully ratified his first appearance.

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.