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BBVA made 52 payments for 14 years in the main Villarejo account

2020-02-21T02:53:45.307Z


A new police report details the transfer of 31 million euros in the commissioner's parent company. A third of the funds were payments from the financial institution


Transfers, checks, stubs, bill settlements ... The account that retired commissioner José Manuel Villarejo, alleged leader of the police plot dismantled in Operation Tandem , had opened between December 2004 and January 2019 records millionaire income. A report of the Internal Affairs Unit (UAI) of the National Police recently incorporated into the summary that the Judge Manuel García-Castellón instructs in the National Court shows that during those 14 years the police bank deposit received funds for about 31 million dollars. Euros Of this amount, one third corresponded to payments made by BBVA for the services that the police provided to the entity throughout that time and whose alleged irregularities are now investigated.

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In total, the financial institution made 52 payments to the company Club Exclusivo de Negocios y Transacciones SL (Cenyt), epicenter of the corporate plot of Villarejo. The policeman never appeared in the account as owner or authorized, although his partner, lawyer Rafael Redondo does appear; his wife, Gemma Isabel Alcalá; and one of his sons, José Manuel Villarejo Gil, all of them charged in different pieces separate from the cause. The retired commissioner remains in prison since his arrest in November 2017.

The UAI report, dated last Monday and to which EL PAÍS has had access, has 41 pages and about 300 of attached documentation. In it, those responsible for the investigation analyze all movements of entry and exit of funds recorded by the account that Villarejo, on behalf of Cenyt, opened in BBVA and that during the time it was open, recorded three formal numbering changes. The police document divides the analysis precisely into three limited periods, precisely because of the change in the numbering of the deposit.

Thus, the agents highlight that the account was opened on December 23, 2004 and maintained its original denomination until March 7, 2008. During that period, the deposit received 10 million euros through 53 movements. Of these, 19 revenues corresponded to BBVA, worth 1.07 million euros. The researchers point out that the first income received by the account, of 313,200 euros, came from the financial institution for the alleged payment of three invoices issued by the Villarejo company. The police stress that, in those years, there were times when payments from the bank accounted for almost 75% of the income received.

The second period analyzed covers from March 10, 2008 to May 16, 2014, and it is, by far, during which the highest income receives the account of the police society, then still active. In total, researchers have accounted for 358 checks, 38 transfers and 8 bill settlements for a total value of 17.6 million euros. Of this amount, 7.5 million corresponded to payments made by BBVA, including one of 1.4 million euros made on March 24, 2011. Finally, since the account changed for the third time numbering, it received 3 , 2 million euros in revenue. Of these, about 1.7 million corresponded to BBVA payments.

242,000 euros from BBVA after being arrested

Police say that the latter figure accounted for 53% of total payments and highlights a detail: after the arrest and imprisonment of Villarejo, on November 7, 2017, and until January 12, 2018, the account continued to receive funds from from BBVA. In total, 242,000 euros, divided into four deliveries of 60,500 euros. The financial entity had been entering this amount on a monthly basis since August 2016.

The police document also analyzes the outflows of funds from the same account in a continuous transfer that, in some moments, leaves it practically zero despite the millionaire income. In this case, the researchers group the fate of that money into three different blocks. Part of the money came out through transfers "to other merchants under concepts related to bill payments that could be due to consideration for merchant services rendered."

The payrolls of his wife and son

Another part, the report said, served to "maintain the corporate structure" set up by Villarejo. Here the agents include the payment of the lease of the real estate occupied by their companies and the payrolls of the employees. Among them, the police highlight the amounts received by the wife of the retired commissioner (4,000 euros per month) and her son (3,000 euros).

Finally, the third block of movements is the one that attracts the most attention to researchers. These are transfers of funds "to companies directly linked to Villarejo, including transfers to Cenyt itself or to mercantile companies under the ownership of that company or with special links with it," referring to companies of its partner Rafael Redono and the businessman Juan Carlos Escribano, presumed head of the retired commissioner. The amount of these transfers from the account ranges from the 2.6 million that Cenyt herself received to the 5,000 euros transferred to a company called Lextor. In total, 23 companies in the Villarejo network received funds from the BBVA account.

In addition, 1.4 million euros came out of it through checks and vouchers, another part served to pay taxes and Social Security fees for workers in Villarejo companies, and one more for the acquisition of shares in other companies or deal with capital increases of the companies of Villarejo itself. The agents highlight, in particular, the purchase of shares of the Eurosuisse companies - dedicated to the cultivation of olive trees - and the real estate developer Riomar Costa. Finally, on January 29, 2018, two weeks after BBVA's last admission, the account was seized by Judge García-Castellón. Then I had a balance of 574,810.28 euros.

The police document also makes a study of the possible connections between the Villarejo account and the financial products in the name of Julio Corrochano, then head of security of BBVA and who had previously held high positions of responsibility within the National Police. Corrochano, also charged in the case, was the person who opened the doors of the financial entity to the retired commissioner to perform different jobs, so Judge García-Castellón and the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor wanted to know if, in exchange, The first received a consideration. The agents conclude in their report that "there have been no movements related to payments or consideration" made by Villarejo in the accounts of the former security chief of BBVA.

Source: elparis

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