The president of the association has asked to testify voluntarily before the judge of the National Court in charge of investigating the alleged orders that BBVA would have entrusted to the now retired commissioner José Manuel Villarejo.
In a letter from 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 ‘Tandem’ macro-case is located.
Specifically, his representation points out, it becomes “pertinent and necessary that Pineda be summoned to testify as a victim” at a time when “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 –the flagship of the Villarejo business group– for different projects between at least 2004 and 2017. For these works, the entity would have paid the commissioner more than 10 million euros.
One of those jobs that the entity would have entrusted to the commissioner would have been known as ‘Pin Project’. 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 from BBVA some 500,000 euros per year for several semesters while Villarejo was an active police officer.”
The examining magistrate assumed this thesis in one of these orders, explaining that BBVA would have commissioned Villarejo to spy on Pineda in the context of the legal battle over the ground clauses to destroy his reputation and file a complaint that the commissioner would channel through the UDEF.
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