The judge of the National Court investigating the ‘Tándem’ macro case, Manuel García Castellón, has proposed trying Commissioner José Manuel Villarejo and the former security director of Iberdrola, Antonio Asenjo, for the dozen allegedly irregular orders that the high police command carried out for the energy company between 2004 and 2011. It also agrees to declare the company and the State Administration as civilly liable.
This is stated in the order of transfer to abbreviated procedure of separate piece 17, in which the head of the Central Court of Instruction number 6 proposes to also try Villarejo’s partner in the Cenyt company, Rafael Redondo, Europa Press reports.
The magistrate considers proven the crimes of passive bribery, active bribery, discovery and disclosure of secrets and falsification of commercial documents.
In his order, the judge names the Iberdrola Group and the General Administration of the State as civilly responsible and transfers it to the Prosecutor’s Office and the accusations to present their indictment documents.
The resolution explains that according to the investigation, between 2004 and 2011, Antonio Asenjo, in his capacity as security director of Iberdrola and with full knowledge that José Manuel Villarejo was in active service as Commissioner of the National Police Corps , commissioned him to carry out different investigations into events that directly affected the Iberdrola company.
According to the judge, the purpose of the investigations commissioned by Asenjo, in the name and on behalf of Iberdrola, to Villarejo, who was in active service as Police Commissioner, was to obtain information about natural and legal persons that could be used by the company to defend its interests.
For these orders, the order states, the Villarejo and Redondo company obtained 1,455,064 euros from the Iberdrola Group.
