It is being judged whether the electricity company would have hired Villarejo to, among other things, infiltrate platforms contrary to its interests or investigate a critical shareholder.
The president of Iberdrola, Ignacio Sanchez Galan, will go personally on Tuesday to testify as imputed for the orders of the electric company to the Cenyt company, linked to former commissioner José Villarejo, after the judge rejected his request to do so by videoconference.
The case dates from the end of 2019, after it was published that Iberdrola hired Villarejo to spy on a judge, infiltrate on platforms contrary to the interests of the electricity company, harass members of the works council of the Cofrents nuclear power plant or investigate a shareholder who is critical of the company’s management.
In that car, the magistrate appreciated indications that there was “will” on the part of the electricity company of hide the works commissioned to Cenyt, as it would show that the invoices were issued by a different company.
In total, the judge warned, between 2004 and 2012 fifteen invoices without order issued by the Villarejo company appear as received and paid, for an amount of 1,047,324 euros. Among the requested services is the so-called “posy project“, focused on investigating the president of ACS and Real Madrid, Florentino Pérez, “in order to find out any circumstance that, if necessary, could be used in a conflict scenario with Iberdrola”.
In fact, among the intervened documentation were data from the census of Pérez and his family; by then, in 2009, Sánchez Galán “already held the position of president.”
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