The National Court judge Fernando Andreu has been called to testify as suspects on 16th October to Bankia president Rodrigo Rato, the Caja Madrid Miguel Blesa and former director general of the latter Ildefonso Sánchez Barcoj by the use of the ‘Card B’ opaque to the Treasury who had 86 directors of both entities, legal sources.
The magistrate has opened a separate piece in the case investigating the merger and IPO of Bankia and has issued an order in which he announced that the three exdirectivos ask, they will have to go accompanied by a lawyer, for the use of these cards, which the directors charged personal expenses by $ 15.5 million between years 1999 and 2012.
The judge, who does not specify the offenses that could indiciariamente attributed to the three defendants on these facts, you will hear first from 15.00 Ildefonso Sánchez Barcoj, course creator of this remuneration system and its opaque card charged a total of 484,200 euros in the fourteen years investigated. In addition, spent 90,879 euros card Bankia that returned by the other three former directors of the entity that used this method of payment.
Then it will appear at the Central Court of Instruction No. 4 Miguel Blesa, which spent 436,700 euros, and finally Rodrigo Rato, who charged 44,200 euros to 54,837 euros Caja Madrid and Bankia, which latter amount was readmitted to the entity. PERSONAL EXPENSES
Counselors 15.5 million was spent in restaurants, supermarkets, hotels, clothing stores and jewelry stores. Specifically, 33.2 percent of the expenses charged on these cards correspond to cash out of ATMs, 14.8 to travel needs, 11.1 percent to large areas, 10.1 percent restaurants, 8.3 percent at hotels, 5.8 percent to clothing and accessories, and 3.3 percent to power. 13.4 percent corresponded with other expenses not specified.
The scandal became known after Bankia moved to its main shareholder, the Fund for Orderly Bank Restructuring (FROB), and documentation CD with details of bank transactions that body moved to the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor.
The Anticorruption prosecutor, Antonio Salinas, judicializó the issue last September 24 to move the High Court proceedings that had opened earlier this month for possible corporate crime and misappropriation.
Judge Fernando Andreu, who took to be instructing the ‘Bankia case’, asked last week if the Bank of Spain was aware of these cards and asked him, under the expert report being undertaken on practices in the organization, consider whether their use may constitute an offense of unfair administration.
According to the documentation reviewed, cards were issued “outside the established circuit and general ordinariness” of the bank, with expenditure of 15,249,300 euros for the former directors of Caja Madrid between 2003 and 2012 and of 245,200 euros for Bankia between 2011 and 2012 This entity interested justification of expenses to its officers and directors, who proceeded to return the money, according to sources in the state.
In particular, the 21 executive directors and directors of Caja Madrid, including Barcoj Blesa and Sanchez, spent 6,285,100 euros between 2003 and 2011, while 65 members of the Committee on Administration and Control Box charged a total of 8,964,200 euros in the same period.
Among them are the former general secretary of the PP in Madrid Ricardo Romero de Tejada, the ‘popular’ former deputy Paul Bees, the exnúmero 2 PSM Antonio Romero and IU leader José Antonio Moral Santín and CCOO union Antonio Baquero.
Between 2011 and 2012, four executive directors and managers used Bankia cards although the amounts returned. Sánchez Barcoj billed nearly 90,879 euros; Rodrigo Rato, 54.837; Matías Amat, 42,042; and José Manuel Fernández Norniella, 9700. Servando card Francisco Verdú no movement.
In these two years, in addition, 14 of the 20 directors and officers of Caja Madrid made movements worth 47,900 euros. Among them were former Secretary of State for Finance, José Manuel Fernández Norniella PP and the president of the employers CISM Arturo Fernandez.
Collaboration by Bankia
Meanwhile, the chairman of Bankia, José Ignacio Goirigolzarri has ratified today the readiness of the organization to work “proactively” with Justice in the case of the “opaque” cards.
The manager explained that, since his arrival, has defined a process to “examine any practices which apparently did not meet the bank orthodoxy”, the result of which has resulted in the detection of these cards, four of which correspond to “Bankia time” and the rest, “while Caja Madrid.”
Goirigolzarri noted, after being asked at a press conference on another matter, when became president of Bankia ” the operation of these cards did not exist “because” had been canceled. “
has also been reported in the analysis process to which he referred, evidence cards that did not respond to orthodoxy were detected , and that this occurred “a few months ago, during this exercise.”
Have also added that, upon learning of this situation, turned to the four people “to whom we could turn for tell you that money back “and, simultaneously, he recalled, put the case before the FROB, supervisor of Bankia.
In addition, he has moved, he said, the Caja Madrid Foundation” the relevant part “to that entity, “that had the information and conduct the appropriate actions they understand.”
In his explanation of the process, added that the FROB decided to put the matter to the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office and From there, said to be the experts of the Bank of Spain to analyze the documents, “which is all we have, absolutely all is held by the FROB,” he insisted.
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