Expansion / Miguel Blesa and Rodrigo Rato
The directors and officers of Caja Madrid who had a black card accountable today before Judge Fernando Andreu, Audience Nacional. The instructor of the case Bankia, following the judgment of the prosecutor, has convened throughout the week except Thursday-28 users opaque plastic as accused and six witnesses (see box), which include the former president of Safety Madrid, Jaime Terceiro, and exgestores box not using your card.
This surge comes after the macroimputación statements by Judge Andreu announced last January 28, bringing to 82 those indicated in this cause, for alleged misappropriation and unfair administration. This measure was a 180 degrees to the strategy that had initially kept the magistrate, to focus research on the two presidents of the box, Miguel Blesa and Rodrigo Rato, and former CFO, Ildefonso Sánchez Barcoj.
After detecting “rational and enough” evidence that Blesa and Rato would have “consented, accepted and encouraged the misuse of funds of the institution, by delivering credit cards” -for which put them bail 16 million and 3 million, respectively, the Court now wants to focus his research on users of the cards.
The key interrogation that start today will be to test whether the 82 exconsejeros and recently accused exdirectivos They were aware that they were committing irregularities in accepting cards and use them for expenses other than representation.
Unresolved issues
“There are, therefore, and at present litigation, serious doubts about the nature of the costs incurred by these cards, because as has been revealed, their use does not appear related to representation expenses or from the exercise of the position held in the company, ‘said the judge in his car imputation.
Judge not convinced by the other version that were giving Blesa, Rato y Sánchez Barcoj in their statements as suspects, who said the cards were retribution and were created to cover expenses. “Nor is it understood why some of the beneficiaries failed to make use of them, or why most people did not come to exhaust the balance of cards which were beneficiaries [...] thus making an incomprehensible neglect of retribution, ‘said the judge
To clarify this point, the Court has called for next Friday to former cardholders who did not use them. former CEO Francisco Verdú; Esteban Tejera, currently exdirectivo in Mapfre; and Inigo Maria Aldaz, president of Caja Madrid General Insurance. Neither the deceased used his card exconsejero appointed by UGT, Manuel Sánchez Félix Acal. A priori, the judge showed some more in favor of imputing a crime of unfair administration to exconsejeros and undue appropriation exdirectivos weeks ago.
Since its complaint became known, former managers of Caja Madrid and Bankia have rushed to file appeals to the Court harshly criticizing the judge’s decision. Thus, José María Arteta, exconsejero appointed by the PSOE, said the judge forced the Penal Code “to the absolute limits’ in its complaint.
Meanwhile, the exdirectiva Elena Gil said the crime may have prescribed since stopped using the card more than ten years ago. This point is in the air as the prescription of crimes depends on its severity. For its part, the exconsejeros Rodolfo Benito (CCOO) and Gonzalo Martín Pascual (UGT) defended never perceived any hint of illegality on the card and accused Blesa, Sánchez Barcoj and former general secretary of the Fund, Enrique de la Torre, deceive.
Key Statements
Among the defendants who claim between now and Wednesday is mainly exconsejeros of the Madrid box. Among them José Antonio Moral Santin, who was appointed by the United Left (IU), who was vice president and one of the biggest spender with cards: 485,000 euros in ten years, with large withdrawals periodic cash from ATMs Box .
Other defendants who claim these days are Gerardo Diaz Ferran, who was counselor to the CEOE; Estanislao Rodríguez Ponga, former Secretary of State for Finance; Carmen Cafranga, former president of the Caja Madrid Foundation until the scandal became known cards; and Arturo Fernández, president of CISM.
Eyewitness Friday will also be key. Apart from those who did not use the cards come Terceiro, who has tried to point Blesa as the creator of the cards, one version that Judge Andreu not give credibility a priori; and Iñaki Azaola, Director of Internal Audit Bankia and author of the report that the defenses of the defendants seek to dismantle.
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