Madrid, December 15 (EFE). – The retired police commissioner José Manuel Villarejo is again in the dock this Monday for another alleged economic espionage, in this case against Joaquín Molpeceres, former president of the Tennis Federation and linked to the sports sector.
The National Court begins a new trial in the Tándem case, in which the Grass project is being judged. Prosecutors are requesting that Villarejo be sentenced to 12 years in prison for bribery, discovery and disclosure of secrets, and falsehood in a business document.
In addition to the commissioner, his partner Rafael Redondo and the businessman who is said to have hired him to spy on his ex-father-in-law Molpeceres, Antonio Erico Chávarri, owner of the company Acisclo Gestión de Patrimonies, which went bankrupt in 2012, is also accused.
According to the prosecutor’s preliminary conclusions, the businessman commissioned him to find out the relationships between Joaquín Molpeceres and the bankruptcy trustee of the case, and the police officer and his partner would have managed to take over the call traffic between these two people, a project for which they would have billed 411,400 euros.
This new trial comes shortly after it was announced that the Appeals Chamber of the National Court acquitted Villarejo of espionage work that he was accused of carrying out for Repsol and CaixaBank with the aim of obtaining information from the former president of Sacyr Luis del Rivero, for which he was sentenced to eight years in prison.
This is his third acquittal in the cases before the National Court after those against the former president of Martinsa Fadesa and Real Madrid, Fernando Martín, and after a report on the Marbella businessman Felipe Gómez Zotano in connection with a financial dispute with a woman over a real estate matter.
However, at the trial for the Land, Iron and Pintor projects, he was sentenced to 19 years in prison, a sentence reduced by the Appeals Chamber to 13 years and to three years and one day for passive bribery, because he had irregularly investigated on behalf of Planeta in early 2014 and, as an active police officer, was one of the arbitrators of the arbitration award between this communications group and Kiss FM.
Villarejo still has to deal with dozens of court cases pending from the thirty parts into which this case has been divided, including the Kitchen case, in which he will share the bench with the internal leadership of the PP government of Mariano Rajoy over the alleged spying of the party’s former treasurer Luis Bárcenas. EFE
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