Madrid (EFE).- The National Court has sentenced commissioner José Manuel Villarejo to 19 years in prison for revealing company secrets in the Iron piece and private secrets in the Land piece, as well as for falsifying a commercial document.
This is the first sentence against Villarejo in the so-called Tandem case, in which the magistrates of the Fourth Section of the Criminal Chamber of the National Court have acquitted him of bribery in the aforementioned pieces and of extortion in the degree of conspiracy in the third trial, called Painter.
In the so-called Tandem case, the contracting of the Villarejo company, Cenyt, to carry out certain orders is investigated.
In total, 26 people have been tried, in addition to Villarejo, including his partner Rafael Redondo, who has been sentenced to 13 years in prison for the same crimes as the commissioner.
Nine other people have been sentenced to between three months and two years in prison, while 16 have been acquitted, including Villarejo’s wife, Gema Alcalá, and their son, José Manuel Villarejo Gil, as well as police officers Constancio Riaño and Antonio Bonilla. In the case of Enrique García Castaño, he was excluded from the trial due to illness.
The sentence, of 351 pages, considers that it cannot be convicted of bribery since the requirements of this criminal type do not meet given that the acts carried out by Villarejo “did not carry out them in the exercise of his position nor were they related to his public activities”.