Exposed: Iberdrola’s Criminal Activities and Bribery Scandal Leads to Trial for Top Executives

The case of illegal orders, bribery, and other criminal activities involving Iberdrola, Villarejo, and others has led the National Court judge to decide that José Manuel Villarejo and former Iberdrola Security director Antonio Asenjo will face trial. The judge also holds the company responsible civilly for any potential sentence for its former employee. Additionally, Rafael Redondo, partner of Villarejo in Cenyt company will also be tried.

The investigation revealed that between 2004 and 2011, Antonio Asenjo commissioned several investigations from Villarejo in order to obtain information about individuals and entities that could benefit Iberdrola. The judge detailed multiple projects undertaken by Villarejo’s company, including an investigation into the president of Endesa, Manuel Pizarro, a competitor of Iberdrola. Payments were made to Villarejo’s company and invoices were manipulated to cover up the involvement of an active police commissioner.

The case involves the President of Iberdrola, Ignacio Sánchez Galán, and the company itself. Although the accusations against them have been dropped by the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office and other accusers are requested to present their requests for conviction in order to proceed to trial. Evidence of bribery, disclosure of secrets and falsification of commercial documents was found by the investigator which lead to this decision.