Overview
- Anticorruption prosecutors submitted the written accusation on March 10 against 12 former BBVA executives and ex‑police officials and named BBVA as a corporate defendant over alleged use of Villarejo’s services to obtain confidential data on rivals, politicians and journalists from 2004 to 2016.
- For Francisco González, the filing applies five years for bribery and four years for each of 42 secrecy counts, with coverage variously totaling the request at 173 years or reporting a nine‑year term cited by Expansión.
- ABC notes Spain’s rule capping effective prison time at triple the most serious individual sentence, which would limit González’s potential confinement to about 15 years despite larger nominal sums.
- For BBVA as a legal person, prosecutors seek fines calculated at €5,000 per day for five years plus two additional years, reported as roughly €12.775 million in one account while ABC’s headline cites €181 million.
- The filing also requests that charges be dismissed for former CEO Ángel Cano, and it seeks prison for ex‑commissioner José Manuel Villarejo, with accounts citing either 10 or 174 years.