MADRID (Reuters) – Spain’s Excessive Court docket has dropped a proper investigation into the chairman of oil firm Repsol (OTC:) Antonio Brufau after it discovered no proof of his alleged participation in a decade-old spying case, a courtroom doc confirmed on Thursday.

The investigating decide Manuel Garcia Castellon additionally dismissed an investigation in opposition to former Caixabank’s chairman Isidro Faine and each corporations, Repsol and Caixabank.

The decide was investigating whether or not Repsol and Caixabank employed Grupo Cenyt, a safety agency belonging to former police chief Jose Manuel Villarejo, to spy on the then chairman of development firm Sacyr, Luis del Rivero, in 2011 and 2012.

Following the tip of investigations into Brufau and Faine, former police chief Villarejo and two former safety administrators at Repsol and Caixabank are poised to face trial in a number of months’ time for alleged spying.

Garcia Castellon beforehand closed the case for the 2 executives and the businesses in July, however the next courtroom reversed his determination in February. Below Spanish legislation, it’s nonetheless doable to attraction the decide’s newest determination.

Garcia Castellon mentioned each corporations complied with the necessities set out within the legislation to stop crimes and that “there is no such thing as a proof or suspicion” that Brufau or Faine knew concerning the hiring of Cenyt or Villarejo, the outcomes of the alleged spying or the funds allegedly made.

Caixabank and Repsol didn’t instantly return calls searching for remark.