Roures declares that 11,000 emails with sensitive information from Mediapro were stolen

The administrator of Mediapro, Jaume Roures, has explained in the trial for alleged espionage against him that the emails that were supposedly stolen from his corporate address, which he has quantified at more than 11,000, contained sensitive company information..

This was stated in the first session of the trial held today Tuesday in Criminal Court 20 of Barcelona, where Roures – who is acting as a private prosecutor and who today was the first witness to testify – has stated that the stolen emails contained information that It ranged from the bankruptcy that the company was facing when the events occurred, at least between 2009 and 2011, to “what was known at the time as the so-called football war”.

The Prosecutor's Office requests four years in prison and fines of 14,400 euros for a former head of Mediapro's IT department and for a person related to the company Bonus Sport Marketing (BSM), whom it accuses of having spied on emails for at least three years. from Roures.

Initially, Mediapro also complained about the alleged espionage against the former president of FC Barcelona Sandro Rosell – who had been the owner of BSM -, considering that it was related to the theft of emails, although the court that investigated the case closed the case. against him, a decision that was later endorsed by the Barcelona Court.

The Prosecutor's Office maintains in its indictment that Mediapro's IT manager “systematically” accessed Roures' corporate email account, without his consent, and made a copy of those messages he sent to people and entities “related to with his professional and personal sphere”. The computer scientist, adds the public ministry, sent the copies of those emails to the other defendant, who was interested in the messages related to the business activity of Mediapro, because he was dedicated to the same sector of sports marketing..

Roures has reiterated on several occasions that the accused former computer scientist had stolen 11,566 emails that came from his personal account, with “super sensitive information on the bankruptcy proceedings, the football war, relationships with lawyers”, among other issues.. Furthermore, he has stated that the information stolen from his account could be of interest to Barça, a sports entity with which the two defendants were professionally linked, by collecting economic activities of Mediapro, all of which were legal, as well as other relevant information..

The audiovisual businessman has also testified that he went to the office of the then president of FC Barcelona, Sandro Rosell, where the accused linked to BSM was also present, where they supposedly acknowledged that they had received those emails, but that they had deleted them..

For his part, the computer scientist – who has only answered questions from the defense lawyers – has acknowledged that he sent the emails from Roures' account to BSM addresses without his consent, although he has rejected the accusation that he The objective was to filter sensitive information. Furthermore, he has stated that he had a meeting with Roures, among others present, in which, according to his version, he felt coerced and in which he was supposedly pressured “to accuse Mr. Rosell of being the instigator or origin” of the alleged espionage.

In this Tuesday's session, Sandro Rosell also testified, explaining that he received Roures in his office, where the audiovisual businessman accused him of having spied on him and, after which, he stated that he told him: “If you renew my rights, I won't do anything to you from television”.

Regarding the computer scientist, he has testified that he knows that Mediapro's lawyers “put a lot of pressure on him” to try to get him to say “things that were not.”. As for the second defendant, the judge has allowed him to testify last, in a trial that will last throughout the week..