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Repsol chairman investigated again in alleged spying case

FILE PHOTO: Antonio Brufau, when chairman of Repsol, delivers a speech during the company's annual shareholders meeting in Madrid, Spain, May 19, 2017. REUTERS/Paul Hanna/File Photo

Spain's High Court on Monday placed Antonio Brufau, chairman of oil company Repsol, and Isidro Faine, former chairman of Spain's Caixabank, under formal investigation for a second time as part of a decade-old alleged spying case.

Last year, investigating judge Manuel Garcia Castellon dismissed a probe into Brufau, Faine, Repsol and Caixabank, but three different judges decided on Monday to accept appeals from the prosecutor, the former chairman of construction company Sacyr and left-wing political party Podemos.

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