Jordi Pujol Ferrusola, eldest son of former President of the Generalitat, next to his car in the ‘rally’ Paris Barcelona-Dakar in 1997. / Toni Garriga (AP)
Judge Pablo Ruz, which investigates Ferrusola Jordi Pujol and his wife, Merce Gironés Riera, for alleged money laundering and against the Treasury received several weeks ago a devastating report Crime Unit Economic and Tax (UDEF) on alleged illegal commissions paid to 17 private companies, all government contractors in Catalonia, three companies of the son of former Catalan president for fake services. In four years, these three companies entered the 17 private companies over eight million.
For four months, the UDEF investigated by Judge Pablo Ruz, the source of income of these three companies formed by Jordi Pujol marriage and Merce Ferrusola Gironés. To create the work, police interviewed dozens of entrepreneurs who had paid Pujol Ferrusola or who had participated in the operations for which it had charged the son of former Catalan president. In the vast majority of cases, the police found that employers did not provide any documentation of their business dealings with Jordi Pujol Ferrusola not remembered the advice provided or nonexistent contracts had incredible work.Here are some examples that the report relates.
»EMTE and friendship with former President Pujol
Jordi Pujol Ferrusola billed to your company 154,000 euros Cat Project Marketing EMTE between 2008 and 2009. This company, owned by Carles Sumarroca Coixet, “since ancient times has had ties to the president Jordi Pujol i Soley and whose companies have strong business income public life,” recalls the police, Pujol Ferrusola paid for consulting services for implantation in Mexico in the field of information systems and technology. The CEO of the company told police who ignored business relations with Jordi Pujol Ferrusola and could not provide nor knew if there was a document attesting to the provision of services for which the eldest son of former Catalan would have charged these 154,000 euros.
EMTE then wrote back to the police that he had no invoices or documents “given the time”.
»Group Copisa
Between 2008 and 2009, two companies of Jordi Pujol Ferrusola billed half dozen companies of this business group, to 3,590,000 euros by motley concepts:
– “Management, assists and negotiations you performed during the contract signing of C-10 expansion project at the refinery of Cartagena and the mechanical mounting of the unit Hidrocraquer 651 “
-” Steps intermediation in buying plots located in Terrassa Hospitalet and “
-.” Intermediation in buying offices in Madrid “
-” Steps in the sale of shares in the company Country Club and Golf de Ronda “
– “Consulting and brokering the sale of solar plants in Alcazar de San Juan and Pedro Muñoz” other actions
After talking with managers or representatives from different companies, research. argues that the police Copisa Group paid by Jordi Pujol Ferrusola “simple telephone calls informing about specific business opportunities, no need to do any work or social headquarters.” Police shows his surprise at the trade relationship Copisa with companies of the eldest son of former President of Catalonia, “Never the amount or form of payment that would indemnify services Jordi Pujol Ferrusola was documented in advance, no prior contract percentages of turnover. Once you got the business in question, there was a time when state employers as a process of discussion about the amount would have to be received by Jordi Pujol Ferrusola. “
To justify the payments, the companies Copisa Group did not provide documents “in which evidence of any actual work could be left as emails, justifications experience Jordi Pujol Ferrusola in each of the materials, expenditures, progress reports …,” the report said.UDEF Researchers are surprised that Jordi Pujol Ferrusola could be expert in matters as diverse as “real estate brokerage in different parts of Spain, the oil refinery business, the development of photovoltaic plants or acting as broker specialist purchase shares of various corporations. “Police report submitted to the judge considers that Jordi Pujol Ferrusola charged for doing nothing and he cites a service for which he billed 1.1 million.
The contract justifying such payment, photocopying the report states that “José Coronado Mateu pay 1.1 million euros to Jordi Pujol Ferrusola to negotiate with José Coronado Mateu the execution of works. “
In the police investigation is highlighted, for example, a job counseling Jordi Pujol Ferrusola to purchase an office building in Madrid. The seller of the property told police that there was any middle of the operation, he did not talk with Jordi Pujol Ferrusola nor knows him and he simply put an ad in the newspaper and tell the concierge of the building to advertise that his property was for sale. “
Copisa Group donated 60,000 euros to Trias Fargas Foundation, next to Democratic Convergence of Catalonia, and participated, among others, in the works of the Palau de la Música City of Justice and Line 9 of the Barcelona Metro.
Most of the efforts made by the police to clarify why Jordi Pujol claimed Ferrusola concepts of different companies arrive at the same point.
quoted Judge Ruz to declare the eldest son of the Catalan president next September 16 to try to clarify this point and ordered a rogatory commission to apply to the judicial authorities of all documentation Andorra Banking Private Andorra on banking products or funds that have been beneficiaries Jordi Pujol Ferrusola, his wife, Merce Gironés Riera and businesses both.
The judge has ordered the investigation after the statement issued the Jordi Pujol i Soley president which stated that his children and his wife had regularized some funds, whose origin was an inheritance from his father, who had never declared to the Treasury.
Prosecutors asked the judge this research since in the case opened 19 months ago by Jordi Pujol Ferrusola no evidence that this has presented some special tax return funds to regularize, according to his father, are in Andorra.
Judge Pablo Ruz investigates Jordi Pujol Ferrusola following a complaint by his ex-lover, Maria Victoria Alvarez Martin, which claimed that he had seen this in the car the eldest son of former Catalan backpack with 500 euro on a trip they made together from Lleida to Madrid , through Andorra
Luxury at a bargain price. a Jaguar, 3,000 euros
J. D / R JM, Madrid
Another noteworthy in the report of the Economic Crime Unit and Tax (UDEF) aspect is the fleet of luxury vehicles having Jordi Pujol Ferrusola acquired and that price bargain.
A Jaguar FFY, from an EU country, was acquired for $ 3,000 cash. Police emphasized that this vehicle is worth on the market for resale 80,000 euros, although there are units that reach 240.00 euros in 2006, when it was purchased. “One might assume the existence of other amounts paid by said Jaguar, which have not been reported, taking advantage of this is a business owner,” said the police.
In 2001 purchased a Porsche 911 2,800 euros. The citizen who sold it has declared that he did it for such a low price because the car was used and the engine is “not very good”. The firstborn of the president of the Generalitat took a Ferrari for only 20,000 euros. Dreams have stated that a dealer sold a Lamborghini Diablo Pujol 132 SE for 25,000 euros, despite the fact that they had cost 126,000 euros. According to them, “was sold at such a low price because it failed to sell and were left with no choice.” The owner of another dealer delivered a Mercedes Benz McLaren SRL Pujol in exchange for 90,000 euros, despite it had cost him 575,000. Why did such a nefarious operation? “I needed the money,” merely answered the vendor. The elder Pujol took a brand new Ferrari testarossa by 22,500 euros. Another time, he got a Porsche 911 and a Ferrari 328 for a total amount of 35,000 euros. Apart from that, the police investigators highlight the “foreign” insurance premiums paid by Pujol has its automobile fleet Over the past four years. Only 45.02 euros for each of the following vehicles: Mercedes Pagoda, a Porsche 011 and a Lotus Elan. It has also paid 60 euros for a Ferrari F40. Police say all vehicles are insured Lyberty Insurance, “denoting the premiums set by the insurance are the least strange, being much lower than the market, paying only a token amount, which could be related to a fixed contribution of the insurer or the like. “
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