The Prosecution calls on Treasury’s statements Pujol family – País.com (Spain)

The Prosecution calls on Treasury's statements Pujol family – País.com (Spain)

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Anticorruption Prosecutor has requested the trial court number 31 of Barcelona, ​​which instructs the complaint against Clean Hands Catalan president Jordi Pujol i Soley, practicing a series of steps to clarify what happened in relation to an alleged regularization of an estate to the Treasury unreported for 34 years.

The prosecutor asks the judge claiming of The Tax Office any additional or special statements for income tax or wealth tax have presented both the president Jordi Pujol i Soley, and his wife, Marta Ferrusola, and their children, Jordi, Josep, Marta, Pere, Oriol, and Mireia Oleguer and all documentation if have accompanied them.

Anticorruption Prosecutors also asked the judge to order a letter rogatory to the competent authorities of the Principality of Andorra to performing the necessary arrangements with financial institutions located in that country for bank accounts or financial instruments of any kind on behalf of the members of the Pujol family-Ferrusola. It also requests the same management for the Swiss

authorities, suspecting that Catalan president and his sons had bank accounts in that country.

The Pujol president issued a statement in which he confessed that for 34 years remained hidden abroad fortune left him by his father, without specifying the amount thereof.

In the High Court, Judge Pablo Ruz investigated for over a year the eldest son of former Catalan for an alleged offense of money laundering. A report requested by Ruz Economic Crime Unit and Tax Police (UDEF) points to the existence of charging large amounts of money (more than eight million euros) by three companies owned by Jordi Pujol Ferrusola exchange nonexistent services to 17 contractors companies Catalan public administrations.