“I am available for any legal or tax entity wants to call me,” said Jordi Pujol yesterday. The president of the Generalitat broke his silence at his summer residence Queralbs, on the thirteenth day of confessing that during the last 34 years remained hidden millions in offshore accounts.
Pujol reappeared in the town of Girona Queralbs after being in hiding since the scandal broke investigated since last 1 anticorruption prosecution. The prosecution has asked former Treasury’s statements, his wife and seven children. In turn, a Barcelona judge has admitted a complaint against the union Clean Hands marriage Ferrusola Pujol-seven crimes.
Responding to questions from the many journalists who stood guard beside his summer residence, Pujol was referred to the content of public note in which he realized he had regularized family fortune and sang the mea culpa by did not find the time to do for 34 years.
The former “molt honorable” said nothing about the report that police estimated at at least 500 million fortune accumulated by the family of the Pujol in Andorra, in some accounts that have circulated 1,500 to 1,800 million of them heading to Luxembourg. Pujol has not yet decided whether to appear before Parliament to explain. “We shall see,” stated only yesterday Queralbs. The ex-president said he is “good” and justified the decision to issue the statement in which he confessed the hidden offshore accounts that he thought it was “good to make a clarification.”
“I feel good,” Pujol said. As for the economic crimes they plan now on he, his wife and two of his alleged children, expresident stated that this matter “and will arise” if necessary, but declined to comment on what he called “information”.
The expresident said he has not followed all that has been published since his confession and said he now wanted “a little quiet” Queralbs at his residence in the Pyrenees. Before talking to reporters, Pujol morning went to a downtown cafe of the small town where he was greeted by acquaintances. Regarding his immediate agenda, said he is “increasingly remote” and therefore has no public commitments.
From Cádiz, PP spokesman, Alfonso Alonso, considered “absolutely necessary for democratic hygiene appear Pujol of Catalonia” and asked the leader of the PSOE, Pedro Sánchez, who supports a commission of inquiry. He also demanded that, “as it says it is going to be ruthless with corruption,” requiring the Andalusian president, Susana Díaz, to explain in Parliament “what happened to the money from the training and with the ERE “.
The Socialist leader considered Ximo Puig Pujol explanations before the Parliament will not be enough to solve his confession on the holding of funds abroad, since this case is “a pump that affects the heart” CiU, the party that has ruled for more years in Catalonia. Waterfront ‘Spain robs us’, said that “anyone who has been robbed Pujol” and you have to get “to the bitter end” of the case and clarify all the details and implications.
The Minister of Territory Government, Santiago Vila, declared that Pujol has to give all the explanations and asked to identify responsibilities.
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