The president of the Generalitat Jordi Pujol appeared calm yesterday after learning of the progress of investigations and court prosecutor to clarify the origin and location of the hidden fortune abroad, and unreported for 34 years.
Pujol and his wife Marta Ferrusola showed themselves again yesterday in the village of Queralbs, gerundese in the Pyrenees, where the marriage has a summer residence. However, the family patriarch avoided responding to questions from reporters, ensuring that “I do not hide, but not about making statements every few minutes.”
Pujol, who came out yesterday to walk from his home to visit friends, would not answer if you are preparing to citation received Friday from the Tax Office and to the request of the judge of Barcelona instructing the complaint union Clean Hands accounts to hide millions abroad, which, he confessed, came from an inheritance left him by his father Florenci Pujol at death, in September 1980
Catalan exmandatario itself admitted Friday he has received, handheld two officers who came to his home, a citation of the Inland Revenue, but declined to specify neither the place nor the day when he had been summoned.
The Most
From way back, the High Court of Justice of Catalonia reported that the magistrate judge 31 Barcelona, which instructs to open proceedings Jordi Pujol and his wife Marta Ferrusola by hiding a fortune abroad, was required to provide his father’s will and accepting extra inheritance received by it.
The judge also agreed to the adoption of the measures requested by the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor, including referral letters rogatory to authorities Andorra and Switzerland report on bank accounts and corporate real estate and the Ferrusola Pujol family, seven children, may have in these countries.
The PP, on behalf of the commission
The Popular Party spokesman in Parliament, Enric Millo, yesterday was “inevitable” that will eventually create a commission parliamentary inquiry into the ‘case Pujol’, because the latter ‘overflows’ tax fraud committed by the family of former and can be linked to “corrupt practices”.
According Millo said to EFE, the confession made by Pujol ‘is a story that has hurt us all, “but believes that appear before the Parliament on 2 September and” be aware of the relevant circumstances. ” “I am confident that he will appear for all Catalans deserve an explanation beyond a simple letter of confession, because Catalonia was ruling 23 years,” he said.
The spokesman considered, however, that regardless of his appearance is necessary that a commission of inquiry is believed “and not just on Pujol case, but for many reasons.” Meanwhile, the spokesman Ciutadans in Parliament, Carina Mejias said yesterday that “the ‘case Pujol’ shows that the nationalists’ independence is the opportunity to make a profitable nation building personal business” and that “the institutionalized corruption takes many years in Catalonia and in the rest of Spain. “
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