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Only one day after saying he was “at the disposal of any legal or tax entity wants to call me,” the president of the Generalitat Jordi Pujol yesterday received news of both. The head of the magistrate court 31 Barcelona, which investigates tax fraud confessed by Pujol maintain a fortune abroad investigates tax fraud confessed by Pujol maintain a fortune abroad, sent letters rogatory to Swiss authorities and Andorra. The goal is for financial institutions in both countries report on bank accounts or financial instruments of any kind on behalf of the Pujol family or those listed as authorized. In turn, two officials from the tax office came to his summer residence Queralbs town of Girona (Girona) to deliver a subpoena.
The judge also required to Pujol contribution to the will of his father Florenci and acceptance of his heritage that made him and his wife, Marta Ferrusola. In the statement given to the press in which Pujol confessed to the July 25 tax evasion money he had attributed the overseas-not specified the amount or the country to an inheritance from his father, who left this Ferrusola Marta and seven siblings:. Jordi, Josep, Marta, Pere, Oriol, Mireia and Oleguer
In addition, the judge has asked Treasury income tax statements and capital to have allegedly submitted Pujol, his wife and seven children. These must be accompanied by all documentation delivered to regularize the Pujol these funds, allowing de facto yields opaque hidden abroad.
In this way, the judge has begun against whom the investigation had embodied one of the most emblematic institutions of Catalonia, former President Pujol and his wife, Marta Ferrusola. The case was opened following a complaint against the Clean Hands pseudosindicato both on charges of bribery, breach of trust, embezzlement, insider trading, tax fraud, forgery of documents and money laundering after making public confession. The complaint entered in court on July 31, and almost in unison, the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office requested the first steps, now the judge has ordered.
Pujol, 84, lives apart in the Catalan Pyrenees the earthquake that has caused his confession. At half past eleven yesterday, two officials of the Inland Revenue rose nearly running slope that leads to his home in Queralbs. Shortly thereafter, the president went back to wander around the village of 185 inhabitants, and said he had gone to deliver a summons to go to account to the Treasury. But he declined to provide further details. “I said what I had to say, today I will not say any more, do me a favor and let me quiet now” finished
An attitude that is far from the one showed on Thursday.. Yesterday, accompanied by Marta Ferrusola, which had not yet been allowed to see the town, refused to talk to reporters. On Thursday broke the silence 13 days after his confession, getting a “lay of any legal or tax institution.” Although it did not reveal whether is scheduled to appear in the Catalan Parliament. “We will see,” he said.
Pujol tarnished his legacy last July 25, when he admitted that he had had an inheritance from his father for 34 years without declaring and in all that time “was not found never the right time to regularize “. Until that day, he had refused both publicly and privately the different information that pointed to possible fraudulent business by his family.
The political and judicial reactions were swift. Convergence and Union, the party of which has been banner and icon, announced by the President of the Generalitat, Artur Mas, Pujol renounced all honorary offices, as well as the condition of molt honorable . But he also said that Pujol left all privileges enjoyed by its former condition. Which means that not attend any meeting more of his party, you will not receive a pension of 86,418 per year, will leave the office on Passeig de Gràcia in Barcelona and will have no official or chauffeur car.
In July, the High Court Judge Pablo Ruz summoned to testify as a defendant in the following September, the firstborn from the Pujol, Jordi Pujol Ferrusola, and his wife, Mercè Gironès accused of money laundering and tax evasion.
For more than a year ago, Pujol Ferrusola Ruz investigates a complaint because of his girlfriend, Maria Victoria Alvarez, who accused him of carrying bags with 500 euro to Andorra. Ruz was also called the Principality of the firstborn accounts.
The investigations in both Barcelona and Madrid seek to elucidate the origin of a fortune that is allegedly moved abroad, avoiding all the legal checks and tax obligations. Pujol father sang a mea culpa in his confession, which sought to protect their children. “From the facts described and all its consequences alone am responsible, and I want to show it publicly,” he said in that statement, in which he attributed the inheritance money surfaced Florenci grandfather. He added that the situation of children and his wife has been regularized in additional income statements.
But the police-through of a report submitted to court Ruz- UDEF suspected of that money, at least you received the firstborn from the Pujol, actually comes from the payment of hidden commissions as commissioned works Pujol Ferrusola that were never performed.
In addition, the Prime Minister, Mariano Rajoy said yesterday that he did not speak the Pujol case with the King at their meeting at the palace Marivent reports Andreu Manresa . “Pujol said he was at the disposal of justice and the State Tax Agency. He logically be who can explain what he sees fit to give explanations or who is requesting them, “Rajoy, who declined to say in the matter said.
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