The Pujol would be the seventh richest in Spain ‘Forbes list’ – World

The Pujol would be the seventh richest in Spain 'Forbes list' – World

the many recognitions that over the years the family has received Pujol Catalan society, he might have added one more, in the event that his vast fortune would have been known by all and preferably legal. 1,800 million euros, according to the police investigation, the clan hiding in various tax havens, would have allowed Jordi Pujol and children entering the prestigious list of Forbes of the most richest in the world, published since 1986.

Among the 600 ° and 700 ° as in the computation of the wealthiest on the planet, but a more than creditable seventh place in the ranking of the largest fortunes of Spain . One more reason of pride for the family. The former president of the Generalitat, a symbol Catalonia and even outside it after being 23 years in office, this is codearía so visibly with big business in the country. With only oddity that he would be the only politician in an exclusive list of successful men and women, dedicated to business, many of them self-made, whose money comes from the conduct of its business, and further of which have demonstrated the ability to manage them.

No heirlooms through and the only platform gowns shop La Coruna , Amancio Ortega has managed to be the richest Spanish in Spain and the third man with more money in the world, with an estimated 61,800 million (46,110 million euros ) heritage.

In the national list, six steps below the Pujol family, who Police think you have managed his fortune as a result “of all kinds of alleged criminal actions” would stand derived from “the privileged status counts in Catalonia.” According to calculations by the judicial officers, 1,800 million euros (2,400 million dollars) that presumably have left the collection of fees in exchange for awards of contracts during the six legislatures Generalitat Jordi Pujol ruled.

before him in the 2014 ranking of Forbes magazine located in Spain to the daughter of the founder of Inditex, with 5.900 million (4.402 million euros); Isak Andic, owner of Mango, with 5.500 million (4.103 million euros), and Juan Roig , Mercadona, with $ 4.700 million (3.506 million euros). Ferrovial chairman Rafael del Pino y Calvo-Sotelo , which holds assets of $ 3,500 million (€ 2,611 m) ranks fifth.

Passed the top of the Spanish table with more than 1,000 million dollars, from the fifth clan Pujol hollow blocks without difficulty among the largest fortunes in the country. No company known beyond the business of children isolated, only exceeded Daniel Maté family , executive Basque province linked to Glencore, whom Forbes attributes capital $ 2,700 million (2,014 million euros). Immediately after the Pujol enter if the money that the police believed that hide outside Spain had a legal origin, as they try to maintain.

Former president of the Generalitat buried on 25 July in a brief statement of his career genuine representative of Catalan nationalism and statesman. The political genius hiding an important secret. Just days after WORLD unveiled his family joined 3.4 million euros in Andorra in a single month, Pujol admitted that keeping money out of Spain fruit after his release, the inheritance from his father. An alleged 30-year heritage silenced even his own sister know.

With two of his sons accused – Oriol for allegedly taking bribes in the call frame of ITV and Jordi by Andorra-money and other investigated, the former president and his family now face a full investigation that will eventually reveal how much money have remained outside the control of the Spanish Treasury and what is their origin.

Had obtained his fortune based of effort and work, Jordi Pujol would be accompanied on the hit list Forbes , in positions 8 and 9, of the same economic entrepreneurs Manuel Jove level 2,400 million euros (1,790 million euros) or Juan Abelló , with the same heritage.