Oleguer Pujol Ferrusola personally initialed the purchase of 1,152 offices of Banco Santander 2,177,382,975.33 euros with only 35 years using the address of the house of his father.
The youngest son of former Catalan regional president materialized operation on behalf of society Samos General Services , made just a month before, and hanging from a holding company based in the Netherlands Antilles and ending in Luxembourg Islands Channel . This company had no employees at the time of closing this sale and hired only available a few months later
Samos General Services is owned by the Dutch company St Midco Holdings BV, which in turn depends on the St Topco Luxembourg.
Pujol Ferrusola, speaking as representative of the first institutions, Samos General Services, based in the number 44 of Madrid’s Alcala street, facilitated by a notary and registered number 96 Ronda General Mitre Barcelona, although on that date no longer lived at home with their parents and was living in Madrid.
Through Samos, part of a conglomerate named Drago Group Oleguer Pujol Ferrusola bought property in a central Madrid notary on 23 November 2007 thus consummating one of the largest real estate transactions in recent years in Spain and, undoubtedly, the most important clan related Catalan few currently investigating Justice.
WORLD has had access to the document certifying the personal intervention of Pujol Ferrusola in this operation, in which the anti-corruption prosecutor and warns evidence of a continuing offense of money laundering linked to another against the Treasury.
The Public Ministry has entrusted the investigation to the prosecutor Jose Grinda, suspected that the minor clan has introduced in this and other large real estate transactions funds of illicit origin hidden in the Channel Islands Mancha that are under the control of the Pujol family in the islands of Guernsey and Jersey.
The researchers also suspect that this hidden capital flow has been driven at all times by international figurehead hired by the Catalan clan in London: Herbert Arthur Joseph Rainford , which is responsible moving the money through Pujol society Balcombe Holdings Limited.
As stated in the documentation to which this newspaper has had access, payment articulated by Pujol Ferrusola held upon signature by an initial transfer of 2,059,573,938.79 euros to a current account at Banco Santander. This was followed by other income of 117,809,036.54 euros at the same bank deposit.
The pact established between Oleguer Ferrusola Pujol and Banco Santander stated that the first can not “convey property for competitors. “ That is, to” anyone who controls or is controlled by a financial institution (bank, savings bank, etc) to conduct retail banking in Spain or owned by the retail banking branch of a financial institution to develop the retail banking business in any country in the OECD (Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development) or in China. ”
Economic Crime Unit and Tax (UDEF) said in the complaint that initiated the investigation against Corruption little son of Pujol that “Spanish enterprises run / managed by Oleguer Pujol often BV have a company based in the Netherlands , which is owned by another / society s / he is rooted / s screen in Luxembourg and whose managers or administrators are usually residing in London “as its sole shareholder.
- Clean Hands The union intends to submit in the coming days a new Anti-Corruption Prosecution documentation related to the operations of the youngest son of the Pujol family and has already announced that he was witnessing at the judicial process that is expected to start after they finish the proceedings initiated by the prosecutor Jose Grinda. This organization, headed by Miguel Bernad, has appointed legal Virginia Lopez Negrete to take charge of this matter, in which it tries to determine the offenses of laundering and tax fraud laundering by Oleguer Pujol Ferrusola. The objective scores Clean Hands involves determining whether the funds used by the companies Drago Catalan Capital Group originated in the collection of fees by the former president of the Generalitat.
Police stressed, in reference to this clearly opaque structure, which “does not seem consistent with normal business practice” employed “companies in territory offshore, multiple front companies in Luxembourg, the Netherlands and London “ unless” there is a hidden intention of hindering the exact content of the operations “.
Also remember that the Penal Code punishes offenses against the Treasury with sentences of between three and five years when “the real taxpayer is hidden” and that, if confirmed commission thereof by Oleguer Pujol Ferrusola, “there would be no doubt” that it would entail to one of “self-laundering”.
In the case of the operation of the offices of Banco Santander, the son Jordi Pujol proceeded under after purchasing offices to subscribe a lease agreement with the financial institution itself for a period of 25 years .
This agreement stated that Santander could extend the contract for three consecutive periods of seven years each, reserving the end of each contract “an option to purchase office market price resulting at that time. “
The annual rent for the entire office exceeds EUR 100 million and both sides agreed that the costs of administration, upkeep and maintenance would be borne the lessee.
Along with this purchase, Anticorruption tracks for the same crimes buying historical property of Grupo Prisa, 105 branches of Bankia and buildings in Melilla and the Canary Islands . Overall, operations totaling 3,000 million euros.
Prior to these investigations, Oleguer Pujol Ferrusola, as revealed THE WORLD, decided to invoke the special amnesty launched by Minister Cristobal Montoro to regularize 3.1 million that remained hidden in tax havens.
But the Oleguer himself has acted in recent weeks to stabilize, with his parents and siblings, a tiny part of fortune I kept hidden in an Andorran bank. This time Oleguer no longer provide the address of their parents to the authorities, but their own in Barcelona despite residing in the capital of Spain.
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