Jordi Pujol Ferrusola arrives at the High Court to declare. / Claudio Alvarez
Jordi Pujol Ferrusola , the eldest son of the president of the Generalitat, has responded for about five hours to questions from the judge of the Audiencia Nacional, Pablo Ruz, and the tax on the origin of his fortune. Pujol has left Ferrusola Hearing the edge of four in the afternoon on a, accompanied by his lawyer taxi, so that no measures against him involving deprivation of liberty.
Jordi Pujol Ferrusola came this morning quietly in the High Court, accompanied by his lawyer, Christopher Martell and a third unidentified person to testify as a defendant by charging more than eight million different companies with interests in Catalonia for jobs that are not properly justified. Pujol Ferrusola answered for four hours to questions from the judge, and for another hour to the questions of other parties to the proceedings: attorney, law of the State and its defense.
His ex-wife, Mercé Gironés, charged for the same crimes that Ferrusola Pujol (to appear in many of the transactions investigated by Ruz) 1530 has come past the hearing. He was quoted at 16.00. The judge called both to declare four days after the president of the Generalitat confessed on July 25 in a statement that he had kept hidden a fortune abroad, which linked to an inheritance from his father.
Before the judge Ferrusola Pujol has been questioned about the 118 movements of money for 32.4 million euros that he and his wife made between 2004 and 2012 through three different banks (BBVA, Credit Suisse and Mediolanum) with exit or destination in Andorra, Luxembourg, Croatia, Argentina, Uruguay, Switzerland, United States, Mexico, France, Cayman Islands, United Kingdom, Liechtenstein and Gabon. In Argentina and Mexico, Jordi Pujol Ferrusola invested large amounts of money on a hotel and a marina. By going as a defendant, the son of former Catalan is not obliged to answer questions put to them or has an obligation to tell the truth, as is the case with witnesses
Ferrusola Pujol, his face hidden behind sunglasses and a charcoal gray suit, the taxi came out so fast that nobody was able to identify at first. At the door of the courthouse waiting for him fifty journalists and a heavy police deployment.
The judge is still waiting to receive the information requested to Andorra on the accounts of the son of the president of the Generalitat, and on which the judge who handles the letters rogatory Ruz has warned that only if the links will facilitate laundering offenses and other tax corruption or influence peddling and collecting kickbacks.
Drawing the appearance of Ferrusola Pujol, deputy spokesman of the PP in Congress, Rafael Hernando, pointed out that although some Catalan politicians have launched the message that “Spain robs us” did so to hide those who actually stole “were they” an attitude that has seen doubly serious.
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