The term of Jordi Pujol i Soley, chairman of Catalonia between 1980 and 2003, is discussed in the National Court . Judge Pablo Ruz has accumulated in the last year and a half numerous indications of embezzlement involving Ferrusola Jordi Pujol, Catalan president’s eldest son and charged in the case, and put under suspicion managing CiU governments for 23 years.
Catalan president confessed in late July after a tax evasion continued since 1980 when his father died Florenci Pujol, who allegedly left him an inheritance for their children exclusively behind his sister. His admission of guilt triggered all kinds of speculations about the illegal origin of a fortune never declared to the tax authorities. Month and a half after the confession, the eldest son of Pujol should respond in the High Court on the enrichment of three of his companies (i Holdings Marketing Initiatives, Marketing Project and Active Cat Translation) Monday between 2004 and 2012 during this period accounts recorded revenues of 27 large amounts of money by a dozen companies, all contractors of the Government.
The managers of these companies could not justify to the police the real reason for the payments to Jordi Pujol Ferrusola. Assumptions advice of the eldest son of former electrical networks in Gabon, sale of solar plants, buy office, expansion of refineries or implementation of technological systems in Mexico were not such as the police investigation.
simulated all these papers, Pujol Ferrusola entered nearly eight million in the accounts of the three companies. Furthermore, two real estate transactions favored by managers CiU allowed the eldest son of former achieve a gain of eight million euros.
Some of the bites that police complaint in report submitted to the judge correspond to 3% of the total amount of simulated operation which took Jordi Pujol Ferrusola. The 3% is the symbol of suspected corruption that haunts CiU governments since the socialist president Pascual Maragall denounce charging illegal fees in full by the Catalan parliament.
In addition to research Pablo Ruz in the national Court, another judge, María Josep Canadell Pijuan instructor Palau case , regarded as established that the Ferrovial-Agroman company paid kickbacks for awarding public works of the Government of the Democratic Convergence Catalonia, Jordi Pujol party whose headquarters is embargoed for this cause pending trial. The bite, s ccording to the judge, accounted for 4% of the amount of the awarded work: 2.5% for Convergence and the remaining 1.5% for managers of Palau who acted as intermediaries in this operating illegal financing of a political party. Ferrovial paid commissions of 4%, according to the judge, for the award of the work of a section of Line 9 of the Barcelona Metro (at a cost of 178 million euros); the construction of the City of Justice (52 million), a pavilion in Sant Cugat del Vallès (four million) and a ditch on the left bank of the Ebro River (2.6 million). In the Palau case are charged a extesorero Convergència, Ferrovial executives and exresponsables of Palau.
In the case Ferrusola Pujol, according to the report police commissioned Judge Pablo Ruz, paying kickbacks to contractors of the Government benefited the eldest son of the former president.
Jordi Pujol and his wife Mercé Ferrusola Gironès judge must explain to the 118 movements of money 32.4 million euros they did between 2004 and 2012 through three different banks (BBVA, Credit Suisse and Mediolanum) departing from or arriving in Andorra, Luxembourg, Croatia, Argentina, Uruguay, Switzerland, United States, Mexico, France, Cayman Islands, United Kingdom, Liechtenstein and Gabon. In two of these countries, Argentina and Mexico, Jordi Pujol Ferrusola invested large amounts of money on a hotel and a marina.
Judge Pablo Ruz began investigating this case in January 2013 following the complaint filed by Maria Victoria Alvarez, Jordi Pujol Ferrusola ex-girlfriend. Since then, the judge has put together a number of prosecutors and police reports credited Jordi Pujol how Ferrusola took bribes to companies that had managed multimillion contracts for the Catalan CiU mandates prior to 2003.
Maria Victoria Alvarez complained to the judge that Jordi Pujol Ferrusola had taken six years 400,000 euros in 500 notes Andorra and had entered Madrid. The magistrate has asked the authorities of Andorra accounts data Ferrusola Jordi Pujol and his wife. The information does not arrive within a month.
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