The judge Santiago Pedraz investigate Oleguer Pujol , son of former Catalan Jordi Pujol , by purchasing a Canary hotel money of unknown origin from the tax haven of the Virgin Islands, which could be constituted the crime of money laundering and against the Treasury.
The National Court judge has taken this decision in a car which has jurisdiction to investigate a complaint of You can and Guanyem Barcelona from the Pujol family, but only with respect to Oleguer Pujol , as outside the Anticorruption Prosecutor .
Pedraz has agreed to limit the investigation to obtain a significant amount of money whose origin is unknown by the defendant Oleguer Pujol and it came from the Virgin Islands .
That money was supposedly used to buy a hotel in Canary , with a value of eight million euros, according to the complaint.
We also investigate the involvement of the younger son of Jordi Pujol in companies in which some of the partners are commercial domiciled in Luxembourg and the Netherlands and other companies in which it participates “and / or listed as administrator through mercantile Drago Mediterranean Holding Cooperatief , constituted Netherlands and reminds the judge that such companies “often have arrays in the Netherlands Antilles,” also considered tax haven.
With regard to the other allegations of the complaint, in which the rest of the family Pujol for points, the judge ruled investigate what has already instructed in the Central Court number 5 the High Court and that affects the firstborn, Jordi Pujol Ferrusola , and in court 31 Barcelona, where Catalan president under investigation after confessing that he kept hidden a fortune abroad.
However, for this latter case, Pedraz not rule out that competition may be the High Court , however accurate with the information provided in the complaint, there is no basis for now to figure that, although the court in Barcelona may be inhibited if in the future “if it finds that the research data to determine the allocation of powers in favor of the National Court are released.”
As regards Oleguer Pujol Pedraz believes that the High Court has jurisdiction to investigate these facts have been committed abroad and because fraud may cause severe impact traffic in the trade and national economy.
however, believes the High Court is not competent to investigate other facts of the complaint as on society Europraxis Consulting Holding which was a partner Jordi Pujol Ferrusoka, which after its sale by 44 million euros to Indra won numerous public awards of the Generalitat of Catalonia.
While these facts, the judge said, could constitute an offense of trading in influence, data were insufficient to conclude that within the jurisdiction of this court, by suggesting that the complainants to report to the appropriate territorial court, to analyze data to determine if the jurisdiction of the High Court in this case are released.
Admitting this complaint admissible, the judge indicated that, being “identical interest” of the complainants can, and per Gaunyem Initiative Catalunya-Els Vers , which acceded to this demand, must exercise therefore a single class action represented by the same lawyer and attorney, and calls them a joint bail of 6,000 euros to formalize their personación.
The complaint described a corporate framework in which participate the family Pujol Ferrusola -namely the existence of 50 companies with a wide range of social-objects, whose business activities were linked with obtaining public works contracts awarded of the Generalitat of Catalonia, who chaired Jordi Pujol for 23 years.
That would be business network specialized in sectors as diverse as oil, wind or golf courses located throughout the Spanish geography, with companies even in Melilla or Las Palmas.
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