Reuters, 16/02 22:21 CET
Barcelona, February 16 ( EFE ) .- The lawyer Francesc Cabana, brother of Jordi Pujol and one of the founders of Banca Catalana, said today that “not aware” that the origin of the fortune of former comes from an inheritance, and argued that there was “not a single corrupt transaction or personal use” in Banca Catalana.
Cabana has been alongside the veteran journalists and Ramon Ernesto Ekaizer Pedrós, one of those appearing this afternoon in a long session in the Parliament committee of inquiry on fraud and tax evasion that analyzes the case of Jordi Pujol.
husband of Maria Pujol Soley, sister of Catalan president has “jury” did not know of the existence of fortune four million euros in Andorran banks, and has even ruled that the Catalan President, Artur Mas, was aware of this.
“Neither we smelled” he recounted in relation to his wife and himself. “The knowledge of that fortune was locked in Ferrusola Pujol family, nine people. Do not think anyone else knew. And if we knew nothing, nobody knew more, starting goalkeeper Artur Mas or your home. Clearly (Mas), did not know “.
The brother of Jordi Pujol pointed to know the origin of that fortune and until confession” would have their hands in the fire for him, because (Jordi Pujol) was a man who did not care about the money. I do not know where it comes from, but we are not aware that comes from an inheritance or a legacy. “
In any case, Cabana Pujol has called a man of” simple life “and” thought alone the country, “so the first reaction that took after his confession was” incredulous, then indignant, and finally compassion “but said that” I would not say that it is a criminal. ” “But how come the end of an extraordinary life well finished?” He asked.
More critical is shown with the lifestyle of some of the children of Jordi Pujol, with which it had little relation, though he knew “were well off life”: “No law that a person who has a Ferrari, and my nephew seems to have one (referring to Jordi Pujol Ferrusola), go around the world in these times of crisis with a Ferrari. You laugh at the hungry “.
On the other hand, has argued that in Banca Catalana” there was never a single operation corrupt or personal gain “and denied that there was a” slush ” .
In any case, Cabana has denied Pujol’s fortune could come from the sale of shares of Banca Catalana, but acknowledged that until 1982 he “controlled what happened” but “after longer “.
On the other hand, journalist Ernesto Ekaizer said that in Catalonia there is a” crony capitalism “that benefited each other for many years, and included the usual payment of fees for award of work public.
In his appearance as an investigative journalist, has indicated that this “crony capitalism” made in Catalonia were accepted as normal certain unacceptable behaviors, and recalled how the judge was Luis Pascual Estevill convicted of corruption after maintaining a close relationship with CiU proposed by him in 1994 as a member of the General Council of the Judiciary.
Have you considered “too obvious” that in many procurement contracts underwritten public works Pujol time 3 percent commissions were paid, and mentioned the case of a businessman, who declined to identify.
“This -HA afirmado- employer told me that if failed to pay were dead economically Catalonia “, which has encouraged explore this avenue, since” not only to investigate corrupt, but also corrupting. “
In his opinion, the payment of commissions not only produced in Catalonia, but in this community “was a harmony with the state and respected,” precisely because there was this kind of relationship.
According Ekaizer when bursting onto the Catalan sovereignty such harmony process breaks and starts “a ‘dirty war’, sewers state open” to try to weaken (the process) with the revelation of corruption.
“, he added, is said, when the Catalan elections of November 2012 it disclosed the alleged corruption of the Pujol family and an account in a tax haven that had been the father of the president of the Generalitat, Artur Mas, this was from a report Unit Economic and Tax Crimes (Udef). “
” However, this was not true, “he pointed, but came” the CID “Interior Ministry.
Ekaizer has asked the Interior Minister Jorge Fernandez Diaz, “that is not fake and says it is investigating the president Mas, because it is already established that his ministry is asking the Interpol to investigate in Liechtenstein, and days later the investigation was closed without any result. “
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