The prosecution attributes to the ‘ex-conseller’ and former deputy the fragmentation of contracts and subsidies under suspicion when he governed
The Court of Barcelona has ordered that the ‘exconseller’ be investigated Francesc Homs for the alleged diversion of funds for the international promotion of the ‘procés’. The court of the Eighth Section has annulled the filing order on the former deputy that was issued by the Court of Instruction number 8 of the Catalan capital, which instructs the case in which the ‘ex-conseller’ Raül Romeva, the former general secretary of the Diplocat, appears as accused Albert Royo and other senior officials of the Generalitat. Homs has denied to EL PERIÓDICO any irregularity and has defended that it always acted in accordance with the law.
The investigating judge Carmen Garcia Martinez dismissed in his day charging Homs for the acts attributed to him by the Barcelona Public Prosecutor’s Office in his complaint, understanding that they were not criminal in nature, nor that the expenses paid exceeded the framework of powers of the Generalitat in foreign action or were related to the ‘procés’. However, now the Barcelona Court has rejected this argument and maintains that the ‘exconseller’ must be, from the outset, investigated to clarify whether or not he has committed a crime.
Judge García Martínez, according to legal sources, has referred the parties involved in the case, both the prosecution and the defense, to decide whether the investigations against Homs should be carried out in a separate piece from the main one, the At the same time, it corroborates that, according to her, the behaviors under suspicion are not related to acts abroad in favor of independence.
Contracts and foundations
The prosecution argues in the complaint that Homs, in his capacity as secretary general of the Ministry of the Presidency, In 2011 and 2012, he participated in the irregular fragmentation of contracting of the services provided by a company for the travel and accommodation in Barcelona of those attending the world meeting of Catalan communities abroad, to be held in Barcelona in May 2012. Two minor contracting files were approved (17,850 euros each) , when all the services “were inextricably linked”.
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The complaint also underlines that the one who was also a deputy in Parliament and in Congress senen florensaformer Secretary of Foreign Affairs of the Generalitat, decided to award a law firm for an amount of €14,520 the realization of legal advice for a project of international revitalization in the field of industrial property, a matter outside, according to the accusation, to the Ministry of the Presidency.
Finally, the prosecution charged Homs, along with another person, with granting a direct grant to the foundation in December 2012 CatDem (Catalanist and Democratic Foundation), from the environment of the defunct CDC for an amount of 7,400 euros. This economic aid was destined to “contribute to the financing” of the expenses derived from his membership in the European Liberal Forum and the translation into various languages of material for disseminating its activity. The accusation links this action to another from the previous month, in November, when Homs had rescinded the call for other grants for the promotion and international projection of Catalan organizations.