The judge of the National Court Santiago Pedraz has archived the separate piece that followed against Oleguer Pujol, youngest son of the former president of the Generalitat Jordi Pujol, for him tax crime and money laundering that it has been investigated whether he committed with the real estate operations carried out through Dragon Capital. Unlike what he decided a year ago, the magistrate now considers that what has been instructed “is not duly justified the commission of any crime.”
In an order of just one page, to which EL PERIÓDICO DE CATALUNYA has had access, the head of the Central Investigating Court number concludes the investigation and points out that, “despite the procedures carried out, there is no basis to even appreciate evidence of any crime, and those that were supplied were mere suspicions, not fit to follow a criminal procedure”.
With this decision, the only cause that Oleguer Pujol will have to face will be that of the so-called Pujol case, due to the fortune that the family hid in Andorra, in which the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor requests for him a sentence of eight years in prison for a crime of money laundering and another for illicit association. It is the same penalty that is requested for each of his brothers, except Jordi and Josep. The first faces a request for 29 years in jail, for having been in charge of managing the family estate, and the second of 14. For the ‘expresident’ the tax request is nine years in prison.
Already inside the Pujol case
Part of the piece now archived coincides with the facts attributed to him in the Pujol case. Anti-Corruption held thatBetween 1992 and 2000, 116 million pesetas (697,174 euros) in your Andbanc account, through 10 account transfers from his older brother, Jordi Pujol Ferrusola, who was commissioned by his parents to manage the family estate. From there came different contributions to the Drago Real Estate Partners fund and to make different investments in Panama. The account was closed in 2010 with a cash provision of 100,000 euros, another of 73,000 pounds and a transfer to an account in Andorra of 800,000 dollars.
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The prosecutors José Grinda and Juan José Rosa, Attached to this piece from its origins, they focused on the journey made by the commissions derived from the so-called Brick Project, through which the sale of dozens of Banco Santander branches, through several crossed contracts and verbal agreements between different companies (Sun Capital Partners, ARD Choille and Aegle International).
As argued by Anticorruption, which has now shown its agreement with the file, part of the money ended up in different tax havens, such as the Virgin Islands and Guernsey. The police concluded that the payments for the sale of real estate by the bank were camouflaged through contracts signed with ARD Choille and Marway, controlled by the tax planning services company based in The Hague ITPS Group. To determine the destination of the money, several rogatory commissions were sent, among them, to the Netherlands.