Josep Pujol Ferrusola, one of the seven children of the former president of the Generalitat Jordi Pujol, has assured that he would be willing to admit his guilt in the case that affects his family, if this would allow his father to be exonerated.
Asked in an interview on TV3 this Saturday if he would be willing to agree with the prosecution or the courts to admit his guilt if this meant exonerating his father, Josep Pujol said categorically: “Obviously yes, I would have no doubts.” “As a son, one of the things that would fill me the most would be to defend my father. If this meant defending him, I would accept it without any problem,” he added in the space, where he defined his father as “an exceptional and extraordinary being.”
This June, Jordi Pujol will be 92 years old and, according to his son Josep, “he has never had accounts abroad”. Judge Santiago Pedraz sent Jordi Pujol and his seven children to trial, after excluding his wife Marta Ferrusola from the procedure for health reasons, for the crimes of illicit association, money laundering, forgery of commercial documents, against the Public Treasury and execution frustration.
The Prosecutor’s Office requests a sentence of 9 years in prison for the former Catalan president, while for his seven children he requests sentences that range between 8 and 29 years in prison, which he claims for Jordi Pujol Ferrusola.
