The former treasurer of Convergència Democràtica de Catalunya (CDC) Daniel Osàcar, sentenced to 3 years and 6 months in prison by the Supreme Court for the case of diversion of funds from the Palau de la Música and investigated in the 3% case in the National Court , died last Monday, March 18, as explained this Wednesday by his lawyer, Javier Melero, on RAC1.
Osàcar died of cancer at the age of 88, with all his assets seized by decision of the National Court and pending trial for the 3% case, in which around thirty people are also accused of alleged irregular financing of the CDC through of the public works tender, among them Germà Gordó and Andreu Viloca.
The Prosecutor’s Office requested a year and a half in prison for him replaced by work for the benefit of the community, a request far below what the public ministry requested for other of the accused, by virtue of his collaboration in clarifying the facts investigated.
“Osàcar died while he was charged by the National Court since 2014 for the 3% case and his assets were seized,” explained Melero in RAC1. “He was a good friend of mine and I hope he rests in peace,” he added.
Osàcar’s career in the defunct Democratic Convergence of Catalonia is long since he joined in 1982. He dealt directly with Jordi Pujol, and was a member of the national council. When Artur Mas held the general secretary of the party, he was appointed deputy to this position and, when the party’s treasurer, Carles Torrent, suddenly died in 2005, they proposed replacing him in this role, to which he initially opposed, although later He accepted when Mas himself insisted. He was between 2005 and 2010.
In 2018, the former senior convergent official was sentenced by the Barcelona Court for the case of the looting of the Palau de la Música to 4 years and 5 months in prison, but the Supreme Court reduced the sentence to 3 years in April 2020. and 6 months, upon being acquitted of the crime of influence peddling and the 11-month prison sentence imposed on him for it was eliminated. He was also fined 3.7 million euros, all as the perpetrator of a crime of money laundering, in conjunction with a continuing crime of falsification of a commercial document and a crime of accounting falsification. Investigators then made it clear that Osàcar never personally benefited from the plot.
He entered the Brians II prison in June 2020, where he shared a cell with the former president of the Palau and main convict Félix Millet, and received the third degree 75 days later.
After his time in prison, Osácar felt alone and abandoned by the party and had to pay the fines associated with the sentence out of his own pocket and in installments, as explained by Santiago Tarín in a chronicle from that time, so, despite the fact that In CDC they saw him as a man of convictions who would not say anything, when he was summoned to testify before the National Court for a separate piece of the case 3% pointed out that Germà Gordó, who was then manager of the party, was the promoter of the money laundering coming from commissions through the system known as smurfing. And he added that the party was strongly hierarchical, which indirectly implied that the general secretary and former president of the Generalitat Artur Mas must have been aware of these practices.
As Melero told La Vanguardia, Osàcar agreed to collaborate with the Prosecutor’s Office because, due to his age and illness, “he did not feel in a position to face a trial in the National Court.” The AN judge Santiago Pedraz agreed in November 2022 to open a trial regarding PDECat, CDC and the aforementioned Gordó, Osàcar and Viloca, for which there is still no date.
According to sources in the case, when Osácar’s death certificate reaches the National Court, the criminal case will be dismissed so that the embargoes that weighed on his assets will be lifted as he has no civil liability.
The funeral for the death of Osàcar sae is held at the Sant Gervasi funeral home this Wednesday, at half past one in the afternoon.
