The family of the former president of the Generalitat Jordi Pujol has decided to appear in the case opened in the trial court number 13 of Madrid that investigates the police plot that supposedly led the businessman and former president of Barça Sandro Rosell to jail for two years as a result of a complaint by Rosell himself against former commissioner José Manuel Villarejo in the framework of the Catalonia operation, as reported by the El Món program to RAC1.
The Pujol family will appear as the injured party in the case after La Vanguardia reported yesterday that for the first time a Spanish court has opened a criminal case against some of the main parties involved in actions involving the State sewers for events exclusively related to the called Operation Catalunya, a political, police, judicial and media framework intended to fabricate false evidence to open cases in the courts against people allegedly linked to the independence process, resorting to a varied repertoire of illegal means and using public resources, both economic and materials.
Judge Hermenegildo Barrera considers that the facts described in the complaint “lead to presume the possible existence of crimes by criminal organizations: falsification of an official in an official document, false accusation and complaint, embezzlement of public funds and illegal arrests,” according to his order. last October 27. Now, the Pujols want to take advantage of the opportunity to clarify whether they were also victims of this political-police plot.
“Welcome to those affected who want to join, now that we have opened the way,” Rosell’s lawyer, Pau Molins, celebrated in an interview on the same program. “If we reach a successful conclusion and legal proceedings are opened, all those affected can join together and file a joint private prosecution,” explained the lawyer, who also represents other possible victims of the Catalonia operation, such as the Sumarroca family, the former counselor delegate of the Private Bank of Andorra Joan Pau Miquel or the former head of the National Police in Catalonia Narciso Ortega.
Molins precisely explained that two courts in Madrid are about to investigate two new cases related to the Catalonia operation. One of the cases refers to the extortion against the Private Bank of Andorra and the other, to the dismissal of the former head of the National Police in Catalonia, Narciso Ortega.
The former president of the PP in Catalonia, Alícia Sánchez-Camacho, had put him in the crosshairs of the so-called patriotic police in a meeting with Commissioner Villarejo in November 2012. She then assured that Ortega was a “close friend” of Felip Puig, then Minister of the Interior. Puig himself has denied this extreme during the program.
The other lawsuit, that of the BPA, seeks to investigate the pressure exerted by the patriotic police on the CEO of the bank. Molins maintains that they extorted him to provide information about the accounts that the family of former president Jordi Pujol had in the entity. The patriotic police officers who contacted Miquel threatened to bring down the bank if he did not agree to his demands. In the end, after a controversial intervention, the Private Bank of Andorra had to lower the blind.
