• Controversy: The National Court investigates whether Tous sells jewelry with a lower quality than announced
  • Investigation: Tous whistleblowers bought jewelry in different cities and a laboratory proved the absence of metal filler

The lawyer of the association that has denounced the practices of Tous, Magdalena Entrenas , said Wednesday at the doors of the National Court that the representatives of the company "have not been able to deny the evidence" that some of their pieces contain a filler which is not metallic, which according to Consujoya violates the precious metal regulations.

"They refuse to understand that what they sell is jewelry and they want to make it happen as a jewel. Let them say that it is plated, but do not sell it at the price of gold and silver when it is not. There is a law that we have to comply with everything the world, "said Consujoya’s lawyer after the statements.

The general director of the Tous Group , Josep Maria Bosch, has given a statement as investigated before Judge Santiago Pedraz and prosecutor Joaquín González. Bosch has only agreed to respond to the Prosecutor and the judge, but not to the association that exercises the popular accusation. The representative of Applus Laboratories , the other accused company, has also appeared.

The representative of Tous has defended that the technique used by the company in some pieces of silver is allowed by the corresponding law and regulations and allows to offer greater stability to the jewels. He has denied that it happens in the gold pieces and, in fact, all the analyzes of the denouncing association are about silver pieces. From the association it is maintained that the law allows to use some type of mold to manufacture the piece, but then it must be removed - it is usually wax - or, if not, sell the piece as jewelry and not as a jewel of law.

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The judge must now agree what new proceedings he wants to practice. In the complaint filed in December, the Prosecutor's Office requested various documentation on the authorizations and controls of the companies investigated, as well as questioning the inspector of the Junta de Andalucía that was present in the chemical tests that supported the complaint.

The jewelry company, meanwhile, has appealed the order in which the investigating judge accepted the prosecutor's request to open an investigation. He has also demanded that a bond be imposed on Consujoya to remain a party in the case and has accused the association of acting for spurious purposes , recalling that the same office in Córdoba, Sanivo Abogados , had already faced the company in court based in Manresa (Barcelona).

The prosecution considers that Tous and some of those responsible have been able to commit the crimes of misleading advertising, documentary falsehood, fraud and corruption among individuals .

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