The Treasury agrees to withdraw the last reinforced control over the expenses of the Generalitat of Catalonia

The Ministry of Finance agrees to withdraw the last remaining reinforced control over the expenses of the Generalitat of Catalonia to prevent them from financing illegal operations against the State.

Ministry sources confirmed to this newspaper that the intention is to lift the control established by the previous head,

, in 2015 and that it subjected the Generalitat to extra surveillance with respect to other communities to try to prevent illegal independence operations from being financed.

There is still no scheduled date, but the Minister of Finance, María Jesús Montero, will propose the Delegate Commission for Economic Affairs of the Government the withdrawal of this control in compliance with the agreement reached with Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya to approve the State Budgets for 2021. Its parliamentary spokesman,

, announced on Tuesday that it would "end financial control over Catalonia" and, in effect, the Ministry of Finance has confirmed this to EL MUNDO.

In the Treasury they justify it because the context was different then and that no incident has been detected after the 2017 referendum with the current Government of the Generalitat.

In addition, they emphasize that fiscal rules have been suspended due to the pandemic.

The control established in 2015 still requires the Generalitat to certify the use of all expenses to prevent it from being used for illegal structures such as several of those set up in 2017. These are monthly certificates issued

by the General Audit of the Generalitat on the expenses that Montoro himself came to the conclusion that it was not a sufficient control and imposed an additional one that required information prior to the expenses.

It did so in September 2017 and, even so, it did not prevent

and his team from diverting funds to the referendum.

This control was already withdrawn by the Government of

soon as he assumed power in 2018 and now eliminates the pending one since 2015. This mechanism also imposes special limitations on indebtedness and the current interim president of the Generalitat,

, has been demanding Montero for years. to remove it, until he has finally succeeded.

In the Treasury they assure that the withdrawal of the reinforced control does not mean that there is no type of surveillance on the accounts of the Generalitat and the rest of the autonomous communities.

Catalonia continues to be the largest recipient of regional liquidity funds provided by the State with more than 7,000 million annually and the Court of Auditors has indicated on several occasions that even the reinforced controls have not been sufficient to prevent the financing of illegal activities.

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