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The latest finding by the judge of the National Court José de la Mata about the expatriate fortune of the Pujol points to one of the main financial executives of Barcelona, Carlos Tusquets Trias de Bes , as alleged partner of Jordi Pujol Ferrusola to hide millions of euros between Switzerland and Luxembourg .

The judicial investigations have found several links between the two that converge around the Swiss bank Pictet and, in particular, on a subsidiary of this entity located in Luxembourg, which asks for more detailed information on the movements made from 2004 to the present .

This bicentennial bank founded in Geneva is dedicated to the management of high assets and is one of the favorites by Tusquets, founder of FiBanc and current president of Banco Mediolanum Spain after the purchase of the first by the Italian group controlled by the Doris and Silvio Berlusconi family .

56 positions in companies

The Catalan manager holds a non-executive position in the financial company, which has allowed him to undertake new adventures until, according to the commercial registry, a total of 56 positions in dozens of different companies. He is currently president of Trea Capital , dedicated to the management of financial assets, and vice president of the European Association of Financial Planning and the Spanish Association of Investment and Pension Funds . Recently he has fought with the independentista Joan Canadell to preside over the Barcelona Trade Exchange , but lost in the elections.

After decades in the investment sector, Carlos Tusquets has gained enormous fame in advising large assets. In 2004 he founded Tusquets Consultores , a company dedicated to financial advice with four employees but with 88 million euros in assets and a benefit of 2.4 million.

The first link with the Swiss bank Pictet appears on the accounts of this company, on which De la Mata has now put his magnifying glass. Since its foundation in 2004, Tusquets Consultores declares various amounts deposited in the Luxembourg subsidiary Pictet & Cie Europe. The year in which these savings reached their maximum level was 2016, when the current account contained 1.4 million euros. At the end of 2018 this amount had been reduced to just over 13,000 euros, according to commercial documentation.

In addition, numerous presences in different collective investment institutions appear in the company's accounts, among which the Pictet-Us Equity Select or the Pictet Emerging Markets stand out . The Swiss bank was one of the few European entities that traded funds linked to the Madoff pyramid fraud and was then forced to return the money to the affected customers to reduce the wave of litigation by being an intermediary. The group later apologized that it was one of its managers who sold them behind the company's back.

Without explanations of the relationship the Pujol

This newspaper has tried unsuccessfully to obtain an explanation of Tusquets to its connection with the Pujol family. Financial sources explain that the appearance of the businessman in a hedge fund with the name of Selecta , based in the British Virgin Islands as revealed on Tuesday THE WORLD, is linked to an old investment directed by a former manager of JP Morgan when this type of Products were not yet highly developed in Spain.

These collective investment funds base their strategy on the commitment to various very diverse assets to achieve the maximum possible return. Spanish legislation allows since 2014 that Spanish investors invest in hedge fund marketed in 28 foreign countries, among which is Switzerland. It is one of the most restrictive laws in Europe and aims to prevent money laundering.

The resolution signed by the investigating judge explains that Pujol Ferrusola requested in September 2004 "the transfer of all assets" stored in JP Morgan's subsidiary in Switzerland to the accounts of Banque Pictet in Luxembourg, with an amount exceeding eight million of euros.

This concludes that "it is proven" that the son of the former president of the Generalitat used Swiss jurisdiction and others to carry out different operations "aimed at the concealment and laundering of illicitly obtained capital, in turn hidden in Andorra and other jurisdictions" , reports Efe.

"The handling of this operation highlights the principle of cash unit with which the family and all the bank accounts of Jordi Pujol Ferrusola works," says De la Mata, who emphasizes that the information sent by the Swiss authorities It follows that his wife Mercé Gironés and the same businessman Carles Tusquets are also authorized in the JP Morgan account.

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