• Catalonia: Artur Mas's 'right hand' reveals in a recording the irregular financing of CDC

Despite his condemnation of the Palau case by billing Palau de la Música for his work for Convergència Democràtica de Catalunya (CDC) and his connection with the alleged irregular financing of this party from donations from construction companies in exchange for public awards , the so-called Case 3% , Junts Per Catalunya, heirs of convergent training, continue to rely on the company Hispart for the audiovisual assembly of electoral acts. In his statement last July before the National Court of Justice that investigates the alleged irregular financing of the party, Hispart's administrator, Juan Manuel Parra, confirmed to questions from the Prosecutor's Office that the company had worked for the campaign to the municipal elections of the last may.

In this statement, to which this media has had access, the businessman had explained before the judge that by indications of the then secretary of the Government Germà Gordó had billed the production company about 750,000 euros corresponding to a debt with the party for work of the 2010 election campaign, which led Artur Mas to the presidency of the Generalitat.

Prosecutor José Grinda then asked the businessman if after the 2010 election campaign he had done some other work for Convergència to which Parra replied that "some campaign I will have done more, even the last one has been, now it seems that they have been the municipal ones" . When asked by the Prosecutor's Office, the businessman specified that in May 2011, in other municipal elections, he was also in charge of tasks for campaign acts and that the bills were released to the party for payment.

In this sense, the entrepreneur said that although the tasks could be done in several municipalities who always paid for them was the headquarters of CDC. Although he explained that the party had paid for these works directly, he admitted that before 2000 bills were turned to the Palau de la Música for these acts for Convergence, as it appears in the judgment of the Palau case .

In addition, he explained that to charge an election campaign, a deceased CDC officer urged him to request a loan from the Fibanc bank, which was later paying for political training. According to reports from the Prosecutor's Office and the Udef in the Pujol case , which is also being investigated at the National Court, Jordi Pujol Ferrusola, son of the former president of the Generalitat, allegedly requested guarantees from an Andorran bank to "guarantee credit facilities" to several companies that performed work for CDC, such as Hispart or Altraforma. Investigators indicate that they were allegedly charged for campaign work of the 2000 generals.

In Parra's statement at the National Court, he also explained that his intention when meeting with Gordó, a meeting he recorded and whose audio is also incorporated in the judicial case, was to ask him for explanations for the money he had to collect from the 2010 campaign. The prosecutor asked him if the businessman did not decide to talk to Artur Mas about this money he had to collect and Parra replied that with the former president of the Generalitat "I have never talked about these issues" and added that "for me he does not carry these issues » in relation to payments to companies that work for the party. In the recording provided to the court, Parra and Gordó talk about a society that the businessman should do with David Madí, former CDC Secretary of Communication David Madí. In the audio, Parra states that Mas knew this operation but that it had not been performed.

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