• Claim: The Court of Auditors now claims 4.1 million from the leaders of the 'procés'
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The Generalitat presiding over Quim Torra has asked the Court of Auditors not to require Carles Puigdemont and other members of his Government to return the expenses of 1-O, because the State was responsible.

According to the liquidation record sent by the Court of Auditors to the defendants and to which EL MUNDO has had access, far from trying to recover the misappropriated money, the Generalitat of Catalonia tries to curb the procedure with different arguments, including that of who paid the Illegal referendum was "directly" the State.

"The Generalitat maintains that in the irregularities denounced, the legal requirements necessary to determine the existence of accounting responsibility are not given, since the facts found prove that the Generalitat did not allocate public funds for the financing of the referendum of October 1, as it is the State that made the payment directly to the suppliers, subjecting the Generalitat de Catalunya to an intense process of control and control. "

This is explained in the brief, which adds that "the lawyer of the Generalitat states that (...) it was materially impossible that funds could be allocated to the preparation of the referendum."

The instructor delegate of the Court of Auditors, Esperanza García , rejects the argument because it is clear that the central government ignored what the Generalitat did with the money and has given Puigdemont and his team 15 days to pay 4.1 million under penalty of embargo.

In addition, they have also threatened to pay for the deployment of embassies, which could amount to 20 million, according to this newspaper published on January 28. "This instructor delegate does not share the criteria indicated by the lawyer [of the Generalitat], since the controls established by the Secretary of State of the Ministry of Finance and the agreements adopted by the Delegate Committee on Economic Affairs [at the proposal of the then minister Cristóbal Montoro] were systematically mocked and appealed by the Generalitat. "

The Generalitat tries not to accumulate to this process the payment of the embassies and also asks that the bail already deposited in the Court number 13 of Barcelona be worth for the criminal cause of the State structures. The so-called resistance fund promoted by independentist groups has allowed us to face this 5.8 million bond. The instructing delegate refuses that this bond is worth and demands that the money requested be deposited in the Court of Auditors.

In one of the writings that appear in the case, the previous magistrate who investigated the 1-O in that court of Barcelona, Juan Antonio Ramírez Sunyer , already deceased, indicated that it was "evident" that "all or part" of the referendum be paid with credits obtained through the Autonomous Liquidity Fund and considered that the State Advocacy should be in the case as an accusation.

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