The head of the Central Court of Instruction Number 5 of the National Court, José de la Mata , took a statement on Tuesday to the Catalan Ombudsman , Rafael Ribó , as accused of accepting that a businessman investigated for the irregular financing of Democratic Convergence of Catalonia (CDC) will pay you two trips by private plane to see the final of the Champions League in Rome in 2009 and Berlin in 2015.

During the interrogation, Ribó said that he did not know who paid him both trips to see the final of the Champions League on a chartered plane until he had access to the legal proceedings carried out by the National Court. In other words, according to the version given by the Sindic de Greuges, he has learned from the court who paid for his trips to see Barcelona Football Club play in the aforementioned European capitals.

The accused explained that in 2009, the historic deputy of Convergence and former member of the General Council of the Judiciary, Ramón Camp , told him about the possibility of traveling with a group of Culés friends to Rome having coincided at the end of the trip with the builder Soler . According to Ribó, he did not even know what the businessman was doing, who has recognized before Judge De la Mata to have twice invited him to the Champions League final. On the 2015 trip, the daughter of the Sindic was invited to Berlin.

At the request of the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office , the instructor offered last January to voluntarily make a statement to Ribó before deciding whether to submit a reasoned statement before the Superior Court of Justice of Catalonia (TSJC).

According to Anticorrupción, in June 2015 the businessman Jordi Soler "decided to invite various personalities from the field of the political party CDC or public institutions" Catalan at the end of the Champions League as a "cost added" to his "professional activity" to through which he allegedly paid illegal commissions to convergent training in exchange for access to public works in Catalonia .

The facts could involve an offense of improper passive bribery, which sanctions the public office that accepts a gift given in consideration of their charge.

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