• Courts. 3% judge sends three former CDC managers to dock for criminal organization

The alleged corruption in the former Convergència Democràtica de Catalunya (CDC) can reach all former party officials.

The former treasurer of the training, Daniel Osàcar, convicted of the 'Palau case' and charged in the '3% case', explained this Tuesday to the judge of the National Court José de la Mata that the then general secretary of the CDC Artur Mas was aware of an alleged money laundering scheme in which senior party officials received cash that allegedly came from illicit commissions.

"I think Mas knew it" has testified in the courts of Barcelona.

In a separate piece of the '3% case' investigating 12 former CDC charges, Osàcar has pulled the blanket and explained that he participated in money laundering in small amounts in the party in a system that was repeated every end of year.

Specifically, if the accounts did not add up for the last quarter, they asked leaders to make a donation and deposit the treasurer, by order of the then party manager Germà Gordó, then Minister of Justice, returned the same amount in cash.

The Prosecutor's Office considers that in this way, if the donations from senior officials, among which there are several former consellers, were "acts of outcropping of money from crime", since it would be money laundering, through the "classic system of smurf ".

Thus, the judge investigates whether the defendants gave the CDC "an amount of money equivalent to what the party itself had previously or subsequently delivered to the supposed voluntary donor, with knowledge of its illicit origin."

In his confession, Osàcar pointed to Germà Gordó, accused in this case, since he allegedly controlled the money laundering system in small quantities under investigation.

He also remarked that he cannot imagine that Artur Mas did not know about this system being at the head of the party and having close contact with Gordó.

Last week the former treasurer initiated the statement by videoconference but it was suspended for technical reasons and that is why the judge and prosecutors traveled to Barcelona this Tuesday.

Regarding the former high-ranking officials investigated, Osàcar indicated that several of them, such as former councilors Felip Puig, Irene Rigau and Pere Macias, or the former mayor of Barcelona Xavier Trias, refused to have the money returned while others, such as the former Minister Jordi Jané, accepted it.

He also explained that he did not know the origin of the cash, although the prosecutor José Grinda suspects that they are payments of commissions from businessmen in exchange for public works awards.

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