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The Criminal Chamber of the National Court has confirmed the order of Judge

José de La Mata

in which he proposed to try the members of the Pujol Ferrusola family for crimes of criminal organization or illicit association, money laundering, crime against the Public Treasury and documentary falsity.

The Third Section of the Criminal Chamber fully confirms in a resolution dated April 20 the order to proceed to the abbreviated procedure issued by the instructor for all those investigated in this procedure, with the exception of

Carlos Sumarroca Coixet

, for whom it is agreed the file of the case, and

Mercé Gironés

, who had two crimes against public finances withdrawn.

"The evidence -of crime- are sufficiently detailed in the appealed order and are derived from what has been acted so far in the investigation phase to which said resolution ends," points out the court to add that now it is entering the phase in the one that the parties must request or the file, or new proceedings or present the indictment.

Accounts abroad

Reviewing the allegations made by the Pujol family in their appeal, the Chamber confirms the jurisdiction of the National Court and indicates that, in relation to money laundering, the nuclear acts were carried out abroad - mainly in Andorra - through the movement of cash funds from various accounts opened abroad, owned by various members of the Pujol family. Accounts that according to the appealed order were placed in the name of foundations controlled by said family.

Regarding the classification of the facts as an illicit association or criminal organization, the Chamber confirms this classification and indicates that the contested resolution reports a "clearly concerted action by all members of the Pujol family" consisting of the simultaneous opening and closing of bank accounts abroad, as well as movements of funds between them, which incidentally obeys a strategy aimed at concealing their origin and that the car connects with certain illicit operations that resulted in certain resolutions of the Catalan autonomous administration.

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