• Justice The Court of Auditors sees signs of illegality in the endorsement of the Generalitat and requests a report from the State Bar

  • Catalonia The Prosecutor's Office investigates as embezzlement the endorsement of the ICF demanded by the Court of Accounts from former Government officials

The Government has decided to avoid a conflict with the Generalitat of Catalonia and has decided to plant the Court of Auditors and refuse to rule on public endorsements to the pro-independence defendants.

According to an official statement, "the General State Attorney (AGE) confirms, after examining the proposal submitted by the State Attorney of the Court of Accounts, that the report that was requested on the guarantees presented by the Generalitat does not proceed, through the Institut Català de Finances (ICF), to face the guarantee of 5.4 million euros that is claimed from 34 former high-ranking officials and officials of the Catalan administration for their alleged involvement in undue expenses in the promotion of the procés abroad, between 2011 and 2017 ".

The Court of Auditors summoned the State Attorney, dependent on the Ministry of Justice, to advise him before deciding whether to cancel the guarantees and proceed to seize the assets of Artur Mas, Oriol Junqueras and other procés leaders. According to the statement, the Legal Profession "considers that it is not appropriate that, within the framework of the advisory function that the Law on the Operation of the Court of Accounts attributes to the State Legal Service in the Court, it can issue the report, since it has the status of part in the phase of previous actions to which said report would be incorporated ". This argument to slip away has surprised in the Court of Auditors,because the Government already announced before the summer that it would not appear in the case of embezzlement due to the foreign action of the Generalitat and the illegal referendum of October 1, claiming that the injured party was the Government and not the Spanish Treasury. Therefore, if the Ministry of Justice was no longer a party, it could rule on the guarantees, according to the expectation of the Court of Accounts.

On the other hand, according to the organ of the Ministry of Justice, "the request for a report to one of the parties on matters that directly affect the interests of the others may suggest the predisposition of the Court to follow the criteria of that party."

"The principles of contradiction and equality would also be affected, by requiring the report to only one of the parties without hearing from the others," the report adds.

In any case, the State Bar does not show hostility to guarantees, because it affirms that "the prosecution of the acts that are dictated must be carried out in accordance with Decree-Law of the Autonomous Community of Catalonia 15/2021, of July 6, of creation of the Supplementary Risk Fund of the Generalitat de Catalunya, since it is a norm with the force of law that has neither been declared unconstitutional nor has its effectiveness been provisionally suspended ".

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