Pujol’s family began their trial for the attack. The defenses of the children of the former president of the state tried to cancel the case with the text of the maneuvers drawn up by the political brigade of the People’s Party to obtain their bank details. The strongest was the lawyer Jaime Campaner, defending Josep Pujol Verosola, who asserted that the family’s “financial stripping” was evidence obtained illegally and should therefore be cancelled.
The Pujol family’s trial over the source of their wealth (hidden inheritance from grandfather Florentine Defence; money generated by corruption linked to the title of prosecutor’s office) began before the National Court on Monday. Despite the opinion of the doctors, the court decided that the former president, who is 95 years old and still recovering from pneumonia, will remain one of the defendants in the trial. Pujol will follow the session via video from his home in Barcelona.
The court’s decision caused a great surprise among the defense ranks. Once Pujol’s presence was resolved, preliminary issues began to be addressed, with lawyers trying to quash key aspects of the investigation that led to the family’s exoneration or suggesting new evidence.
Lawyer Campaner, who defends Josep Pujol Versola, went to this point and showed the court a cover the world on 7 July 2014, which included the famous “screenshot” image of Pujols’ bank details, which he described as the “original sin” for the reason it was cancelled. In law, evidence is as important as obtaining it through legal means, something that, in the defence’s opinion, did not happen with Pujols’s husband’s bank details.
The BPA’s Andorran bankers admitted that this screenshot was the result of pressure from various members of the political brigade intertwined in the Ministry of the Interior of the People’s Party under the mandate of Mariano Rajoy. In the game of chicken or the egg being decided in the Pujol case, Campaner said the reason for Pujol’s July 25, 2014 statement was specifically a cover-up. the world Fifteen days ago.
Campaner insisted that the statement was “neither free nor voluntary.” “How can someone deny something so politically important in the face of this bank stripping?” The lawyer confirmed.
“The statement has no other purpose than to cover El Mundo’s cover,” Campaner emphasized. “What really builds the accusation is not the statement itself, which is vague, general and inconclusive, but a pretext for criminally obtained evidence to restrict fundamental rights.”
As if that were not enough, Campaner also pointed out that the first complainant in the case, Jordi Pujol Versola’s former lover, Victoria Alvarez, was encouraged to denounce the eldest son by Mariano Rajoy’s former chief of staff, Jorge Morgas, as shown in the SMS revealed by elDiario.es.
In the same vein, but at greater political cost, he followed Oriol Pujol Verosola’s lawyer, Francisque Sánchez, who accused “a group of false police officers” of “trying to influence” the sovereignty process through the statement of Jordi Pujol Verosola’s former mistress, Victoria Álvarez, whose complaint opened the case in 2012.
The lawyer also asked the court to ask the Andorran Ministry of Justice to document the case related to the Catalonia operation that is being investigated in the principality. There, retired commissioner José Manuel Velario testified a few weeks ago, accusing former Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy of requesting the Pujols family’s bank details without evidence.
Referring to the tax fraud case against a friend of the President of the Community of Madrid, Sánchez wanted to expose the double standards of justice: “If they were González Amador, they would have exchanged documents with the Public Prosecutor’s Office, but their name is Pujol and that is another matter.”