Judge of the National Court Santiago Pedraz has dismissed money laundering proceedings against Oleguer Pujol, the youngest son of former Catalan President Jordi Pujol, concluding nine years after his arrest in the case that there was “not even a basis for a Assessment” gives evidence of a crime. In a decision to which EFE had access, the head of the Central Investigative Court No. 5 of the National Court approves the file of the single piece opened by Oleguer Pujol Ferrusola for alleged money laundering through operations in the company Dragó SL because “The commission of a crime is not sufficiently justified.”
According to the judge, who ordered the preliminary file in a unilateral order, despite all due diligence during the investigation, “there is not even a basis for evaluating evidence of a crime, and the evidence presented was not mere suspicion.” suitable to follow criminal proceedings”. As part of the Pujol case, in October 2014, the National Police arrested Oleguer Pujol, the youngest son of the former President of the Generalitat, and searched his home to find out if he had laundered money from abroad as part of various real estate deals to get out with the money of origin a stranger.
The National Police also raided the Madrid headquarters of Dragó that day, the company which investigators said had carried out many of the operations they believed were used to launder millions of euros. According to Oleguer Pujol himself, in 2013 Drago managed 2,730 million euros and 1,600 properties across Spain.
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