Jordi Pujol

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Jordi Pujol (2008)

Jordi Pujol i Soley [ ˈʒɔɾði puˈʒɔl ] (born June 9, 1930 in Barcelona ) is a Spanish politician and was head of government of Catalonia from 1980 to 2003 (President of the Generalitat de Catalunya ) and until 2003 chairman of the party Convergència i Unió . Jordi Pujol is one of the most corrupt politicians in Spain. He is involved in some of the biggest scandals, such as the bankruptcy of Banca Catalana , which he and his father Florenci Pujol i Brugat founded with Francesc Cabana i Vancells in 1959, the corruption case of the Palau de la Mùsica in Barcelona and the 3% donation scandal of the Convergència party Democràtica de Catalunya , which he founded in 1974 and directed for many years, is involved.

Political life

The trained doctor Jordi Pujol already worked under the Franco regime in the Catalan opposition and was sentenced to seven years imprisonment in 1960, albeit released after two and a half years. In 1974 he founded the national Catalan party Convergència Democràtica de Catalunya , which has formed the Convergència i Unió together with the Unió Democrática de Catalunya since 1979 . He was elected Prime Minister of Catalonia in 1980 and was re-elected in 1984, 1988, 1992, 1995 and 1999. For the 2003 election, he resigned his political office and handed over the chairmanship of the party to Artur Mas , who, as the top candidate, was unable to win a majority in the parliamentary elections. Pujol's successor in the post of Catalan head of government was the socialist Pasqual Maragall , who was based on a tripartite coalition until November 2006.

Criminal activities

In 2014, Pujol declared that he had kept a million dollar fortune abroad from the tax authorities for decades.

There are currently several legal proceedings against Pujol and his seven children for money laundering and corruption .

On October 27, 2015, police raided various properties, offices and company headquarters of the Pujol family at the behest of the public prosecutor. Three of the seven Pujol children were arrested and then interrogated. These were Jordi Pujol Ferrusola (alias: Júnior ), Josep and Pere . They are accused of money laundering and tax evasion on a large scale. On October 30, the public prosecutor said that Jordi Pujol Júnior's accounts were 11.5 million from criminal activities. It was also announced that the Pujols clan had deposited cash worth 31 million euros in bank accounts in Andorra in recent years .

In the same year it became known that the Pujol family had hidden their assets in various tax havens . Including the Bahamas , Belize , Liechtenstein , Jordan , Madeira , the British Virgin Islands , Guernsey , Panama , Switzerland and Uruguay . The amount of the family's total assets has not yet been fully clarified.

The Pujol family used religious terms to disguise their illegal business activities in Andorra. So they gave z. B. the alias "Sagrada Familia" (Holy Family) or the wife of Pujol, Marta Ferrusola Lladós called herself "Madre Superiora"

However, some investigations by the authorities show that one of the sons alone, Jordi Pujol Ferrusola, together with his ex-wife Mercé Gironés Riera , paid more than 11 million euros in hidden commissions in return for construction contracts from public authorities in Catalonia through the companies Copisa , Isolux and Ente for fictitious orders. These secret funds were not only transferred to tax havens, but also invested in companies in Mexico , USA , Paraguay , Argentina , Panama and the Netherlands .

Awards

Web links

Commons : Jordi Pujol  - collection of images, videos and audio files

credentials

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Tax affair surrounding the former head of government Pujol in Catalonia. In: Watson, July 26, 2014.
  2. ↑ Corrupt Spanish clan shock the Catalans. In: Die Welt, October 28, 2014.
  3. ↑ La Policía registra las viviendas de Jordi Pujol y de tres de sus hijos. In: El País of October 27, 2015.
  4. ↑ "El juez afirma que Pujol 'júnior' cobró 11.5 millones de“ origen criminal ”. In: El País of October 30, 2015.
  5. ↑ Así saquearon Cataluña los Pujol. In: El Mundo from November 1, 2015.
  6. ↑ "El holding de los Pujol: the UDEF revienta la conexión del clan con paraísos fiscales." In: ElConfidencial.com of June 7, 2015. Retrieved on December 25, 2019 (Spanish)
  7. ↑ "Los Pujol operaban en Andorra bajo el alias de 'Sagrada Familia'" , in El Mundo on September 29, 2017, accessed on December 25, 2019 (Spanish)
  8. ↑ “El clan Pujol has dispersado en 10 paraísos fiscales su fortuna”. In Inversión Finanza (Finanza.com) of November 2, 2015. Accessed December 25, 2019
  9. ^ "Pujol transfería millones a sociedades inexistentes radicadas en paraísos fiscales." In El Taquigrafo, (eltaquigrafo.com) of March 21, 2019. Retrieved December 25.
personal data
SURNAME Pujol, Jordi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pujol i Soley, Jordi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish politician, head of government of Catalonia (1980-2003)
DATE OF BIRTH June 9, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Barcelona