Money Laundering

The general director of the Tax Office, Santiago Menendez announced Tuesday on the investigation of 705 taxpayers who benefited from the tax amnesty and "show signs of being able to commit money laundering." According to the story of Menendez during his appearance in Congress to report details about the results of the fight against fraud of 2014, will notify cases of laundering to the Executive Service for the Prevention and Money Laundering (SEPBLAC) for the investigation by the Police, the Civil Guard or the prosecution and bring the case to court if necessary.

Electric car fiasco Hiriko, on its top we find Afipayda a nonprofit association that controlled the PNV linked to the entrepreneur, Jesus Echave. Thsi association received 18 million euros and redirected those funds to other companies involved in the project. The prosecutor accused about alleged crimes of fraud in the use of public funds, embezzlement of funds, money laundering and forgery. .

Treasury will maintain two fronts opened about Oleguer Pujol Ferrusola , the youngest son of the expresident of the Generalitat. Judge Santiago Pedraz, which investigates the youngest for tax evasion and money laundering, has ordered the Tax Agency to resume the administrative inspection about Pujol. Those performances analyzed several fiscal exercises of Oleguer -IRPF, estate taxes and goods abroad -but stalled in December by the judicial investigation.

Jordi Pujol Ferrusola, the firstborn of the Catalan president, has asked the authorities of Andorra to not cooperate in "political persecution", according to him, his family suffers in Spain. In a report, the defense of Junior Pujol opposes the decision of a judge to order Andorran banks to provide information on bank accounts in that country and in case of finding them, block them. "It does not take any special effort of argument to show that there is" this persecution, reasons the appeal, which also attacks the media "interested or manipulated" publishing "information that harms the Pujol family."

The Central Operational Unit (UCO) of the Civil Guard has developed a new raid Tuesday corruption centered in Melilla and three other cities, it ended with the arrest of 14 people, including government officials and businessmen who allegedly rigged contracts to keep public money.

Several of the ongoing big judicial investigations in Valencia like the Palau de les Arts, the Gürtel case, Cooperation , Ràdio Televisió Valenciana and others are stranded with no perspective of resuming the short term.

At this point the responsibility of the Popular Party about the Gürtel plot and the inability to move on to the serious facts discovered by the police, prosecutors and judges can not be more evident. If the party wants to avoid crossing the desert, you must make clear to the public how far they have reached their implications as an institution. They have accumulated much evidence of irregular financing and exploitation of the party position achieved for private enrichment, which were not corrected over many years.

The opposition groups: PSC, PPC, Iniciativa, Ciutadans and CUP have said that the answers that the Catalan President, Artur Mas, gave in the commission of inquirt of the parliament on his father's hidden fortune was not credible.

The leader of PSC Miquel Iceta was the first one asking Artur Mas last monday about the inheritance left by his father from a bank account in Liechtenstein, but the explanations demanded the opposition groups about it and other issues were very generic and left many loose ends. The appearance of the president of the Generalitat in the commission of investigation of the case Pujol did not dispel the shadows of doubt that have been generated over the years and that affect the current nationalist leader and CDC funding .

Artur Mas was again unmarked by the expresident Jordi Pujol about his hidden fortune and reaffirmed that it is a personal and family issue that it doesn't go any further.