The National Court will judge the former president of the Generalitat of Catalonia Jordi Pujol Soley already his seven children –Jordi, Josep, Oriol, Marta, Mireia, Pere and Oleguer– from November 10, 2025 to April 23, 2026, in relation to the allegedly illicit fortune that they accumulated and kept hidden for decades, ten years after it was opened this cause.
The Prosecutor’s Office requests a sentence of nine years in prison for the former Catalan president, while for his seven children he requests sentences ranging from eight and 29 years in prison who claims his firstborn, Jordi Pujol Ferrusolaas well as million-dollar fines.
The State Attorney’s Office, for its part, does not address Pujol Soley in its indictment, while for the first-born son it asks 25 years in prison and a bond of 7.7 million euros. They are accused of crimes of illicit association, money laundering, falsification of commercial documents, crimes against the Public Treasury and frustration of execution.
The trial schedule: November 2024 to April 2026
According to the trial calendar, the first Criminal Section has scheduled the first days of this trial for November 10, 13, 24 and 27, 2025 at the headquarters of San Fernando de Henaresand already in December, a month in which there are only two days of trial scheduled, the 15th and the 18th, it will be moved to the main headquarters in the García Gutiérrez street to celebrate the rest of the sessions.
After the Christmas break, the oral view in January, on the 12th, 15th, 26th and 29th; In February the Chamber has set six more days, another four in March and in April another six days with the forecast to leave the trial for sentencing on April 23, 2026which coincides with the festival of Saint George.
Along with the former Catalan president, his children and the ex-wife of the first-born son will sit on the bench, Mercé Gironés. The court will be composed of the judges Maria Riera, Carolina Rius and María Fernanda García, who will judge another 17 people, including businessmen like Carlos Sumarroca Claverol and Carlos Vilarrubi.
Regarding the testimonies, the Chamber has also issued the order of admission of evidence, in which it accepts the statement of 39 witnesses and rejects that others like the former president of the PP in Catalonia, Alicia Sanchez Camachoin relation to the meeting he had at the Barcelona restaurant La Camarga with Maria Victoria Alvarezex-girlfriend of Jordi Pujol Ferrusola, and which was recorded.
In the case of others 50 witnesseslike the retired commissioner Jose Manuel Villarejothe former deputy operational director of the Police Eugenio Pino and other policethe Court requires the parties to justify the need and usefulness of these testimonies within a period of ten days.
In June 2021, the judge Santiago Pedraz He ordered the opening of an oral trial for these events that began to be investigated in 2015 in the National Court following a complaint from Pujol Ferrusola’s ex-girlfriend.
The Pujol family, accused of criminal organization
The investigation determined that members of the Pujol family They allegedly formed a criminal organization who, taking advantage of his privileged position, accumulated an excessive wealth directly related to economic perceptions derived from corrupt activities.
Their way of acting met, according to the instruction, all the requirements of a criminal organization: with various hierarchical levels, a planned structure, and permanence over time, since the first current accounts were opened in Andorra in 1992 until the family closed its last foundations in 2014.
The leadership of the organization, according to the investigation, was embodied in Jordi Pujol and Marta Ferrusola who, in fact, called herself the “mother superior of the congregation.” Ferrusola was left out of the case after proving that he suffered from dementia until his death on July 8, 2024.
Below would be Jordi Pujol Ferrusola, called “the parish chaplain”, whose instructions the rest of the brothers followed in turn.
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