The Podemos party has informed the National Court that it is abandoning the Pujol case, considering that the criminal action is already “sufficiently covered” by the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office. The group, which has been the accuser since the beginning of the case in 2014, has given up continuing in the macro-case one year before the family’s trial, which will begin in November 2025.
In a writing, Podemos lawyer Jaime Montero points out that his role as a popular accusation “has already contributed with his initiative to the purification of the investigated facts.” Podemos indicates that its presence at the trial is no longer necessary since it has already promoted the investigation of the case “from the very beginning,” which has served “to clarify very relevant facts,” the training adds.
The National Court will judge the former president of the Generalitat Jordi Pujol and his seven children from November 10, 2025 to April 23, 2026 for the origin of the fortune they accumulated and maintained for decades in Andorra without declaring it to the Treasury.
The Prosecutor’s Office requests a sentence of 9 years in prison for the former Catalan president, while for his seven children it requests sentences ranging between 8 and 29 years in prison that his first-born son, Jordi Pujol Ferrusola, demands, as well as million-dollar fines. They are accused of crimes of illicit association, money laundering, falsification of commercial documents, crimes against the Public Treasury and frustration of execution.
The State Attorney’s Office, for its part, does not address Jordi Pujol Soley in its indictment, while for the first-born son it requests 25 years in prison and a bail of 7.7 million euros for tax crimes alone. Podemos requested sentences of up to 16 years in prison for the president and 20 for the first-born son, who will no longer be able to claim when the popular accusation of the case is withdrawn.
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 San Fernando de Henares headquarters, and already in December, the month in which Since there are only two days of trial scheduled, the 15th and the 18th, it will be moved to the main headquarters on García Gutiérrez Street to hold the rest of the sessions.
After the Christmas break, the oral hearing will resume 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 expectation of leaving the trial for sentencing on April 23, 2026, which coincides with the Sant Jordi holiday.
Along with the former Catalan president, his children and the ex-wife of the first-born Jordi Pujol Ferrusola, Mercè Gironés, as well as businessmen such as Carlos Sumarroca Claverol and Carlos Vilarrubí, will sit on the bench.
39 witnesses will also testify, but not some claimed by the Pujol family such as the former leader of the PP in Catalonia Alicia Sánchez Camacho, in relation to the meeting she had in the Barcelona restaurant La Camarga with María Victoria Álvarez, ex-girlfriend of Jordi Pujol Ferrusola, and which was recorded.
Another 50 witnesses proposed by the parties, such as retired commissioner José Manuel Villarejo, former police chief Eugenio Pino and other commanders, are awaiting acceptance or not by the court pending accusations and defenses justifying their usefulness.
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