A judge in Barcelona has amnestied the former Interior Conselleller Miquel Buch and a dozen former director of the Catalan Association of Municipalities (ACM), including the current deputy of Junts David Saldoni, investigated by the supposed diversion of 613,573 euros of the municipal entity for the ‘procés’.
This has been agreed by the head of the Court of Instruction number 16 of Barcelona in a car, advanced by the Mon There are no indications of crime that will justify raising a reasoned exhibition before the Superior Court of Justice of Catalonia (TSJC) to position themselves on the Law of Forgiveness.
For this reason, the judge agrees in his car, which can be used, the free dismissal and the archive of the actions and declares all the criminal responsibility of the investigated extinguished.
The now amnestified case opened in court in September 2019 following a complaint of the Prosecutor’s Office, for the crimes of embezzlement of public flows and fraud, against several ACM executives, Among them Saldoni, accused of diverting since 2015 a total of 613,573 euros of this municipal entity to the creation of state structures and the celebration of 1-O.
Subsequently, in April 2021, at the request of the Prosecutor’s Office, the investigation was extended to the former Interior Miquel Buch, who He had been president of the ACM between 2011 and 2017.
The Barcelona hearing agreed in July 2021 to dismiss the cause, in a tough resolution in which denounced the “successive violations” of rights by the judge, who “resigned” to control the investigation, and of the Prosecutor’s Office, for acting “behind the backs” of the suspects.
The prosecution appealed and the Supreme Court reopened in June 2023 The procedure considering that the closure was precipitated.
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