Thursday, March 16, 2023, 12:25 p.m.
Félix Millet, former president of the Palau de la Música Catalana, has died this Thursday in Barcelona at the age of 87. Millet, who was everything in Catalan society, from vice president of the FC Barcelona foundation, cross of Sant Jordi, president of Agrupació Mutua or Bankpime, to being for 20 years at the helm of the flagship entity of Catalan culture, such as the Palau. He was president between 1990 and 2009. He was removed after the outbreak of the Palau case. The day that the Mossos entered the jewel in the crown of Catalan culture to carry out a search was a before and after in Catalonia. A myth fell, that of the Catalan oasis.
He was sentenced in 2018 to nine years and eight months in prison and his right-hand man, to seven years and six months in prison, for perpetrating a looting of the cultural entity, valued by the judge at 23 million euros. Gemma Montull, financial director, and Daniel Ósacar, former treasurer of Convergència, were also sentenced.
His entry into prison occurred eight years after the Mossos broke into the Palau, uncovering the case and after a trial that caused a shock in Catalan society due to the relevance of the defendants. The Palau case not only judged the looting of the cultural entity. He also judged Convergència, which was convicted for the first time by the famous 3%. In this case, as Millet himself confessed during the trial, it was 4%. They were the bribes paid by the Ferrovial company, the one that has now decided to leave Spain, the one that paid commissions to Convergència in exchange for public works concessions. The bites were paid through the Palau.
Millet, who went from being a patrician in Catalan society to being ignored by all those who flattered him for years, has spent the last years of his life between prison and the prison hospital.
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