Liechtenstein claims Artur Mas 'linked to Pujol corruption'
Wednesday, October 1, 2014 @ 3:06 PM
AUTHORITIES in Liechtenstein claim Catalunya's regional president may be linked to the multi-million money-laundering and corruption racket centred on his predecessor Jordi Pujol and family.
Investigators – via the Bank of Spain - contacted money-laundering prevention teams in all tax havens ordering them to send details of accounts held there by Pujol, who has now retired from politics, and his nearest relatives, friends and associates.
And the Financial Intelligence Unit in the central European principality has replied with information that may incriminate Mas through the firm owned by Jordi Pujol's son, Brantridge Holdings Ltd, set up in Liechtenstein in 2005 and dissolved in March this year after tax authorities in Spain began digging into the financial affairs of the ex-politician.
The information given is objective and inconclusive, providing databases, registers of activity and files, and leaving the Spanish courts to reach their own judgment on the contents.
Brantridge Holdings has been under scrutiny by Spain's financial fraud team UDEF ever since Vicky Álvarez, Jordi Pujol's son's ex-girlfriend, shopped her former partner to judge Pablo Ruz – the same legal expert who is trying the Bárcenas slush-fund case involving the PP government and its ex-treasurer's multi-million Swiss bank accounts, and also the Gürtel corruption racket centred on the PP.
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