Calls for CDC ex-treasurers Andreu Viloca and Germá Gordó to be condemned as responsible for the “systematic action” of the party
MADRID, 2 Nov. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office has requested sentences of more than 20 years in prison for the accused and a fine of 3 million euros for the PdeCAT for the “strategy for illicit financing” that would have been carried out “systematically” over the years in its political predecessor, the extinct Convergència Democratica de Catalunya (CDC), in the framework of what is known as the ‘case of the 3%’.
In his letter, to which Europa Press has had access, the prosecutor José Grinda accuses 30 individuals and 14 legal entities, in addition to two political groups, requesting a sentence of 21 years and 4 months in prison for the former CDC treasurer Andreu Viloca and 18 years and 10 months for the person also responsible for the training accounts Germá Gordó, who was also Minister of Justice of the Government.
The Public Ministry details that in the period from 2008 to 2015 “senior CDC officials, in collusion with public officials and officials from different Administrations and public institutions of Catalonia, and with the different accused businessmen, set up a structure to finance this political party illegally and covertly”.
“It was a systematic action of, on the one hand, receiving money from businessmen, on the other hand, transforming that money into income for CDC, without the stain of its illicit origin,” explains the prosecutor, who assures that “the accused businessmen agreed with the CDC charges to make covert payments to the party, under the guise of donations, through the foundations linked to the party.”
The Prosecutor’s Office understands that the facts described constitute crimes of criminal organization, fraud against public administrations, corruption between individuals, influence peddling, bribery, prevarication and money laundering.
In this context, Anticorruption details that Viloca “was in charge of making the triangulation with authorities and businessmen, and of the payments to the foundations.” “As administrator and treasurer of the CDC and the CatDem foundation, he had an exhaustive control of all the tenders and awards of public works and contests offered by different Administrations under the sphere of power of the CDC,” the letter states.
As for Gordó, this would have been “for several years the contact of the contractors with the Catalan Public Administration and the CDC.” This contact, in addition to having been made outside the legal channels and the function that corresponded to him within the Catalan Government , was directed to the benefit of said contractors and that of the political party to which he belonged, objectives both opposed to the public good, “explains the Prosecutor’s Office.
