The Consell per la República tried to implement the use of cryptocurrencies as one of its main currencies
MADRID, 24 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Civil Guard has revealed that the Majorcan rapper Josep Miquel Arenas, known as Valtonyc, actively participated in the design and creation of the official website of the ‘Consell per la República Catalana’, a kind of “digital republic” that sought to provoke a ” technological disconnection with the State, thus avoiding its legal dependency”.
This is clear from a report dated June 5, 2019 that is part of the summary of the secret investigation that has been carried out in the National High Court in relation to the so-called ‘Catalan CNI’. In it, to which Europa Press has had access, the Armed Institute details the “interaction” of the rapper “fled to Belgium for his reasons with the Justice” with those responsible for the aforementioned website.
In one of the conversations intervened by the agents, an investigator explains that, to date, they did not have “a decent team.” “But from now on we will begin to have it. Until now the application was being made by a certain Valtonyc, who had stopped the thing because he had to release a record”, he details.
At that moment, his interlocutor asks the person under investigation about the “computer knowledge” that the rapper has. “Jaume says he knows how to make websites, they say. Yesterday Vilaseca told me that at least he knew how to do one thing, but he wasn’t an expert either, obviously. But neither was Cabani, who was the one who had done things until now” , recognize.
Valtonyc fled to Belgium in 2018 to avoid being imprisoned in Spain where he was sentenced to three and a half years in prison for praising terrorism, slander and serious insults to the crown, after which the Spanish authorities issued a European Arrest Warrant and Delivery (OEDE).
The conversations transcribed in the aforementioned Benemérita report were intercepted on April 9, 2019, when the agents investigated the figure of David Ollé Parellada, a computer engineer also investigated in this case. He is, according to the Civil Guard, “one of the main managers of the digital platforms that make up” the Consell per la República.
In relation to Ollé himself and the aforementioned Consell, another report includes the discovery of “extremely relevant data on the intention to implement the use of cryptocurrencies as the main currencies in the flow of movements and financial transactions of the Consell”. “To do this, the person under investigation has contacted a programmer and entrepreneur in blockchain technologies, highly specialized in digital currency, identified as Aleix Sicart,” the agents point out.
Sicart himself, the researchers point out, was considered at that time “a benchmark in the technology-computer sector, specializing in digital currency, chosen by Forbes magazine as one of the 300 most influential young people on the European continent.”
The use of cryptocurrency appeared, explains the Civil Guard, in a list of services that the promoters of the Consell considered that the digital republic should offer, whose use would be framed in commercial transactions and obtaining services, registrations in digital sales platforms, and donations.
The agents began the investigations into the so-called ‘Catalan CNI’ in December 2018, nine months before 13 members of the CDR now prosecuted were arrested. The investigation focuses on this alleged body, “related to the Catalan regional and public administration” which –“in direct collaboration” with some CDRs– had begun “planning, through the use of violence and force, to assault occupy and defend the Parliament of Catalonia over time”.
In another of its reports, the Armed Institute reports on the meeting that the then Minister of the Presidency, Elsa Artadi, held in March 2019 with Ramir de Porrata-Doria, a businessman who was a Junts candidate for the 2017 Parliamentary elections. and to whom the researchers refer “as a promoter of unquestionably seditious initiatives.”
That meeting would have had the objective of making Artadi aware of De Porrata’s ‘roadmap’, which would consist of “provoking an institutional crisis of unforeseeable consequences” that would transcend the international arena “to force a negotiation for the right of self-determination.”
The official note indicates that De Porrata had previously presented these plans to the president, “presumably referring to Joaquim Torra, and that it was he who urged him to show it” to the then spokesperson for the Catalan government.
After his meeting with Artadi, De Porrata would also have held a videoconference with former Minister Toni Comín, who was in Belgium after having fled from Justice. In this sense, the agents draw attention to the fact that Comín was “highly interested in the strategic proposal” of the investigated party.
De Porrata, whom the agents refer to “as an important ideological leader of the secessionist environment”, and a “potentially destabilizing and seriously subversive element for the Institutions and interests of the State”, would also have had a conversation with the former vice president of the Generalitat Carod Rovira, with whom he stayed “to talk for a while”.
