Pujol Trial Hears Mexico Deal Made Sixfold Returns as Witnesses Reject ‘One-Peso’ Claim

Overview

• Former Isolux executive José Gomis testified he multiplied his stake by six and said Jordi Pujol Ferrusola contributed about €2 million to the Azul Cortés venture.
• Gomis and another project executive stated that all investors paid their shares and that the operation was carried out legally.
• The prosecution maintains Pujol-linked Imisa entered the Mexican trust with a symbolic one peso for a 21.5% stake and later sold for €15.2 million, yielding a €12.7 million gain.
• Prosecutors are seeking prison sentences of up to 29 years in the case being tried at Spain’s Audiencia Nacional.
• In separate testimony on the Palamós land sale, witnesses said Mercè Gironès’s €4.5 million profit reflected the property bubble, and no Pujol family members attended the session while accused businessman Luis Delso was present.