Overview
- Spain’s National Court reconvened the Pujol family trial on Monday with testimony from longtime tax adviser Joan Anton Sánchez Carreté and businessman Jordi Puig Godés.
- Sánchez Carreté said he coordinated the family’s 2014 tax regularizations "deprisa y corriendo" and told lawyers he could not trace the movement of funds, recommending an external audit.
- He explained that documents later seized by police in an October 2015 raid on his Barcelona office were there to check those rushed filings during a tax inspection.
- Puig Godés acknowledged paying about 112 million pesetas (around €673,000) in 1996–1998 to a company of Jordi Pujol Ferrusola without written contracts and confirmed other sizable payments tied to ventures involving firms such as Iberoamericana, Ascot Inversions and Ibadesa.
- The court noted the reported death of defendant Carles Vilarrubí without yet extinguishing liability pending a certificate, the prosecutor dropped three witnesses for the day, and the court will hear more witnesses through Thursday.