Núria Pujol Gironès says parents donated €585,000 for flat, denies knowledge of family Andorra funds

Núria Pujol Gironès told the National Court on Wednesday by videoconference that the flat where she now lives was bought with a donation of €585,000 her parents gave her in July 2014. She said the funds were used a few days later to buy the property from IMISA, a company owned by her parents that housed most of the family’s businesses; the purchase price was €495,000 and the remainder covered taxes. Pujol Gironès said she did not move into the flat until 2016, when she married.

Born in 1992, she said her parents divorced in 2011 and that when they reached a settlement three years later she had almost no income. She added that she accepted the donation after consulting her father’s lawyer, Albert Carrillo, who also represented the former Catalan president in the related trial.

Pujol Gironès denied knowing about her father’s business dealings or that the family held money in Andorra. She told the court she learned about the overseas funds from the press, shortly before her grandfather Jordi Pujol’s public confession eleven years ago.

When questioned by the state prosecutor, she said “they never involved the grandchildren,” that the matter was not discussed at home, and that she only learned details from media reports. She also stressed that her father, Jordi Pujol Ferrussola, did not travel often to Andorra and that, if the family ever went there together, it was during vacations.