Pujol Ferrusola defence asks National Court to annul trial over alleged unlawful Andorra evidence

Lawyers for the Pujol Ferrusola family asked for the nullification of the trial at Spain’s National Court, arguing violations of fundamental rights, a generic and abstract accusation by the anti-corruption prosecutor, and that the alleged offences are time‑barred. The trial began yesterday in the National Court in Madrid.

Penal lawyers Cristóbal Martell, representing Jordi Pujol Ferrusola, and Jaume Campaner, for Josep Pujol Ferrusola, told the court that the investigation was opened “illegally” because it relied on international rogatory commissions with Andorra in 2015. They argued that Andorra has a reservation that prevents it from informing other countries when the matter concerns tax offences and offences against the treasury, and therefore that Spain obtained the information unlawfully.

The defence also recalled that on 7 July 2014 the Spanish newspaper El Mundo published the sons’ bank accounts and that days later Jordi Pujol acknowledged receiving an inheritance from his grandfather, Florenci.