Overview
- Técnicas Reunidas’ projects director testified that Copisa won the Cartagena refinery expansion on the best offer, said no outside intermediary took part, and stated Pujol Ferrusola’s paid role “doesn’t fit” the procurement procedure for the €611,794 he received.
- On Tuesday, Copisa executives described Pujol Ferrusola as a trusted go-between and acknowledged multimillion-euro commissions to his companies without written contracts, calling 1%–5% success fees common in the sector.
- Businessman Jordi Puig Godés admitted paying 112 million pesetas to a firm of Pujol Ferrusola in the late 1990s with no contract documenting the services.
- Longtime adviser Joan Anton Sánchez Carreté said he coordinated rushed July 2014 tax regularizations after Andorran accounts were exposed and could not map fund movements, recommending an auditor instead.
- Investigators seized digital banking data, including pendrives, from the adviser’s office in 2015, which the defense seeks to exclude as beyond the search order’s scope, while prosecutors argue the family used simulated operations and offshore vehicles to move money.