The National Court has set between November 2025 and April 2026 the trial against former Catalan President Jordi Pujol and his sons for allegedly forming a criminal organization that enriched itself for decades through corrupt activities using their political position.
In an order procedure, reported by Europa Press, the Criminal Chamber establishes a total of 55 different hearings spread over six months, establishing that all will begin at 10 a.m.
Judge Santiago Pedraz agreed in June 2021 to summon the entire family to the dock, with the exception of the former president’s wife, Marta Ferrusola, whom he exonerated due to her state of health after The defense presented a medical report in which he claimed to have suffered severe dementia, along with 11 other people, including Mercé Gironés, the ex-wife of the Pujols’ eldest son, Jordi Pujol Ferrusola, and several businessmen.
He charged them with alleged crimes of illicit association, money laundering, continuous crime of falsification of commercial documents, crime of frustration in execution and up to seven crimes against the public treasury. To guarantee possible civil liability of the latter, he asked Jordi Pujol Ferrusola to deposit 7.5 million euros and his ex-wife an additional 400,000 euros.
In this way, the instructor followed in the footsteps of the anti-corruption prosecutor’s office, which targeted the entire “clan”, demanding 9 years in prison for the patriarch and up to 29 years for his eldest son, while the prosecutor’s office targeted only the eldest son, his ex-wife and another brother, Josep Pujol Ferrusola, which earned them 25, 17 and four years in prison respectively.
In the order with which he ended the investigation, in 2020, the judge proposed to try the entire family for allegedly forming a criminal organization, taking advantage of their “privileged position of ascendancy in political, social life and Catalan economy for decades”. accumulating “excessive wealth directly linked to economic perceptions derived from corrupt activities.”
