The Podemos party informed the National Court that it was abandoning the Pujol case, considering that the criminal action was already “sufficiently covered” by the anti-corruption prosecution. The group, accusers since the start of the case in 2014, gave up pursuing the macro-case a year before the family’s trial, which will begin in November 2025.
In a writing, Podemos’ lawyer, Jaime Montero, emphasizes that his role as popular accusation “has already contributed, through his initiative, to the purification of the facts investigated.” Podemos indicates that its presence at the trial is no longer necessary since it has already promoted the investigation into the case “from the beginning”, which served “to clarify very relevant facts”, adds the formation.
The National Court will judge former President of the Generalitat Jordi Pujol and his seven children from November 10, 2025 to April 23, 2026 for the origin of the fortune they accumulated and maintained for decades in Andorra without declaring it to the Treasury.
The prosecution is asking for a sentence of 9 years in prison for the former Catalan president, while for his seven children he is asking for sentences ranging from 8 to 29 years in prison, which is what his eldest son, Jordi Pujol Ferrusola, is asking for, as well as millions of dollars. -fines in dollars. They are accused of crimes of illicit association, money laundering, falsification of commercial documents, crimes against the public treasury and failure of execution.
The public prosecutor, for its part, does not address Jordi Pujol Soley in its indictment, while for the eldest son, it requests 25 years in prison and a bail of 7.7 million euros for the only tax crimes. Podemos requested sentences of up to 16 years in prison for the president and 20 years for the eldest son, who will no longer be able to claim when the popular accusation of the case is withdrawn.
According to the trial schedule, the First Criminal Section has scheduled the first days of this trial on November 10, 13, 24 and 27, 2025 at the headquarters of San Fernando de Henares, and already in December, month in which there is no that Two days of trial scheduled, the 15th and 18th, it will be transferred to the main headquarters on García Gutiérrez Street to hold the rest of the hearings.
After the Christmas holidays, the hearing will resume in January, on the 12th, 15th, 26th and 29th; In February, the Chamber set six more days, four more in March and six more days in April, hoping to finish the trial for sentencing on April 23, 2026, which coincides with the feast of Sant Jordi.
Alongside the former Catalan president, his children and the ex-wife of first-born Jordi Pujol Ferrusola, Mercè Gironés, as well as businessmen like Carlos Sumarroca Claverol and Carlos Vilarrubí, will sit on the bench.
39 witnesses will also testify, but not some claimed by the Pujol family such as the former leader of the PP in Catalonia Alicia Sánchez Camacho, about the meeting she had at the Barcelona restaurant La Camarga with María Victoria Álvarez, ex-girlfriend by Jordi Pujol Ferrusola, and which was recorded.
Fifty other witnesses proposed by the parties, such as retired commissioner José Manuel Villarejo, former police chief Eugenio Pino and other commanders, are waiting to be accepted or not by the court pending charges and defenses justifying their usefulness.
