Former chief prosecutor of Catalonia illegally investigated by conservative Spanish government
Various businesspeople also targeted by Rajoy's PP administration during the height of the independence push
The conservative Spanish government of Mariano Rajoy used the police to investigate, without evidence, the then-chief prosecutor of Catalonia, Martín Rodríguez Sol, as well as Catalan businesspeople such as Sol Daurella, president of Coca Cola.
This has been revealed by new documents published by news outlets La Vanguardia, ElDiario.es, and El Nacional, following Monday's revelations that various members of the independence camp were targeted in the same way.
A supposed report from the Internal Affairs Unit of the Spanish police listed prospective people to investigate, while at the same time admitting that "the information received is mostly from the internet and is not possible to confirm right now."
The document points to Martín Rodríguez Sol's links with the Catalan political party Unió Democràtica de Catalunya (UDC), and the "commissions managed by the lawyers of the party." The list also indicates a "possible existence of financial positions" in the name of Jordi Pujol in Switzerland.
The former chief prosecutor is considered to be a conservative and was appointed to his position in July 2012 before resigning just under a year later. During this period he had disagreements with the Spanish government.
The chief prosecutor opened proceedings against El Mundo for having published, a week before the Catalan elections, a false report on the bank accounts of Jordi Pujol and Artur Mas in Switzerland and Liechtenstein. Rodríguez Sol ended up standing as a UDC candidate in the 2015 Catalan elections, the last before the party was dissolved.
In relation to the entrepreneur Sol Daurella, the document sees a "possible irregularity and undeclared finances" of Carles Vilarubí, husband of Daurella. Vilarubí is a businessman who was linked in the past to Jordi Pujol and held senior positions at Catalunya Ràdio, Rac 1, and was vice president of FC Barcelona.
Another name that appears in the document is that of Carles Sumarroca, a founding member of another Catalan political party, Convergència Democràtica de Catalunya (CDC) for "possible irregularities and undeclared finances."