“Last Wednesday, March 16 of the current year (2016), a meeting was held with Daniel de Alfonso (director of the Anti-Fraud Office of Catalonia) in Madrid for three hours.” Thus begins an informative note signed by two chief inspectors of the UDEF and incorrectly dated, at the end of the document as March 17, 2015, a year before it actually took place.
The report, actually a kind of minutes of the meeting, includes information on alleged illegalities of Catalan political leaders explained by the person in charge of the Catalan anti-fraud office (OAC).
First he talks about the privatization operation of the ATLL company, in 2012, for about 1,000 million euros, to the Acciona company, owned by the Entrecanales family. The operation would end up being annulled by justice.
According to the document, “the informant says that for this operation and contracting, Artur Mas [president of the Generalitat at the time of making the concession] receives an amount of money (they [De Alfonso] are told that 90 million euros, which, curiously, would represent 3% of the operation) that would be managed by this investment fund that operates in Guernsey, Belize and Barbados.” De Alfonso supposedly provided documentation on the subject.
The second piece of information provided by the director of the OAC refers to the fact that “an investigation has been initiated into the service contracts agreed upon during the period in which the current president of the Generalitat, Carles Puigdemont, was mayor of Girona. He tells us that his office has requested information from the City Council because he has indications of some activity that may not comply with the law.
And then it is stated that "it tells us about the purchase of works of art worth 3.7 million euros that are charged to the water bills, and that if it could be proven, it would be criminal."
A few months earlier, the CUP had denounced in the Girona courts the definitive extension of the water service to a private company by the City Council, led by Puigdemont. The case of the purchase of the art collection of critic Rafael Santos Torroella would end up coming to light later, but the UDEF had already received the first information about the matter. The prosecutor in the case was José Grinda, a member of Anticorruption and who has played a prominent role in many cases against independence leaders or linked to alleged cases of corruption in Catalonia. Finally, the case was closed.
