During the peak phase of the process, police investigations on Catalans supposedly linked to it accumulated, whether true or not. In the so-called Information Processing Support Group (Gati), a registry in which ongoing investigations are recorded to avoid duplication, a good number of them are collected. For example, the “expansion of the investigation into ownership of assets in Switzerland by Xavier Trias” (registered on November 27, 2014, two months after the publication in El Mundo of the false report about the then mayor of Barcelona).
Another refers to an alleged “irregular financing system of ERC through the former magistrate of the Superior Court of Catalonia Eduard Bajet Royo” (6/5/2015)
Also an alleged complaint from the “president of the Catalonia-Israel Chamber of Commerce, who wants to denounce that he has paid for trips to Israel for Artur Mas (...) and that they have taken millions from him at the Barcelona city council, requesting illegal commissions for contracts. ions” (6/5/2015)
A possible corruption plot in the Sagrada Familia (11/5/2015)
The family of President Artur Mas is always present in these types of investigations. This is how investigations are reported on alleged “fraudulent movements of capital outside of Spain, by members of the Rakosnik family (to which the wife of the president of the Generalitat of Catalonia belongs (...)”
Also referred to is an alleged “account in Liechtenstein in the LGT Bank, number 2005082 with the opening document in the name of Patricia Mas Rakosnik, with a balance of 1,970,710.40 euros.” (4/3/2016)
Other references point to investigations into those considered possible front men for Mas. Jordi Vilajoana, former Minister of Culture of the Generalitat and Secretary General of the Presidency of the Government and Sixte Cambra, “currently and since January 18, 2011, president of the port of Barcelona.” (2/24/2015) This reference concludes by warning that “this investigation coincides with several of the General Council of the Judiciary.”
