The tenth section of the Barcelona Court has recovered 12 million euros after the execution of the sentence in the Palau de la Música case. The court has received more than half of the civil liability claimed from those convicted but eleven million are still missing to be compensated. The money has been paid to those who were harmed by the actions of the former managers of the cultural institution, Félix Millet and Jordi Montull: the Palau de la Música Consortium, the Orfeó Català-Palau de la Música Catalana Private Foundation and the Orfeó Association Catalan. Each of the convicts has paid a part of their patrimonial responsibility. In the case of Millet, 6 million euros have been recovered. Almost 1.6 million euros from who was his right hand, Jordi Montull; and almost 3 million euros from Marta Vallès, wife of Millet and her daughters, as his heirs, as well as almost 800,000 euros from Gemma Montull.
The sentence for the Palau case was issued in January 2018 and most of the money was appropriated during the first six months. And in the last year the recovery of 3 million euros has been achieved. According to an order issued this Monday, the court announces that it will continue with the "work to identify and recover the assets of those convicted so that progress can be made in the liquidation of the different injured parties."
The court is also waiting to receive the 6.6 million euros that were used to finance the CDC through the Palau and that the extinct political formation must return. This process is paralyzed pending what a court determines about the bankruptcy to which the party submitted.
A Barcelona court opened an investigation against the former president of the Palau de la Música and his former right-hand man for hiding income from the rental of his properties that were seized and, therefore, could not be put up for sale or rented. This November they are summoned to testify. The case was launched after the Fundació Orfeó Català-Palau de la Música filed a complaint once it found that the looters of the institution were hiding part of its assets from the court that is responsible for executing the sentence.
In addition, a Granollers court is investigating Millet for the disappearance of several pieces of art that had been seized. Specifically, the experts who went to assess the pieces found some works of art missing, such as a wooden grand piano, an 18th century headboard, some carved ivory tusks or a dozen animal figures, also made of ivory. .
And in parallel, another court also determined that Montull had collected the rent from a seized farm that reported an income of 31,500 euros, according to the prosecution. For this reason, he will be tried soon and faces a sentence of two years in prison for a crime of frustration in the execution of the sentence. Both former leaders are serving their sentence in the Palau case in jail. Montull achieved the third degree but a judge later revoked it, considering it premature
The court sentenced the former president of the Palau de la Música Fèlix Millet to 9 years and eight months in prison and his right-hand man, Jordi Montull, to seven and a half years in prison for the looting of the musical entity. The former financial director and daughter of Jordi Montull, Gemma Montull, was sentenced to 4 and a half years in prison, after the three reached an agreement with the Prosecutor's Office in exchange for her confession.
The sentence also considered proven that CDC collected 6.6 million euros in irregular commissions through the Palau de la Música that Ferrovial paid as sponsorships but that came to the party in exchange for public works awards.
