The Prosecutor's Office requests four years in prison for the former head of the Palau de la Música Fèlix Millet for hiding decorative pieces and other assets that he had seized, in the first of the two cases that he has open for alleged maneuvers to not compensate the cultural entity for the plunder.
In its indictment, to which EFE has had access, the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor attributes a crime of embezzlement of public funds to the looter of the Palau de la Música and requests that he be ordered to return the money in which the disappeared objects were appraised, which amount to 3,395 euros plus interest.
In this way, Fèlix Millet will sit on the bench again, this time as a result of the case that was opened in 2021 by a court in Granollers (Barcelona), after verifying that more than 40 people had disappeared from his house in l'Ametlla del Vallès. objects that were seized by the examining magistrate at the entrance and search that he carried out in 2012, to cover the civil liabilities derived from the sentence.
As the Prosecutor's Office maintains in its brief, after this entry and search, Millet was appointed depositary of the seized assets, which remained in his charge inside his home with the prohibition to dispose of them and among which are ten ivory figures of animal motifs, another three from African natives, two mallets and two carved ivory tusks.
However, adds the public ministry, the former head of the Palau "breached" his obligations to preserve the seized assets, which were not found at his home when the judicial delegation went to his house to look for them in March 2021, once the the execution of the plunder sentence, for which he was sentenced to nine years and eight months in jail.
In addition, the investigations carried out by the Historical Heritage Unit of the Mossos d'Esquadra to locate these assets have been "entirely unsuccessful," adds the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office in its letter.
This is not the only case that Millet has open for allegedly trying to circumvent his obligation to return the 23 million looted to the Palau de la Música: another court in Barcelona is investigating him, along with his right-hand man Jordi Montull, for concealing justice rental income from foreclosed real estate.
Montull also has a second case open for hiding the rents he collected from renting an embargoed farm, a case for which he will be tried on October 3 and in which the Prosecutor's Office asks him for two years in prison for a crime of frustration against the performance.
For a few weeks, Millet, 86, has been enjoying the third degree of prison that the Department of Justice granted him for his health problems in a private residence chosen by his family, so he does not have to spend the night in prison.
The Department of Justice granted Millet the third degree in October based on article 100.4, which allows facilitating the regime open to inmates for humanitarian reasons, but the Prosecutor's Office appealed it to the prison surveillance court considering that his health ailments were not justify that you enjoy the open regime.
On January 13, the Ministry decided to also apply article 86.4, which allows inmates to serve their sentence entirely outside of jail, without the obligation to return to the prison to sleep.
Until now, the Palau de la Música and the Orfeó Català have recovered only 12 of the 23 million euros from the robbery, six of them from Millet -whose goods and real estate were seized-, almost 3 from his wife Marta Vallès, already deceased, 1.6 of Jordi Montull and almost 0.8 of Gemma Montull.
