Vilarrubí: "I resigned at three in the morning due to the doubt that they forged my signature"

Carles Vilarrubí was summoned as a witness in the case of Jordi Pujol Ferrusola in November 2014.

Thomas Osborne
Thomas Osborne
10 March 2023 Friday 05:25
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Vilarrubí: "I resigned at three in the morning due to the doubt that they forged my signature"

Carles Vilarrubí was summoned as a witness in the case of Jordi Pujol Ferrusola in November 2014. Vilarrubí, a long-standing CDC militant, had successively been general secretary and director of Catalunya Ràdio, general director of the Generalitat gaming entity (EAJA), executive in Barcelona of the Trébol Internacional group, owned by Manuel Prado and Colón de Carvajal, a man very close to the King emeritus. And in 1992 he was CEO of the developer of Port Aventura, in those days owned by Javier de la Rosa, with whom he broke up when the latter wanted to divert the public money approved by Parliament to finance the works into his pocket.

This topic came up at the end of his statement as a witness before the judge, as recorded in the audio of the session. The anti-corruption prosecutor Belén Suárez asked him if he knew the financier and asked Vilarrubí a single question, while showing the cover of a Barcelona newspaper with the photo and some phrases of De la Rosa talking about him: "In this procedure there is various documentation and Information has also been requested from various countries... Andorra, Liechtenstein, the United Kingdom, Mexico and work (...) a testimony from Javier de La Rosa (....) in which he specifically says that in these latest threats He talks about some threats, supposedly, they told him under no circumstances to mention Vilarrubí, [Carles] Sumarroca and [Felip] Massot as people linked to the finances of Pujol [el expresident de la Generalitat] abroad... ”.

The witness replied: "I can only say that for eight months I was CEO of the company that managed what would later become Port Aventura and I resigned the day after the Parliament of Catalonia approved a credit of 5,000 million pesetas, at three o'clock In the morning, I had to wake up a notary, because I refused to sign a check to send the funds to a De la Rosa company and I resigned due to the doubt that the next day they would forge my signature.... All I have to do is say".

A year later, on October 26, 2015, Vilarrubí was charged and the following day his home and office were searched by the police, in the presence of Villarejo. Like others involved in the case, the key was the testimony of De la Rosa, who in his conversations with the commissioner and in exchange for at least 150,000 euros, attributed to the executive commission agent relations with the son of the president of the Generalitat. Also the creation of Casinos de Catalunya, actually a company 100% owned by the Suqué family, which according to the complainant diverted 30% of its profits to CDC, the nationalist party. Although he did not appear as a complainant, another shady source from Villarejo, the multiple accused José María Clemente Marcet, also mentioned Vilarrubí.