Court of Auditors Grants Amnesty to Puigdemont and 34 Others over Independence Campaign Spending
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The judgment considers the disbursements to 1-O and the independent external action to be proven, but it extinguishes the possible responsibilities because it does not show that the money came from the European Union budget.
The Court of Auditors does not find any effect on the financial interests of the European Union, so it declared any responsibility for embezzlement extinguished and called for the amnesty to be applied to the independents.
The Court of Auditors has acquitted on Wednesday, thanks to the application of the amnesty law, the former president of the Generalitat Carles Puigdemont and 34 other former senior officials of the Government charged with the expenses of the "procedures".The acquittal arrives three months after the European justice approved the application of the amnesty law to the crime of embezzlement of which they were accused.In the sentence, the Court agree…
The resolution applying the economic amnesty to them argues that funds from the European Union were not used because the Generality says so.
The ruling absolves the accounting responsibility for the independence process demanded by the association Societat Civil Catalana
The Court of Auditors has decided to apply the amnesty law to the leader of Junts and former president of the Generalitat Carles Puigdemont, as well as to the others prosecuted for the embezzlement of public funds for the illegal referendum of 1 October 2017 and the proces. Thus, it forgives them the 4.3 million euros that they have appropriated in the said body for their indications of accounting responsibility. Thus, it is stated in a judgment…
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