Puigdemont's intermediaries established “direct links” with Russian intelligence, police say

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In 2019 summer, before the court sentence of the referendum of 1-O and the protest explosion of Democratic Tsunami, Carles Puigdemont's chief of staff traveled to Moscow with a handwritten plan to achieve Russian support for Catalonia's independence with two high officials and Russian intelligence. The Puigdemont team sought to create their own structures with official Russian aid for a unilateral break with Spain. A police report concludes that…