The Court of Auditors has asked the parties for their allegations in the case of the alleged diversion of funds for the illegal referendum of October 1, 2017 and the foreign action of the processafter the endorsement of the Court of Justice of the European Union (EU) of the amnesty law last week.
As reported this Monday, the supervisory body has agreed to resume the processing of the procedure, which had been suspended since it raised a preliminary ruling before the CJEU considering that the alleged diversion of funds for the Catalan independence process affects the community’s financial interests.
It was in July 2024 when he raised his question for a preliminary ruling and decided to suspend the procedure “until the resolution of the prejudicial incident,” ruling out ruling until that moment on the requests for application of the amnesty to this case.
Now, the body grants the parties a period of ten days to formulate the allegations they deem appropriate and “provide the documentation they consider relevant in relation to the origin of the funds used to carry out the expenses that are the subject of the procedure,” according to the press release made public.
The Court of Auditors emphasizes that the CJEU considered in its ruling that the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union does not oppose the application of the amnesty law “when the acts subject to the procedure refer to funds that do not come from the budget of the European Union or are intended for it.” To this he adds that the decision of the European court known last week “admits the eight questions raised” by the Spanish body, “answering that the law is contrary to EU law in the aspects it analyzes and rejects the allegations of the defendants who questioned” its “independence and impartiality.”
In this open case, the Court of Auditors has accused, among others, the former Catalan presidents Carles Puigdemont and Artur Mas, and former councilors of the Generalitat such as Raül Romeva, Jordi Turull, Toni Comín and Lluís Puig.
