A tax agency inspector testified in the Pujol family trial that the 2008 tax fraud year against eldest son Jordi Pujol Ferrusola has prescribed. Experts doubted if entrepreneur payments were for real services. The National Court continues with tax authority testimonies.
At the National Court's trial against former president Jordi Pujol, his seven children, Mercè Gironés—the eldest son's ex-wife—and eight entrepreneurs for crimes including illicit association, money laundering, and tax fraud, four inspectors from the Tax Agency's Catalonia branch testified on Monday, March 23, 2026. One inspector reviewed Jordi Pujol Ferrusola's companies Iniciatives Marketing i Inversions S.A. (IMISA) and Project Marketing from 2008 to 2011. She concluded that in 2008, Pujol Ferrusola evaded 89,244 euros as an individual, IMISA 55,162, and Project Marketing 4,375, but prescribed for penal purposes. For later years, she proposed assessments like 135,951 euros for Pujol Ferrusola in 2009, among others. Prosecutors charge him with evading 6,598,799 euros total from 2007 to 2012. Experts questioned invoices for intermediation services paid by firms like Copisa and Isolux for deals such as a golf club sale in Ronda, refinery expansion in Cartagena, solar plants in Alcázar de San Juan, or ventures in Mexico and Gabon. Prosecutors claim they were for favors in Catalan public tenders. No supporting documents for services were provided, only from payers, and the firms shared one employee. The inspector stated: «If no one provides evidence that the operation was not real, it was valid for me». ONIF experts will still testify.
