The TSJC confirms opening a trial to Natàlia Garriga, Jové and Salvadó for alleged disobedience on October 1

He dismisses two appeals from the defenses of Jové and Garriga

BARCELONA, 12 Dic. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The Superior Court of Justice of Catalonia (TSJC) has confirmed the documents with which it closed the summary and opened the trial against the Minister of Culture, Natàlia Garriga; the president of ERC in Parliament and ex-secretary general of the Vice-presidency and Economy of the Generalitat, Josep Maria Jové, and also deputy and ex-secretary of Hacienda, Lluís Salvadó, for alleged disobedience in the preparations for 1-O.

In an order on Monday consulted by Europa Press, the court dismissed the appeals that Jové and Garriga filed against the decision to leave the case one step away from trial, and ratified it.

Specifically, Jové had asked to carry out more evidence before terminating the investigation: it is a request that his defense had already made and the magistrates once again ruled it out because it does not change the evidence that it claims "nor does it reinforce the reasons already asserted".

For its part, Garriga's defense asked to review whether there are enough indications to prosecute her and claims to file the case, but the court dismisses it and does consider that there are enough indications.

Garriga is being prosecuted for an alleged crime of serious disobedience, while Jové and Salvadó are also accused of the alleged crimes of prevarication and embezzlement for allegedly participating in the preparations for 1-O, when Garriga was director of Vice Presidential and Economic Services and Tax authorities.

The investigation into Jové and Salvadó was carried out separately from that of Garriga -she was investigated in an ordinary court in a case against 29 ex-Government officials- but when she took over as councilor and became a member of the TSJC, the cases were accumulated, and this process has delayed the procedure against the former, for whom the act of conclusion of the summary was already issued in May 2021.

Garriga is being investigated for allegedly intervening in the conditioning of a warehouse attached to the facilities of the Center for Telecommunications and Information Technology (CTTI) to use it as a space for 1-O.

When she declared that she was under investigation, the minister alleged that the ship was used on other occasions, such as in the December 2017 Parliamentary elections and for Covid-19 trackers during the pandemic, and recalled that at no time was it required by the Court Constitutional (TC).

Jové was one of the members of the Catalan delegation at the dialogue table between the Government of Pedro Sánchez and the Government, and the instruction states that he allegedly obtained personal data from Catalans irregularly through an agreement with Idescat signed on February 28, 2017, supposedly with the aim of preparing a census for 1-O.

The agreement had a duration of one year and was not published in the Official Gazette of the Generalitat (Dogc) or on the official Idescat website, which lists the current and non-current agreements signed by the organization, "so individuals Interested parties could not know that their personal data had been transferred or oppose such transfer, nor could they be challenged".

With these data, the letters addressed to the people named as members of the 1-O polling stations were also presumably prepared, which were partially intervened by the police in the Unipost registry.

The investigation also considers that Jové allegedly disregarded the mandates of the Constitutional Court (TC) against the organization of the referendum, and intervened "actively in the search for the premises where the referendum should be held", was aware of the date of publication of the convocation decree, and had files on his computer such as 'ballot model', 'table constitution minutes' and 'numbered list of voters' that coincided with the names of the electoral material found in the Bigues i Riells (Barcelona) warehouse. .

Among the indications against Jové and Salvadó, the instructor details that they made presentations to other States and organizations to obtain financing, and also that the Tax Agency was provided with the e-Spriu system, capable of collecting and managing and executing taxes for which " there were no powers" such as income tax, VAT, corporate tax and other specials.

The instructor also believes that Salvadó devised a program to standardize the processes and internal mechanisms for processing taxes and social contributions that the public sector of the Generalitat paid to the State, to "control and have the maximum possible information on tax subjects and on the paid quotas of the state taxes not ceded".