The defense of former president Carles Puigdemont filed two complaints against Spain before European bodies on Monday in response to the refusal of the Court of Accounts to apply the Amnesty Law to the thirty former high-ranking officials of the Catalan administration from whom the expenses of the ‘procés’ are claimed. The auditing body, once the ruling of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) was known, which responded to the preliminary questions it had raised in 2024, reactivated the case and instead of applying penal oblivion, opened a ten-day period for the parties to present arguments and provide documentation proving the origin of the funds allocated to the 1-O referendum and the foreign action of the Generalitat.

“I will answer everything I am asked.” Although the president of the court judging Operation Kitchen warned her that she had been provisionally cleared, meaning any false answer could serve to reopen the case against her, the former secretary general of the Popular Party arrived this Thursday at the Audiencia Nacional eager to distance herself from any parapolice operation to steal information from Luis Bárcenas because at that time she “was certain” that “that person you are talking about” (referring to the former treasurer) did not have any document that could compromise the Popular Party leadership over its irregular financing. Words that could contradict a recording that was made public in which she asked former commissioner José Manuel Villarejo: