The National High Court will decide today whether to prosecute Pujol or to absolve him of criminal liability for dementia
If he decides to exclude him from the trial, Pujol may leave the National High Court without any criminal responsibility and the remaining defendants, such as his son Jordi, shall be questioned.
Former President of the Generalitat Jordi Pujol is summoned to the National High Court on Monday to be tried for his hidden fortune in Andorra, and the court will decide today whether he is in a position to testify and face criminal proceedings after being examined by a coroner.
The National High Court has so far allowed Pujol to follow the trial telematically, but today it has summoned him to the court to be examined by the local doctor at his residence in San Fernando de Henares (Madrid) before the turn of the accused's statements begins.
After the forensic examination, the court presided over by Judge Ricardo De Prada will decide whether Jordi Pujol, 95 , whose cognitive problems were confirmed by forensics in November, is in a position to face trial or whether, on the contrary, the case against him should be dismissed for "over-dementia."
If the court decides to remove him from the proceedings, Pujol may leave the National High Court without any criminal liability and the accused shall be questioned. The eldest son , Jordi, who, according to the Public Prosecutor's Office, was the principal manager of the illegal commissions of businessmen and of the family estate, will most likely testify.
If the court decides that the trial against the former President of the Generalitat should proceed, this morning's session would begin with the interrogation, in which he would have the right not to testify or to answer only part of the questions put to him.
The decision to force Pujol to go to the National High Courthas caused a great deal of dustamong the independence parties (which Junts and ERC have described as "derision"), and the President of the Generalitat, Salvador Illa, asked the National High Court to act "in good faith".
The Public Prosecutor's Office requests 9 years' imprisonment for Jordi Pujol on the grounds that the source of the family's hidden fortune in Andorra was corrupt. In November, at the beginning of the trial, the defence requested his acquittal a few days after being hospitalized for pneumonia.
Jordi Pujol, who was president of the Generalitat from 1980 to 2003, is accused of forming an illegal association with his seven children and his already deceased wife to acquire illegal commissions from businessmen close to CDC in exchange for public awards and contracts.
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