Former Catalan president amassed huge fortune through crime, judge says

Jordi Pujol, his wife Marta Ferrusola, his seven children and 18 other individuals linked to the family will be charged

A Spanish judge plans to charge the former Catalan president Jordi Pujol, along with his wife Marta Ferrusola, his seven children and 18 other individuals linked to the family, with forming a criminal organisation that used its political influence to amass a disproportionate fortune".

Pujol was the first democratically elected president of Catalonia after the end of the Franco dictatorship at the end of the 1970s, a position he held for 23 years, during which time his Convergencia i Unio party dominated the Catalan political scene.