Liechtenstein government has declined to cooperate with the ongoing tax fraud inquiry into foreign bank accounts held by former Catalan premier Jordi Pujol and his family, publication EL PAÍS has reported.
In a letter, Liechtenstein’s judge Michael Jehle told investigators in Barcelona that he could not accept their request for information because there were no indications that any money Pujol might hold in the state was illegally obtained.
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Pujol was only suspected of tax fraud, something that is not considered a crime in the principality, the letter explained.
Apart from Liechtenstein, Andorra and Switzerland too have stalled requests from the Barcelona judge presiding over Pujol’s case to supply information.
Pujol has denied that he ever opened or used bank accounts in other countries. Without mentioning any amounts, he told a Barcelona court that his father Florenci, who died in 1980, left a vast inheritance for Pujol’s wife María Ferrusola and the couple’s children.
However, Pujol acknowledged that he had kept accounts in Andorra and Switzerland last July.
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