Gonzalo Boye announces legal actions for alleged prevarication
Gonzalo Boye, Carles Puigdemont’s lawyer, has announced that they will take legal action against the judge of the Volhov case, Joaquín Aguirre, for alleged prevarication in the opening of a separate piece to investigate Puigdemont, the former president of the Generalitat Artur Mas and eleven people more of his circles for alleged crimes of embezzlement and treason within the framework of the alleged ‘Russian plot’. Boye categorically rules out the crime of treason, excluded from the amnesty if a foreign attack or interference with real danger against the State is proven. He assures that they will present a well-founded complaint for prevarication, maintaining that Aguirre directs the ‘true Russian plot of the process’. Furthermore, he considers that the magistrate misappropriates public resources, citing the prohibition of the Provincial Court of Barcelona to continue the investigation from July 2023 as evidence of this.
Threats of further legal action
Boye has announced that in the coming days they will present legal actions ‘against him and against others who are responsible’ for the alleged prevarication, maintaining that Aguirre leads the ‘true Russian plot of the process’. In addition to prevarication, he considers that the magistrate misappropriates public resources, arguing that ‘an alternative solution’ in the judge’s text translates into prevarication. He affirms that Aguirre has taken his cases to the Superior Court of Justice on two occasions, without favorable results, and criticizes his persistence in opening cases since 2016, describing it as an ‘obsession’ that results in a bizarre prosecution of people close to Puigdemont, with insinuations to attack the government of Pedro Sánchez.
Accusations of Russian interference and embezzlement
Judge Aguirre investigates crimes of treason and embezzlement of public funds due to the alleged links of independence leaders with Russian authorities and interference from Russia or China. He has charged a dozen people, including Boye, Puigdemont, Artur Mas, Josep Lluís Alay, Francesc de Dalmases, Elsa Artadi, Víctor Terradellas and Carles Porta, in relation to Russian interference in the Catalan independence movement within the Diputació case, opened in 2016 for subsidies to related entities in Convergència. The resolution refers to travel and expenses for the promotion of Catalonia abroad.
