Director of Catalonia’s Anti-fraud Office plotted against Artur Mas and aimed to avoid a pro-independence majority
The political scandal following leaked recordings that revealed conversations between current Spanish Minister for Home Affairs, Jorge Fernández Díaz, and Director of Catalonia’s Anti-fraud Office, Daniel De Alfonso, trying to smear Catalonia’s main pro-independence parties continues. New tapes published this Thursday bySpanish newspaper ‘Público’ suggest that De Alfonso planned to replace former Catalan President, Artur Mas, with Germà Gordó, the Catalan Minister for Justice at the time of the conversation. Former Catalan Minister for Home Affairs, Ramon Espadaler, and some businessmen allegedly agreed with the plan, De Alfonso tells Fernández Díaz on the leaked recording. In his appearance before the Parliament’s Commission for Institutional Affairs this Thursday, De Alfonso considered himself “a scapegoat” and accused the parties in the Catalan Chamber of being “hypocritical”.
June 23, 2016 06:34 PM