The Music Palace buys Millet's estate in L'Ametlla del Vallès at auction for 780,000 euros
The entity wants to resell the property to recover part of the money diverted by the former president
BarcelonaThe Palau de la Música has acquired at auction the property that the former president of the entity Fèlix Millet, who died in 2023, owned in L'Ametlla del Vallès. The property should be used to repay part of the money that Millet still owes to the institution, to which between him and Jordi Montull, his right-hand man, they have only returned 13 of the 23 million euros diverted.
The first auction was deserted, but in the second, held last week, and with a starting price of 0 euros, the Palau acquired the property for 780,000 euros, as reported by RAC1 and confirmed by ACN. The entity wants to resell the property, with an appraisal price of 1.9 million, to recover part of the fraud that Millet committed when he was president of the entity. The decision has been taken in agreement with the board of the cultural institution.
The Ametlla del Vallès estate consists of a plot of more than 4 and a half hectares, with a large house with two floors of 216 m2 each. The house has eight bedrooms and eight bathrooms, and Millet had an auditorium built, among other facilities. In the announcement on the website of the company IAG, in charge of the auction, images of the interior could also be seen, with majestic living rooms, such as one with a billiard table and another with an indoor pool with jacuzzi or a gym.
The thirty rustic properties, also in L'Ametlla del Vallès, belonging to the Millet-Vallès couple, valued at hundreds of thousands of euros, have not entered the auction. During the judicial process for the theft of the Palau de la Música, the court seized properties from Millet to pay the amounts defrauded and one of them is the macro-estate that the Palau has now acquired.
More than seven years after the ruling in the Palau case, the musical institution has only recovered about 13 of the 23 million stolen. Millet directed the Palau for almost two decades, until on July 23, 2009, the search by the Mossos d'Esquadra brought the Palau case to light, for which he would end up being sentenced to 9 years and 8 months in prison for having diverted up to 23 million euros of service in exchange for the awarding of public works. Millet He died on March 16, 2023 in a private residence, where he had been transferred after being granted the third degree due to his delicate state of health. He had spent two years and four months in prison for the looting of the Palau.
The return of the money, stalled
In 2020, when the sentence was final, the return of the money received a significant boost with the sale of the assets of the convicted. However, this process was stalled when, at the end of 2023, with the death of Fèlix Millet, his daughters Clara and Laila They declared bankruptcy and refused to accept the inheritance. This fact has caused a commercial court to intervene to carry out the bankruptcy, because until now it was the tenth section of the Court that was in charge of returning the money.
This is not the only time that Millet's daughters have put spokes in the wheels to delay the fact that the family assets are returned to the Palau de la Música. In fact, both are being investigated by another court for allegedly hiding the money they received in rent from another property in L'Ametlla del Vallès, seized by the courts. In this regard, they were summoned to testify in July by videoconference, since they went to live abroad after the scandal of the Palau case.
