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    <title><![CDATA[Ara in English - BPA intervention]]></title>
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      <title><![CDATA[The ex-Chavista minister who unites the Leire Díez case, the Zapatero case and... the Pujol case]]></title>
      <link><![CDATA[https://en.ara.cat/politics/the-ex-chavista-minister-who-unites-the-leire-diez-case-the-zapatero-case-and-the-pujol-case_1_5767555.html]]></link>
      <description><![CDATA[<p><img src="https://static1.ara.cat/clip/c07c9e3e-ad88-4937-8819-047f6da3b1aa_16-9-aspect-ratio_default_0.jpg" /></p><p>In recent weeks, political news in Madrid has been marked by judicial investigations. The outbreak of the <a href="https://en.ara.cat/politics/who-is-who-in-the-psoe-sewers-criminal-structure-to-obstruct-judicial-cases_1_5750438.html">Leire case</a> and the <a href="https://en.ara.cat/politics/chronology-of-an-alleged-influence-peddling-this-is-what-the-udef-has-against-zapatero_1_5747053.html">Zapatero case</a> have shaken the PSOE and have once again placed Pedro Sánchez in a moment of maximum weakness. And there is a repeated name that appears linked to the so-called <em>plumber </em>of the PSOE and the investigation into the former president of the Spanish government: Nervis Gerardo Villalobos, who was Vice Minister of Energy in Venezuela with Hugo Chávez from 2004 to 2006.</p>]]></description>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Martí Odriozola i Marcé]]></dc:creator>
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      <pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 13 Jun 2026 11:00:41 +0000]]></pubDate>
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      <media:title><![CDATA[Nervis Villalobos appearing before the Congress investigation committee on Operation Catalonia]]></media:title>
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      <subtitle><![CDATA[Nervis Villalobos was also imprisoned by the judge investigating Begoña Gómez, but the Constitutional Court concluded that his rights had been violated]]></subtitle>
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      <title><![CDATA[The "reverend priest" appears in the Pujol trial]]></title>
      <link><![CDATA[https://en.ara.cat/politics/the-instigator-of-the-pressures-bpa-regarding-the-pujols-was-the-architect-of-the-leak-of-the-33-sovereignist-judges_1_5675207.html]]></link>
      <description><![CDATA[<p><img src="https://static1.ara.cat/clip/24a2c59b-e0a3-4496-b72c-f31067bb4860_16-9-aspect-ratio_default_0.jpg" /></p><p>"Reverend Father, I am the Mother Superior of the congregation. I would like you to transfer two missals from my library to the parish chaplain's library." The letter, written in code by Marta Ferrusola, went viral even before things started going viral. The wife of former president Jordi Pujol was giving orders to transfer money between the family's accounts in Andorra. And this Wednesday, it was the turn of "Reverend Father" to testify. Josep Maria Pallerola, who was the Pujols' first manager in Andorra, admitted before the court that he was nicknamed "Father" because he had "a priest's face." It was prosecutor Fernando Bermejo who brought the matter to light. <a href="https://www.ara.cat/politica/superiora-traspassi-llenguatge-ferrusola-andorra_1_1354212.html">famous handwritten note</a> that Ferrusola sent to Banca Reig. "I remember they called me 'Father' somewhat jokingly," Pallerola confessed.</p>]]></description>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Martí Odriozola i Marcé]]></dc:creator>
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      <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 11 Mar 2026 16:19:42 +0000]]></pubDate>
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      <media:title><![CDATA[Image capture of the National Court by Josep Maria Pallerola]]></media:title>
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      <subtitle><![CDATA[The former owner of Banca Privada de Andorra insists on the pressures from the patriotic police]]></subtitle>
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      <title><![CDATA[Villarejo testifies to the Andorran justice system that Rajoy forced the collapse of BPA because of the Process]]></title>
      <link><![CDATA[https://en.ara.cat/politics/villarejo-testifies-to-the-andorran-justice-system-that-rajoy-forced-the-collapse-of-bpa-because-of-the-process_1_5551519.html]]></link>
      <description><![CDATA[<p><img src="https://static1.ara.cat/clip/6401ef7b-1a73-46d2-8450-78f95aa43b18_16-9-aspect-ratio_default_0_x1178y11.jpg" /></p><p>Former Spanish National Police Commissioner José Manuel Villarejo appeared before the Andorran courts on Tuesday to testify in the investigation against former Spanish President Mariano Rajoy regarding Operation Catalonia. In his statement, the former commissioner reaffirmed his version of events and asserted that the former leader of the People's Party orchestrated the operation to intervene in Banca Privada de Andorra (BPA) as retaliation for the financial institution's refusal to cooperate with him in his efforts to bring down the leaders of the Catalan independence movement. Specifically,<a href="https://en.ara.cat/politics/judge-in-andorra-reactivates-operation-catalunya_1_5461301.html" >The Andorran judge wants to clarify whether Rajoy and former Interior Minister Jorge Fernández Díaz</a> They pressured BPA executives to provide information on pro-independence politicians to the <em>patriotic police</em>, within the framework of Operation Catalonia.</p>]]></description>
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      <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 04 Nov 2025 22:06:25 +0000]]></pubDate>
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      <media:title><![CDATA[Former police commissioner José Villarejo]]></media:title>
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      <subtitle><![CDATA[The former police commissioner appears in court as part of the investigation into the former Spanish president for allegedly trying to obtain bank details of pro-independence leaders.]]></subtitle>
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