“I don't know with what money those Chinese ballot boxes were paid on October 1, nor the support of Puigdemont. But I don't know with public money.” The sentence was pronounced the then head of the Ministry of Finance, Cristobal Montoro, in 2018. The minister recalled that the Generalitat's accountant was required to submit weekly expense reports for the Catalan government and that no embezzlement of funds had been discovered.
The meaning of the process It convicted the defendants of embezzlement, but did not determine the amount of public funds embezzled or refer to any alleged damage to the finances of the European Union.