After the path of the millionaire heritage of the philanthropist Pere Mir: “They investigate me because he designated me as his executor” | Economy | EUROtoday

A couple of days after the Mossos d’Esquadra registered on April 9 their domicile for an alleged case of unfair administration and improper appropriation of the millionaire inheritance of the businessman Pere Mir by way of two foundations (Cellex and Mir Puig), the director of the Vall d’Hebron Institut d’Oncologia (Vhio), Josep Tabernero, acknowledged persona within the Catalan well being digital to a number of employees of the company.

“I want to inform you that I am one of the people who are part of this investigation. I have no link with the aforementioned foundations, but Mr. Pere Mir designated me as one of the albaceas to manage his assets,” admits tabernero within the letter to which the nation has had entry. “For this reason, within the proceedings of an open investigation, a few days ago the police made a record in my house with the aim of consulting documentation that would help clarify some of the facts that are being investigated.” Tabernero asks that this “unpleasant issue is clarified” as quickly as doable, however makes no reference to its innocence or guilt. “Research has nothing to do with Vhio And I want to send a message of tranquility to its professionals, ”he concludes.

Tabernero, a recognized investigator in Catalonia and member of the Advisory Committee of the Department of Health for the reorganization of the health system, is one of the three testamentary albaceas that the Court of Instruction 12 of Barcelona investigates for an alleged irregular use of MIR’s inheritance. The other two are Jordi Segarra (Vice President of the Board of Trustees of VHIO and very close to the scientist) and the lawyer Juan Francisco Capellas. They were all arrested, but they did not pay court.

Mir, a chemical entrepreneur who made a great fortune to discover a formula to obtain formalol from wood, dedicated a good part of his life to scientific philanthropy. Without offspring, he died in 2017 and his inheritance was channeled through its two foundations, Mir-Puig (founded in 1978) and Cellex (2003), to maintain donations to scientific projects. The president of both patronatos was until April 14 the Segarra himself, but the Court of Instruction number 12 of Barcelona ceased the same day that the administration of both foundations and four other linked commercial companies transferred to the Department of Justice.

The origin of the conflict dates back to 2023. One of the managers of Mir’s old company, Àngel Surroca, questioned the management of Segarra about the assets of the entrepreneur and denounced the creation of satellite companies linked to Mir’s legacy with a commercial nature.

According to The avant -gardethat the case advanced, Pere Mir’s heritage became about 120 million euros in 2014, three years before his death. The businessman lived with his wife in Switzerland, but moved to Catalonia to receive medical treatment. It was then that the Tax Agency demanded about 70 million euros to marriage and both parties entered a legal litigation. After his death, Surroca denounced that only 15 million euros of the entire assets of the businessman had finally ended in the coffers of the Foundation, and that the testamentary would have intervened to disintegrate the economic legacy towards other non -philanthropic destinations.

In the four companies intervened by the Mossos, whose corporate purpose is among others the “rental of real estate on its own”, Tabernero had participated at some point, as recorded in the Official Gazette of the Digital Mercantile Registry. The oncologist detached from his business positions in 2023, the same year that Surroca denounced the alleged bad praxis to the Mossos. Sources from the director of the director of VHIO say that the person in charge is “quiet.”

A great a part of the funds for analysis and science come by way of personal or specific donations. The Cellex Foundation was one of many entities that supplied the best financial quantity to the well being system, and Marina Geli, Minister of Health of the Generalitat between 2003 and 2010, got here to confess that Cellex was subsequent to La Caixa the primary donor of the system through the first years of his mandate.