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[Rob5091]

El Pais reports on the "Pandora Papers" from 2021 and we find Stonewg's CEO (Jaume Sabater Martos) father, (Jaume Sabater Rovira) working as a proxy to open bank accounts at Banque Privée Edmond de Rothschild, which just so happens to be junior's first proper workplace.
https://english.elpais.com/usa/2021...ds-of-offshore-companies-for-its-clients.html

In 2017, exchanges of information between the two firms [AFSI and Alcogal] became more frequent, with the intention of discovering the true shareholders of many of the companies registered. In May of that year, Alcogal employees asked AFSI for information on another beneficiary whose real name they did not know, and who was involved in a company incorporated seven years earlier called Tramuntana SA. The owner was Jaume Sabater Rovira. After doing an online name search, they came across a 2016 article in the Spanish newspaper Público detailing his role in the Catalan consulting firm EFIAL. This company was dismantled after its involvement in the embezzlement of public funds from several Catalan city councils. The process of dissolving the company began but curiously nothing was done about other companies registered at AFSI’s request. Sabater Rovira appeared as a proxy to open bank accounts in the Banque Privée Edmond de Rothschild in Nassau, Bahamas. He declined to comment, citing privacy reasons.

 

[Rob5091]

So is the drama over and we can go back to ignoring this team? Maybe ignore is too strong a word, but you know what I mean.

The drama is ongoing and getting better! The enormous trial in Barcelona of the Pujol family and their "buisness associates" has a link to the now deceased father of Stoneweg's CEO -
https://www.elpuntavui.cat/politica...-el-primer-alcalde-democratic-de-portbou.html

In some media he was considered one of Jordi Pujol's main contacts in the Andorran banking network.

The Pujol family trial who's who - https://efe.com/espana/2025-11-24/juicio-pujol-acusados-banquillo-hijos-empresarios/
Nothing strange about a backpack stuffed with 500 Euro notes!

María Victoria Álvarez is the ex-girlfriend of Jordi Pujol Ferrusola. In 2012 she denounced that when they were a couple they made numerous trips to Andorra, where the firstborn carried backpacks with a large number of 500 euro bills.

This trial seems destined for a "telenovela"!