Eleven senior government officials have assets worth more than one million

The Minister of Economy, Natàlia Mas, during her speech in Parliament this Tuesday. Quique García (EFE)

Eleven senior officials of the Generalitat de Catalunya have assets worth more than one million euros, and the Minister of Economy, Natàlia Mas, is the one with the greatest wealth among the members of the ERC Government, with assets worth of about 900,000 euros.

This is clear from the declaration of assets of the members of the Government, published on the Transparency portal and updated with the assets of the new directors and the rest of senior officials who joined the Catalan executive after the departure of Junts from the Catalan Executive.

Natàlia Mas is the counselor who declares the most assets and surpasses the rest of the members of the Government, including all those of ERC who started the legislature, although her declaration also includes liabilities that rise to 685,073 euros.

Mas has 50% of two apartments valued at 650,000 and 350,000 euros, a pension plan of 125,000, shares worth about 250,000 and 23,000 euros in the bank.

The Minister of Foreign Action, Meritxell Serret, follows Mas in the wealth classification of the new directors, with assets valued at 298,000 euros and no debt, followed by the head of Universities, Joaquim Nadal, with 255,000 euros in assets and Also debt free.

For her part, the declaration of assets of the Minister of Justice, Gemma Ubasart, includes assets for 268,390 euros and liabilities valued at 199,200, and in that of the new head of Territory, Juli Fernández, assets valued at 157,752.65 euros and 95,735 .45 euros in liabilities.

In the documentation posted on the Transparency portal there is no information on the assets of the Minister of Health, Manel Balcells, nor of the Minister of Social Rights, Carles Campuzano.

High ranks

The circumstance occurs that the previous Minister of Economy, Jaume Giró (Junts), was the one who declared the most assets of the entire Catalan government, including senior officials, with assets valued at 7.1 million, including a boat.

Now, after the departure of Giró, the person who declares the most assets of the entire Government is the director of the Institut d'Estudis de l'Autogovern and former ERC secretary general, Joan Ridao, with 2.2 million, who leads a group of up to eleven senior officials with assets of more than one million euros.

This group includes Gabriel Capella, a senior Health officer since 2016 and who has 1.74 million;

the director of the Public Security Institute of Catalonia, Marta Roca (1.5 million), the director of Services of the Ministry of Territory, Teresa Prohias (1.48 million) or the president of the Catalan Competition Authority, Roger Loppacher , with assets valued at 1.27 million euros.

The Government delegate in the United Kingdom and Ireland, Francesc Claret, also declares more than one million euros in assets (1.26), as well as two senior officials from the Ministry of the Presidency, Carme Figueras and Maria Àngels Arróniz, with 1 .24 and 1.14 million, respectively.

Marta Espasa, Secretary of the Treasury, declares 1.1 million, Josep Lluís García, head of the legal department of the Ministry of Economy, has 1,

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