The Court of Auditors is trying the former director of the Anti-Fraud Unit and is demanding 205,000 euros from him.

The Court of Auditors (CC) summoned Daniel de Alfonso, former director of the Catalan Anti-Fraud Office (OAC), to trial this Monday for allegedly irregular payments of approximately €205,000 in three-year salary periods during his time at the institution. Of this amount, De Alfonso allegedly received €180,000, and as director of the entity, he would have "accounting responsibility" for the application of a system that the OAC denounced after his dismissal, and which benefited two other employees of the office.

Alfonso received the three-year increases from his previous term as a judge under the conditions he held as director of the OAC, which were much more favorable, with a 5% increase on his base salary, higher than during his time as a civil servant in the administration of justice.

The same system was applied to two senior OAC officials, and De Alfonso is ultimately responsible, according to the lawsuit being settled this Monday. The Constitutional Court is demanding the return of that money. De Alfonso is not required to appear at the hearing.

The judge applied the Anti-Fraud criteria to his previous term as a judge, which were much less favorable.

This judge was the second director of the OAC, between 2011 and 2016, and was dismissed by Parliament when a recording of a conversation with the then Minister of the Interior, Jorge Fernández Díaz, emerged, in which they confessed to irregular actions and conspiracies against the independence movement.

The Court of Auditors held a hearing on this case in March 2023, before realizing that there were two open proceedings for the same matter.

The OAC believes that the three-year periods should be paid based on the last accredited place of work and not according to category, as established by the Estatuts del Règim i el Govern Interiors del Parlament (ERGI), applicable to this case.

At that hearing, De Alfonso shifted responsibility to the Parliamentary Auditor of Accounts, who handled the Antifrau accounting, and there were no objections. Nevertheless, the Constitutional Court consolidated the two cases before reconvening the hearing.

De Alfonso's successor, Miguel Ángel Gimeno, revealed upon taking office that De Alfonso paid his subscription to the Palau de la Música with money from the Catalan Anti-Fraud Office.