Here’s a brief summary: In an effort to extract financial information on Catalan independence leader Jordi Pujol, who is currently on trial in Spain, high-ranking members of the Spanish government sent misleading information about an Andorran bank to the U.S. government’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, a central anti-laundering body. The result, ultimately, led to a series of controversies, including the bank’s expropriation and lengthy prison sentences for executives - outcomes that look increasingly unjust. The ramifications remain ongoing a decade later. Recent events have now given Andorra the opportunity to right these wrongs.

The Spanish National Court suspends the investigation against Nervis Villalobos, who was accused of attempting to steal information from a Venezuelan public oil company.

Fuentes Informadas published the transcripts of a conversation between former National Police Commissioner, and key member of Operation Catalonia, José Manuel Villarejo and a journalist, in which Villarejo states that he was ordered by a government official to stop investigating Andbank and instead shift attention to BPA, so as not to "bother a senior State personality", in reference to the former King of Spain, who had accounts in Andbank. 

Former directors of the Private Bank of Andorra (BPA) who are accused of participating in money laundering practices in connection with a criminal organisation led by Chinese businessman Gao Ping have filed a motion to recuse the three judges overseeing their case.

An Andorran judge has informed former Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy and the former Minister of the Interior, Jorge Fernández Díaz that they are being investigated due to a complaint that they pressured the Private Bank of Andorra (BPA) to hand over information on Catalan politicians that had accounts in the bank.

A new parliamentary investigation into the illegal actions perpetrated by the police under Mariano Rajoy’s government is set to be launched.

Former majority shareholders of Private Bank of Andorra (BPA), the Cierco family, welcomed new evidence suggesting that high-ranking members of Spain’s intelligence community and Andorra’s political elite had misled the US government in a bid to discredit leaders of the Catalan independence movement.

La Valira reports that members of the ‘Operation Catalonia’ gave FinCEN misleading information about BPA to trigger the notice and subsequent takeover of the bank and its subsidiaries.