May 2022 - Information about Spain’s interference in Andorra becomes public

On 16 May 2022, Spanish newspaper El Pais published recordings from former Spanish National Police Commissioner José Manuel Villarejo, a member of the so-called Patriotic Police, that revealed that the Spanish government engaged in a covert project aimed at crushing the Catalan independence movement, known as Operation Catalonia. The audios, and a later interview by Villarejo, confirm that Spain targeted and threatened BPA in an attempt to find incriminating information about the former-President of Catalonia’s government, Jordi Pujol. 

The audios also confirmed what BPA had argued since 2016, that Spanish officials had threatened BPA’s director to leak compromising data on Catalan officials and that "they would act against BPA" using the "American administration” (FinCEN) as a proxy if BPA did not comply.