Catalan president Carles Puigdemont was mayor of Girona between 2011 and 2016. Spanish police carried out searches on Tuesday across Girona, a fiefdom of Catalonia's pro-separatist president Carles Puigdemont, as part of probe into suspected graft at a local water company, police said. The operations centres on the activities of Girona water supply company Salt i Sarria, it added. The probe concerns the activities of the water company when Puigdemont was mayor of Girona, according to conservative daily newspaper La Razon which splashed the investigation on its front page. They have also opened a criminal probe into the over 700 Catalan mayors who have offered to help stage the referendum.

Source: The Local September 19, 2017 12:00 UTC