The former president of Barcelona's Palau de la Música, Fèlix Millet, has returned to Brians 2 prison, where he has been serving a sentence for embezzlement from the famous Catalan cultural institution, by order of the prison surveillance judge. The Catalan justice department relaxed his prison regime to an open 'Level 3' classification on the grounds of incurable disease, and his family admitted him to a private assisted-living facility in mid-January. The public prosecutor had opposed this measure and on February 13th the judge revoked Millet's conditional release provisionally until he issues a resolution on the substantive question of whether he will approve it or not. Before his admittance to the private centre, Millet had been admitted to the penitentiary health centre in Terrassa, and since this Thursday he has been in the infirmary of the Sant Esteve Sesrovires prison.
Millet, 86, obtained the Level 3 regime last October, which allows him to leave prison every day and return only to sleep from Monday to Thursday. And, given his worsening health, Penitentiary Services allowed him to serve his sentence in a private and assisted facility, since he needs the help of another person to do all daily tasks. Millet was sentenced to nine years and eight months in prison and to return 23 million euros that he stole from the Palau, together with his assistant, Jordi Montull. Millet entered prison in the summer of 2020, eleven years after the outbreak of this major corruption case. The cultural entity has only recovered 12 million euros and the Barcelona Audience court is to liquidate more of the assets seized from the two defendants. Montull also obtained the third degree, but the judge returned him to an ordinary prison regime.
In addition, the former manager of the modernista concert hall has two further cases open for concealing from the court income from housing rentals and for the disappearance of valuables from his home, allegedly with the intention of avoiding his obligation to compensate the Palau for the plunder he perpetrated for decades. His failure to pay the civil liability imposed by the court was one of the factors that the penitentiary surveillance judge took into account to revoke the open prison regime that he had previously requested.