Spain's Court of Accounts has agreed to begin an investigation of the accounts of the Diplocat network, the diplomatic offices created by the Catalan government, to find out how the budget assigned to Catalonia's international political projection was spent in the 2011-2017 period. This is the agreement reached by the court in a resolution to which the EFE news agency has had access. The decision is a response to the measures approved by the Spanish Senate on 27th October last year, as part of the application of article 155 of the Constitution in Catalonia.
The Court of Accounts, the Spanish institution that controls public spending, has requested budget information from 29 different bodies, and the now-defunct Diplocat network is one of these. The Diplocat initiative, itself abolished by the application of article 155, was a public-private entity serving the Catalan government and intended to promote Catalonia's international projection.