The plot that splashes Cristóbal Montoro used A Maraña of Societies with which they would allegedly diverted funds of economic team. These are mercantiles linked to the main partners of this office that, according to the Tax Agency, They lacked material and personal means to execute the contracts signed with the office founded by the former Minister of Finance. The documentary that works in the summary detect that the first three companies were created on December 12, 2008, the year in which Montoro was appointed deputy for Madrid.
The Tax Agency identifies four mercantiles (the last one was created in October 2012) that received economic team payments between 2008 and 2015 “Uninterruptedly.” However, they put the focus on which they turned between 2013 and 2014 because in those years the investigated lobby was working for companies in the gas sector that They benefited from legislative reforms in exchange for important payments to the office.
Specifically, Economos SL, Tutman Prosecutor and Consulting and Diagnosis stand out, which were created before the same notary and in protocols “Immediately successive” What, in the words of the Civil Guard “could be understood as an indication of a strategy concerted by economic team partners, allegedly for the use of these mercantiles as instrumental societies, in which they also shared ownership with their respective partners.”
Testayros to hide money
With regard to Economos, founded by the Secretary of State for Budget Ricardo Martínez, Hacienda detected income of 3.6 million euros. The Treasury warns that it is not understood that “without assets affected by the activity and without personal means” could “alone” provide the services for which he perceived fertilizers of economic equipment. For all this, he concluded that Rico’s activity was the same “Before and then” of its Constitution and that economics exclusively billed the investigated office.
Similar terms pronounced from Tutman Prosecutor’s Office, a company constituted by Enrique de Vicente Tutor and Paula Vázquez Vicente and who received a total of 3 million euros from the investigated office and about consulting and diagnosis. From the latter, associated with the investigated Francisco de Asís Piedras, revenues of 2.5 million euros were identified.
Given this, the Treasury warned that the corporate framework created “patented” that the true owners of the investigated office “have been able to resort to the use of testaferros and screen companies to remove the gain from their illicit origin and hide their investment.” In line, and after detecting “high outputs of money”, the head of the Court of Instruction number 2 of Tarragona that investigates these facts, Rubén Rus, ordered to trace the final destination of the funds of this framework that is investigated for crimes of bribery, fraud against public administration, prevarication, traffic of influences, prohibited negotiations, corruption in business and falsehood in documents.
Alleged assets
In addition, they got the exploitation margins of the office under suspicion not excessively high thanks to the diversion of the heritage of the screen companies. In fact, on the occasion of the first published information about the alleged irregular activities of the team, they first proceeded to significantly reduce the net amount of the office number and, after that, dismantled the structure. In this way, the professional activity to Global Afteli passed, considered by the UCO as the corporate successor of the entity constituted by Montoro.
For the magistrate these facts constitute the epicenter of the cause, within the framework of which those harmed by the actions of Cristóbal Montoro would not have a place. So much so, that the judge has just dismissed the person’s personation of the investigation journalist Javier Chicote, of former Government Vice President Rodrigo Rato, of the President of the League, Javier Tebas and the founder of Podemos Juan Carlos Monedero, who requested that they be as injured in the proceedings in the dilation of the fiscal inspections to which they were submitted and of which the then minister of the Branch was subdued.
Chicote, Rato, Thebes and Monedero, not harmed
The judge dismisses all of them when considering that Montoro, as the head of the Treasury, corresponds The “Superior Directorate of the Tax Agency” And, therefore, you can know the complainants’ data. “We see that we are faced with a mere transmission of information, without including any order or mandate in front of Mr. M., beyond a request for transfer to labor inspection,” says the judge in his car.
With regard to Chicote, who uncovered the alleged irregularities that this court investigates, he explains that it cannot be deduced that the fiscal investigation ordered by Montoro to tell him were a direct consequence of his information about the minister and this despite recognizing that there is a “temporary coincidence.” In relation to Monedero, who was informed by email of his pending accounts with the Treasury, or with a while -who attributes the criminal case for his family fortune, the judge concludes that the minister had power to access the data sent his right hand in the ministry.
Thus, the judge – who does admit the personation of the PSOE as a popular accusation – prevents this procedure from becoming a macrocousa and focuses on the payments of the Association of Industrial and Medicinal Gases Manufacturers (Afgim). Specifically, it focuses on the suspicions of the Anti -Corruption Prosecutor and the Civil Guard about that they paid great amounts to the lobby in exchange for legal modifications that benefited them.
Specifically, he argues that the investigation reveals two moments in which these gas companies hired economic team, so that they would use their influence network so that legislative reforms were carried out in line with their claims. The first of the moments occurred when Afgim achieved a legal modification to obtain a reduction in the Special Electricity Tax and, the second, when in 2018 they got a fiscal reduction of the gas.