By Monica Uriel MADRID, 21 (ANSA) – A total of 715 people, including politicians find that benefited the tax amnesty in 2012, are investigated in Spain by the Ministry of Finance for money laundering, said today the director of the IRS, Santiago Menéndez.
This list only the former vice president is known and former Minister of Economy, Rodrigo Rato (Popular Party, PP), who was detained for several hours last week while his home was recorded and is accused of money laundering, concealment of assets and tax laundering offense.
Menendez, who did not name Rato in his appearance at the Congress of Deputies, said he discarded that will be the names of the list, as requested by the opposition, because the law prevents it.
However, the name of Rato, who was also head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), was leaked to the press days before the search of his home.
list should politicians, judges, prosecutors and ambassadors, according to news sources.
In the three years since the law in force required to declare assets abroad have emerged 124,500 million, explained Menendez.
Switzerland is located at the top as largest number of goods, with almost 20,000 million , which is followed by Andorra, with 4,000 million and Gibraltar, with 260 million.
Rato traveled in the last six months at least three times to Switzerland. The fact that Rato declare their assets abroad was what blew alerts Exchequer, because the data did not match the statements made in Spain.
‘s When the money laundering investigation was opened and his home and his office were recorded.
On the other hand, the PP president, Mariano Rajoy, rejected today, thanks to the absolute majority ruling, the request for opposition parties to create a commission of inquiry in the case of Rato.
Meanwhile, they get to know details about the heritage of Rato as the fact that, according to published today by the economic newspaper Expansion, dozens of companies allegedly linked to the former minister investigated achieved a tax benefit of about 20 million euros.
companies formed a complex corporate network in which Rato was the manager and some others they were family members. Most companies incurred losses in recent years and some of them just had billing activity. One, Aurosur, barely had 4,300 euros in sales in 2013 but lost 5.3 million euros noted, according to Expansion.
Thus, the company could be discounting that amount of taxes until 2018, I started this year with 5.2 million euros. UR / MRZ
04/21/2015 20:36
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