The newspaper El Mundo reveals with great fanfare in its Saturday edition of the information possessed by the Tax Office on a considerable wealth of former IMF director and former Spanish Economy Minister Rodrigo Rato abroad. It is a corporate network spread over several countries having 26.6 million euros and includes properties as a hotel in Berlin and other securities.
Among the investigated transactions millions of euros collected in accounts Gibraltar by the three sons of former minister José María Aznar for eight years.
Rato was arrested last week, home and office raided twice and charged with tax fraud, money laundering and hoist goods, or conceal or dispose of assets to avoid paying creditors.
According to Treasury, the former deputy prime minister also accumulates suddenly a minimum equity of 26.6 million. The tax investigation has not seen it declared in its entirety. To this we must add a 44% stake in Hotel Catalonia Berlin Mitte, four stars, for which Rato and partners receive 17 million euros to rent.
Hacienda information indicates that this “corporate network” which Rato shares with his ex-wife and three children, is so complex that tried to hide.
“The Tax Agency concluded that Rato, in addition to committing an alleged crime prosecutor , presented a risk that required action, “appropriated El Mundo. “It is alleged operations despatrimonialización that occurred with great intensity in 2014 and so far today.”
Rato is accused in the trial for the fusion process and IPO of Bankia , the largest bank rescued by the crisis who chaired the former official. The trial judge set bail of 800 million euros of which 163 million are Rato. The information reveals that the Treasury feared that the former minister try to undo many hidden assets abroad so that they are not seized.
The Tax Agency learned, according to El Mundo, which Rato used societies as a vehicle for recovery than were actually personal professional services. The focus of this inquiry is society Kradonara, located in the luxurious resort of Sotogrande, Andalucia, and owned by London-based VivaWay with Gibraltar administration but whose real owner is Rato.
Hacienda calculates a fraud in the corporate tax 939 741 euros in 2011, 2012 and 2013 because Rato not declared in their companies currency movements did. Last Friday, the same newspaper reported that traffic exchange in various countries like Luxemburg and Switzerland in recent years amounted to 12 million euros.
“The Inspection moved cautiously towards Rodrigo Rato not suspect nothing, “says the newspaper. For example, legal sources provide the data for 1.78 million euros were received from Gibraltar in 2011, 700,000 from Britain in 2012 and 1.5 million from the UK and Luxemburg in 2013. The corresponding calculation corporation tax indicate a fraud of one million euros in that category.
Notes El Mundo that the prosecution has noted that according to the tax agency, “Rato has by itself or through companies high traffic business with countries that are at risk for having the current status of tax havens, for having been previously or have severe restrictions on access to bank information. ” According to the sources cited, “that clashes with their business and professional activity, which is essentially national and international poorly.”
It is for these data that the prosecutor ordered the arrest of Rato and blocking their accounts. “There is sufficient evidence concerning countries such as Luxembourg, Netherlands, Switzerland, Dominican Republic and Swaziland (Africa).
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