The former director of the IMF Rodrigo Rato, would have defrauded the treasury by € 6.8 million – Telam

The figure emerges from a report of the National Bureau of Investigation of the Fraud (ONIF), which revealed the Spanish press. Two years after his brief arrest in the framework of this cause that investigates the origin of your heritage, the agents anti fraud amount of income not declared by Time of 14 million euros between 2004 and 2015, the years under investigation.

In that period, the dues of income TAX, (Tax on the Income of Physical Persons, equivalent to profits) that should have been paid to a former politician of the ruling Popular Party (PP) is about 6.8 million euros, an amount that exceeds 120,000 euros limit for the tax crime.

Between 2009 and 2015, the years that have not prescribed, "the quotas amounted to a total of close to 5.4 million," says the journal The Country, who had access to the report of the ONIF, a dependent organ of the Spanish Tax Agency.

The former vice president of the government’s economic of the conservative José María Aznar was arrested for a few hours by 2015, becoming the first banker of weight in Spain to fall in the hands of Justice in connection with the management of financial institutions, which have a key role in the last great crisis that faced the country.

While it is imputed for crimes of money laundering, tax fraud, corruption between private individuals and the administration is unfair.

The research seeks to determine the origin of his fortune and to clarify payments, loans and business suspects that While he did through a lattice family abroad while presiding over Bankia, entity that was bailed out by the government of the current president Mariano Rajoy in 2012 to avoid bankruptcy.

In September 2016, the former politician was sat first on the bench of the accused to be judged by the case of the “card black” of Bankia, the scandal of the use of credit cards opaque to the treasury, which allowed the emptying of 15 million euros of the bank and its predecessor Caja Madrid.

the name of The former strong man of the PP, who chaired the IMF between 2004 and 2007, he appeared in the investigation of the “Papers of Panama”, the filtering mass of documents from the law firm panama Mossack Fonseca, which revealed the identity of numerous personalities from the world of politics, sport and entertainment with businesses in tax havens.

according To the report of the ONIF, panama corporations Red Rose Limited, and Westcastle, the british Vivaway and the Spanish Kradonara, “have been used for the concealment of income which escaped the fiscal control and whose beneficial owner was Out.”