Post by jinnatunnisha125 on Feb 24, 2024 23:23:26 GMT -5
Rodrigo Rato, former Minister of Economy during the governments of José María Aznar, still does not understand why his own party is exposing him to a media lynching that has not occurred with other people who have also taken advantage of the Government's tax amnesty. and are being investigated by Sepblanc. However, he believes that they can only accuse him of a tax crime. No seizure of assets or money laundering. And a tax crime only for the fact of having collected his remuneration as a director of companies such as Telefónica and Banco Santander through different companies, in order not to pay personal income tax . This is the message that Rodrigo Rato has conveyed to friends, lawyers and tax advisors whom he is seeing these days, after the maelstrom of the images of his arrest by the agents of the Customs Surveillance Service of the Tax Agency, the Last April 17, at his home in Madrid.
After a few days, and with the media pressure reduced, the former minister is leaving his house more and visiting tax and legal experts to begin his defense against the accusations against him. “ It will come to nothing” As El Confidencial Digital has learned, in these meetings, Rato makes it clear that “he is calm” because “there is nothing punishable about the accusations of money laundering and the seizure of assets.” “That will come to nothing ,” the former minister assured those around him. On the C Level Contact List other hand, the former managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) does admit that he could have tax problems, due to the fact that he had received his remuneration as a director of several Ibex companies through a company, which allowed him not to pay taxes on Personal income tax for that income. “It should have been done as a natural person and not through a company. Basically it is like what Juan Carlos Monedero applied to invoice Venezuela for the consulting work that he says he carried out. Rato admits that this could cause problems with the Treasury and that, in reality, it is what the entire investigation will end up with,” say sources close to the former minister.
The Treasury also has an open investigation into , who resigned on Friday as number three of Podemos, for having invoiced in 2013 through a company more than euros for advisory work for several Latin American governments carried out in . Treasury Report According to the investigation carried out by the Tax Agency, reflected in a report that ensures that he has assets of million euros, Rato was paid for his consulting work for Iberia, Santander, Caixabank or Telefónica through four different companies . Indeed, the Treasury has verified, according to that report, that Rato did not pay taxes to the treasury for said work , in addition to pointing out companies such as ,Cor Comunicación and as the companies it used to bill its services. After the scandal, the former president of Bankia has resigned from all boards. The incredible bond between Pablo and Iñaki Urdangarín The amount of money defrauded from the Treasury for failing to pay the corresponding personal income tax fee is million euros between and a figure that far exceeds the limit of 120,000 per year established by law to consider it a tax crime.