In the trial of seven former executives of iDental, two police officers He defrauded Social Security of more than 23 million It cost euros between 2015 and 2018, and while they had debts for this concept, they diverted money from business networks to personal accounts and buying real estate.
The National Court resumed this Wednesday the trial of former cupola members of this group of dental clinics and laboratories, for which the prosecutor has sought between three and six years in prison and fines of up to 3.5m to 90.3m euros. A total compensation of more than 34 million to Social Security for the defrauded amount plus additional fees and interest.
The cops, who emerged as experts, said the group had not been found to be paid into Social Security since its founding in 2015 by the creators of the clinics and dental workshops. Antonio Javier Garcia Pellicer and Vicente Castañer Blascountil it sold in 2017.
They added that as a result of the acquisition of the group by the defendants, defaults continued in the second phase between 2017 and 2018. Luis Sans Huecas’s photo. and brothers Jose Maria and Juan Garrido Lopez and that José Luis González Sánchez and Domingo Bejarano Calabuig, accused during this period, were acting as precursors of their predecessors in the management of companies.
Adding the data of more than twenty provincial Social Security directorates, one of the police officers who prepared the expert report said, “In this second stage, the group stopped paying an average of one million a month to Social Security.”
Police experts say that one of the defendants complex frame consisting of more than fifty companies across Spain This made it difficult for the Social Security General Treasury to claim debts from those responsible who actually had to pay the social security of “a very significant number of workers”.
They added that the defendants also asked Social Security. payment delays seized the opportunity to evacuate assets and purchase real estate by paralyzing the embargoes imposed on the accounts of group companies and transferring funds to individual accounts.
“This business structure and instrumentalization caught our attention, and in a situation where there were pay issues, the group continued to spend a lot of money on advertising without fulfilling workers’ social security benefits,” said one of the police officers.
This hearing, followed by iDental ex-cupolas for a crime against Social Security, corresponds to a separate part of the main case still pending, for alleged fraud and other crimes. tens of thousands of people affected after the closure of the group’s 24 centers.
In this Wednesday’s session, two former employees of Associated Dental Institutes, the IOA group acquired in 2015 by the defendants, brothers Luis Sans and Garrido, testified as witnesses.
One of them is a dentist who was the medical director of a group clinic from 2015 to 2018. CataloniaHe reminded that at the last stage, they started to detect irregularities such as forcing patients to pay cash from patients whose dataphones were withdrawn, and that a person from the company went to collect the money once a week.
Likewise, a former head of the group’s Field of Work noted that Social Security payments started out on time and then generalized, and he thought there was a will to fix this when he requested a deferral “but he already saw that it wasn’t”.
On the other hand, a woman who works administratively in her clinic, Dentistry in Alicante He stated that in 2016 the group requested a deferral of payment to Social Security.