Madrid’s Order Court No. 31 agreed to refer the case to the County Court About the origin of the wealth of the former Vice President of the Government rodrigo rat He is about to stand trial after seven years of investigation into a procedure in which more than 70,000 documents have accumulated.
In a note, the Madrid Supreme Court of Justice (TSJM), therefore, He will sit on the 17th rostrum investigated for his crimes. money laundering, corruption and tax crime between individuals.
However, while the court awaits the investigation of the assets of those investigated, who have not yet paid the amounts requested by the judicial authority, the relevant legal responsibility continues to be processed, the note states.
In March 2021, the head of the court, Antonio Serrano Arnal, decided to prosecute the former Vice President of the Government and 16 other individuals and entities for possible commercial corruption, money laundering and tax evasion charges.
Therefore, the Madrid Court will have to decide. prosecutes Rato as the author of eleven crimes against the Treasury between 2005 and 2015a money laundering and another corruption offense between individuals in the delivery of advertising campaigns to the Zenith and Publicis agencies of the bank during his time at the head of the organization.
The prosecutor’s office claims that between 2005 and 2015, in addition to the foreign movable capital revenues that were not declared to the Treasury, a total of 15.6 million Euros of unfair capital increase was made and 7.4 million Euros were defrauded to the Corporate Tax.
This should be added to the last digit taxation of professional services through companiesThe defrauded installments will amount to 8.5 million euros.
see also “sensible tips” The former minister, who is chairman of Bankia, said the company had improperly received commissions for advertising contracts related to mergers and IPOs with Publicis and Zenith, and that these commissions would come from various companies that had managed to “cloud the source of the money”.
Rato, Miguel Ángel Montero, a former director of several companies affiliated with Rato, or Ramiro Sánchez de Lerín, the former general secretary of Telefónica, among others, are accused of tax crimes.
in money laundering there’s also someone who had a brother-in-law at the time, Santiago Alarco; while José Manuel Fernández Norniella is involved in corruption between individuals, former “right-hand man” of the former ministeror Teresa Arellano, Rato’s secretary.