Madrid Prosecutor’s Office requested this The lawsuit filed against him in the Madrid court Xabi Alonso Due to possible fraud against the Treasury in 2013 and 2014The Supreme Court recently approved his acquittal in similar incidents, referring to 2010 and 2012, on the grounds that “there is no new element” to suggest that the investigation continues.
In a letter dated January 19 and accessible to EFE, the Economic Crimes Prosecutor of the Madrid Public Prosecutor’s Office deals with the provisional dismissal and archiving of the procedure followed in the Instruction Court No. 52 of Madrid. The criteria of the Organic Statute of the Prosecutor’s Office are “and inspired by the constitutional principles contained in Article 124 of the Constitution, legality, objectivity and impartiality.”
He does this “on time” There are no new elements that would allow us to discuss it again The existence of fraud and simulation in the contract dated 1 August 2009, from which subsequent settlements by the AEAT (Tax Authority) resulted and which formed the basis for the submission of our complaints against the former football player and the current coach. Bayer Leverkusen.
The document therefore refers to the Supreme Court’s decision of October 24, which confirmed the acquittal of Xabi Alonso in the trial. He is accused of defrauding the Treasury of approximately two million euros between 2010 and 2012. The Supreme Court rejected the objection filed by the Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office against the decision of the Madrid High Court of Justice, which confirmed the former football player’s acquittal decision given by the Regional Court.
This procedure, very similar to the one that remained open, focused on the contract signed by Xabi Alonso dated August 1, 2009. Transferred the use of image rights to Kırcaali companyIt is based on the Portuguese island of Madeira. According to the lawyers and the Prosecutor’s Office, this was a simulated legal transaction designed as a strategy to defraud the Spanish public treasury, thus obscuring the correct taxation of income linked to the footballer’s image rights.
However, the Supreme Court differentiated this process from other processes involving professional football players convicted by the Barcelona Court, and in some of these cases the high court upheld the conviction, explaining that those convicted in the first instance court and these cases were not comparable. Alonso was acquitted.
The prosecutor’s office recalls that in June 2019 it filed a complaint against Alonso, Iván Zaldúa and Ignasi Maestre for a possible crime against the Public Treasury in the 2013 personal income tax in the amount of 572,000 euros. Complaint expanded to similar acts committed in 2014 This means a fraud of 840,000 euros.
According to the Economic Crimes Prosecutor, the Prosecutor’s Office supported this fraud “in an alleged fraudulent operation conceived in 2009 and used between 2010 and 2012, and will continue in the period 2013 and 2014.” This process has been temporarily canceled in 2021 Until the Supreme Court determines the penalty for the first case. And since the Supreme Court has confirmed the acquittals given by the Regional Court of Madrid and the High Court of Justice of Madrid, the Prosecutor’s Office requests, with reference to the court decision, the file of the case in which the three defendants had previously requested the same. TS.