Tomás Herranz, public prosecutor Hate corruption cha in Numariayou don’t doubt that Ana Duato “was interested in hiding his money” when in 2006 he went Fernando Penaa tax consultant who 67 years in prison is being questioned, and in the following years he began to pay half of his personal tax to the Treasury: “It does not sound like it is not the result of fraud.” Because of what happened, the representative of the Ministry of Public Affairs, who has already reduced the accusation, has asked National Court which opposes the protagonist of Tell me how it happened a 16 years in prison and they charge him a million dollar fine, after failing to make a deal with him as happened with Imanol Arias.
In 2006, as the prosecutor explained in reference to the actor’s tax return, Ana Duato “declared everything and paid her refund”: of the more than 936,000 she earned that year, He paid 409,000 euros to the State coffers, that is, about 43% of his income. That year, however, he would have decided to go to Nummaria’s law firm, who initiated the case, who would have been able to. He made a difficult financial plan for him with the aim of reducing their taxes and paying less taxes.
In 2010, the first years of their prosecution at the International Court of Justice, Ana Duato continued to say that their income was reduced by a third compared to 2006, when they paid about 220,000 euros. The Treasury, however, estimates that in that year there should be a tax of more than 880,000 euros, so, as a percentage, it would not be taxed at 25%.
A number that, moreover, has been reduced over the years. “Ana Duato had 40.21% of his salary saved by salary. How is it possible that the person who stopped this should pay 25%? Next year, this will be increased again,” criticized the public prosecutor in his story. the final report of the actress. “They end up paying a tax of 21.85% in a given year. It is the same as what any other worker who does not exceed 30,000 euros a year earns.”
“Unfair multiplication”
He did this, according to the judge and judicial investigation, through an international cooperation of companies that had “the only desire to cheat.” Companies that “were always controlled by her or her husband”, Miguel Ángel Bernardeau, was also accused in the case, which transferred her image rights in exchange for annuities of 100,000 euros. “Three years … it’s not going to be like that,” the prosecutor said mockingly, referring to the buildings as “empty shells.”
Therefore, for the representative of the Ministry of Public Affairs, “Duato’s bad behavior is evident because the work that was done was done.His aim would be to seek wealth unjustly based on the frivolous transfer of rights to images which, moreover, he knows to be false”.
Regarding Fernando Peña, who was questioned for 231 years in prison, which in the end amounted to 67 years, the prosecutor explained that “there is no doubt” that this tax consultant “is the one who advises, creates and controls the fraudulent scheme”, and that, when the clients went at that office, “not to know their tax liability, but to be told how to avoid” payments to the Treasury.
Therefore, the prosecutor considers that it has been proven that Peña “created and launched (…) a fraudulent structure based on the creation of a financial group, in which the European Economic Interest Group (AEIE) is also the main shareholder (…) and a local subsidiary The United Kingdom, which was established in the country by Costa Rican companies that the company uses for other customers who steal the same scheme.
Imanol Arias agreed
In contrast Emmanuel Ariaswho cooperated with the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office to ensure that he did not go to prison, Ana Duato chose to defend his innocence in the seven tax crimes he was accused of.
Because of what happened, he was asked to direct the theater of Tell me how it happened 32 years in prison and a million dollar fine. Now, months later the trial began National Courtand after the Ministry of Justice agreed with him for several financial years, Ana Duato’s prison sentence was reduced by half, that is, 16 years.
This has meant a small victory for Duato, who still maintains his innocence, according to his declaration at the time. Fernando Penawho was his tax advisor and the person who almost all the cases involve him. “They had no intention of doing anything illegal”Peña confirmed about the two players when asked by his lawyer.
