The Madrid Prosecutor’s Office has requested that the case opened in a Madrid court against Xabi Alonso for possible fraud against the Treasury in 2013 and 2014since the Supreme Court recently confirmed his acquittal for similar events referring to 2010 and 2012 and “there are no new elements” to argue that the investigation continues.
In a letter dated January 19 and to which EFE has had access, the Economic Crimes Prosecutor of the Madrid Prosecutor’s Office is interested in the provisional dismissal and archiving of the procedure that is being followed in the Court of Instruction number 52 of Madrid, following the criteria of the Organic Statute of the Prosecutor’s Office, “and inspired by the constitutional principles and included in article 124 of the Constitution, of legality, objectivity, and impartiality.”
He does it “at there are no new elements that allow us to debate again the existence of fraud and simulation in the contract of August 1, 2009 from which the subsequent settlements carried out by the AEAT (Tax Agency) derive and which served as the basis for the presentation of our complaints” about the former footballer and current coach of Bayer Leverkusen .
The document thus refers to the ruling of the Supreme Court on October 24 that confirmed the acquittal of Xabi Alonso in the case in which he was accused of defrauding the Treasury of almost two million euros between 2010 and 2012. The Supreme Court rejected the appeal of the State Attorney’s Office against the ruling of the Superior Court of Justice of Madrid that had ratified the acquittal of the former soccer player issued by the Provincial Court.
This procedure, very similar to the one that remains open, focused on the contract of August 1, 2009 by which Xabi Alonso transferred the exploitation of its image rights to the Kardzali company, based on the Portuguese island of Madeira. According to the Lawyers and the Prosecutor’s Office, it was a simulated legal transaction, conceived as a strategy to defraud the Spanish public treasury, thus hiding the correct taxation of the income associated with the footballer’s image rights.
But the Supreme Court differentiated this process from others involving professional footballers who were convicted by the Barcelona Court and, in some of those cases, the high court ratified the conviction, explaining that they are not comparable, since those were convicted in the first instance and Alonso was acquitted.
Now 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 that would amount to 572,000 euros, and That complaint was expanded for similar acts committed in 2014 which would represent a fraud of 840,000 euros.
The Prosecutor’s Office supported this fraud “in the allegedly fraudulent operation designed in 2009 used in the years 2010 to 2012 and that would have been maintained in the period of 2013 and 2014”, according to the Economic Crimes prosecutor, who details that This process was provisionally dismissed in 2021 until the Supreme Court decided on the sentence referring to the first case. And, as the Supreme Court has ratified the acquittals issued by the Provincial Court and the Superior Court of Justice of Madrid, the Prosecutor’s Office requests the file of the case, in which the three accused have already requested the same, citing the resolution of the TS.
2024-01-24 09:36:52
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