The trial of Borja Thyssen and Blanca Cuesta is suspended for alleged fraud towards the Treasury


Raquel DuvaMadrid

02/14/2023 11:07 a.m. Updated: 02/14/2023 11:33 a.m.

The defendants with their lawyer at Criminal Court quantity 15 Antonio Gutiérrez / Europa Press

Before the listening to begins, the attorneys have offered an knowledgeable report that they’ve requested to be integrated into the case. accusation, they pretended to have a phantom accomplice after the sale of the shares of Cas Capetó

The Criminal Court No. 15 of Madrid has agreed this Tuesday morning to droop the oral listening to of the trial for an alleged crime towards the Public Treasury towards Borja Thyssen-Bornemisza and Blanca Cuesta, after their lawyer has offered earlier than beginning the identical an knowledgeable report, which has requested that or not it’s integrated into the case.

The prosecution, made up of the Prosecutor’s Office and the State Attorney’s Office, has postponed the trial date to be able to look at the report, though there may be nonetheless no new appointment. The consultant of the Public Ministry accuses them of getting defrauded the general public coffers of a complete of 336,417.89 euros similar to the fiscal 12 months of 2010. He requests three years in jail and a high quality of 1 million euros for the couple, who this February 14 He arrived hand in hand along with his lawyer on the courts positioned on Julián Camarillo avenue.

According to the indictment, through the 2010 monetary 12 months they declared revenue of two.2 million euros, though in actuality they amounted to three.7. They bought a villa within the municipality of Sant Antoni de Portmany, in Ibiza, owned by the corporate Cas Capeto SL, of which the lady was the only real administrator, based mostly on the island and established in 2003.

The beneficiaries included the couple, a shell firm listed as Caribbean Breeze SL and a small proportion on behalf of different Dutch corporations: Princess Four BV, Hermosa Beach Holding BV and Martínez Investments BV.

The prosecution maintains that on this approach they tried to fake that there was a 3rd accomplice, by advantage of three public deeds of sale. The defendants submitted the private revenue tax return similar to the 12 months 2010 in its modality of joint taxation and indicated a capital acquire of two,206,527.50 euros from the sale of the Cas Capetó shares when the true acquire obtained amounted to three,792,564.92 euros, “thus hiding the quantity of 1,586,037.39 euros from the Public Treasury”.

Borja Thyssen-Bornemisza was already tried in December 2019 for one more fraud for which he confronted two years in jail. The Criminal Court No. 22 of Madrid dominated that it was not sufficiently confirmed that the defendant was registered in Andorra to save lots of paying taxes in Spain, after promoting exclusives to the journal ¡Hola! through the 12 months 2007.