The Anti-Corruption Prosecutor requests a sentence of three and a half years in jail for the previous Spanish ambassador to Venezuela Raúl Morodo and eight and a half years for his son Alejo and his daughter-in-law for tax fraud in relation to an alleged cost of about 4.5 million euros from the Venezuelan state oil firm PDVSA.
In its qualification doc introduced earlier than the Investigating Court 1 of the National Court, which final week agreed to prosecute the three for these occasions, Anticorruption additionally claims million-dollar fines for Alejo Morodo (3.7 million euros) and for his spouse. Ana Catarina Varandas (3.8 million), and considerably much less substantial for Raúl Morodo (378,700 euros).
In phrases of civil legal responsibility, the prosecutor additionally requests the cost of a complete of 1.3 million euros by Alejo Morodo and his spouse Ana Caterina Varandas for fraud of their private earnings tax returns for 2013, 2014 and 2017, whereas at ex-ambassador asks for 126,122 euros for the 2014 monetary 12 months.
This case investigates the alleged assortment of 4.5 million euros from PDVSA by Alejo Morodo by alleged false authorized recommendation contracts signed with the Venezuelan oil firm between 2012 and 2015, when his father was not in control of the embassy. .
The cash was allegedly laundered later by a fancy community of firms created by the son and different investigated, together with the previous ambassador’s daughter-in-law and two Venezuelan companions; certainly one of them, Juan Carlos Márquez, dedicated suicide shortly after giving a press release on these occasions.