The former president of the Community of Madrid Esperanza Aguirre wants to investigate whether the Tax Agency used its tax data irregularly. And he demands it after learning of the information published by this newspaper that the Tarragona judge investigating Equipo Economico, the office founded by former minister Cristóbal Montoro in 2006, has in his possession emails from the Ministry of Finance that They allude to the fiscal situation of the former president of the Madrid PP. The judicial investigation seeks to clarify whether Equipo Economico used its “influences” in the Ministry of Finance to benefit its clients.
“I would like to know those emails, what they refer to. The only thing I can say is that three days before the 2015 municipal elections, in which I headed the Popular Party list in the Madrid City Council, my 2013 income tax return was leaked, which was the year I I earned more money, and it was in the private company,” laments Aguirre, who defends that That leak “had very negative consequences” for his candidacy. to the Madrid City Council, as some of its voters came to think that it was like “a galactica” and that it was “out of reality.”
However, the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office rejected in a meeting of prosecutors that took place on September 26 that the content of these messages had criminal relevance, since a majority of them (19 against 5) supported the decision of the head of the department, Alejandro Luzonto reject the request of the prosecutor in the case, Carmen García Cerdá, which had demanded to delve into the investigation of the content of the messages from senior Treasury officials. These emails allude, In addition to Aguirre, the former vice president of the Government and former president of Bankia Rodrigo Ratoand at journalist from ABC Javier Chicote.
However, Aguirre has no intention of appearing in the Tarragona case, when the judge lifts its secrecy, because he considers that in his case it is not worth it: “There is no remedy, they can’t help me anymore…, there is no remedy for me“laments Aguirre, who also warns of the high cost of hiring a lawyer and a solicitor for this matter that occurred eight years ago, days before the municipal elections.
Asked if she considers it possible that a PP Government could leak confidential information of yours When she was a ‘popular’ candidate, Aguirre targeted those responsible for the opposition.
“It is true that I called the President of the Government, Mariano Rajoy, and Minister Cristóbal Montoro, but the ones who did not listen to me were them. [por la Agencia Tributaria]”, he laments in an interview with this newspaper
“The responsible”
“For me, it would be worth it to really investigate and see who is responsible for these leaks.“concludes Aguirre, who in 2015 was suspicious of the rest of the candidates to lead the Madrid City Council. “My statement is very correct from a fiscal point of view, no one could have put any buts to it,” laments the former Madrid president.
Aguirre once filed a complaint with the State Attorney General’s Office, which was then headed by Consuelo Madrigal, appointed by the Government of Mariano Rajoy. And when the Public Ministry demands information from the Tax Agency about the leak of the income tax return of the PP candidate for mayor of Madrid, this department dependent on the Ministry of Finance, then directed by Cristóbal Montoro, claimed to be unaware of the leak of private data of the former Madrid president, and even pointed to her surroundings.
But even today this explanation does not convince Aguirre, who believes that it would have been very easy to know who was responsible: “That is why I filed a complaint with the State Attorney General’s Office. It was unthinkable that no one from the Tax Agency had entered my tax databecause since I was named a candidate until the elections I received four letters from the Tax Agency asking about different things.
“It was impossible”
It was then that Aguirre “answered” the Tax Agency, which defended that the leak had not arisen from them: “I answered saying that that was impossible, because they had addressed me four times in that period in which I was a candidateand therefore, there were at least four entries in my tax data.”
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“And it’s true that I called President of the goverment [Mariano Rajoy] and to the minister [Cristóbal Montoro]but the ones who didn’t pay attention to me were them“, laments the former president of the Madrid PP in reference to the Tax Agency.
In the case that the Tarragona judge is investigating in secret, the executive president of the Economic Team office and former Montoro chief of staff, Ricardo Martínez Rico, remains under investigation; but also the managing partners of the firm Manuel de Vicente-Tutor and Salvador Ruiz Gallud. The latter came to direct the Tax Agency between 2001 and 2004. This newspaper has unsuccessfully claimed the version of the events of the executives investigated in the Tarragona court. Former Minister Montoro has always assured that he left the law firm in 2008.