The Vox spokesman in Congress, Iván Espinosa de los Monteros, has deposited this Tuesday in the court the debt that he had pending to the builder of the works of his chalet in Madrid and has announced that his deputy salary will no longer be attached.
The Court of First Instance number 36 of Madrid had agreed to seize the deputy’s salary after the Supreme Court rejected the appeal that he had filed against the sentence that ordered the payment of a debt of 63,183 eurosto which interest for late payment and court costs had to be added.
This court convicted the Vox spokesman in 2019 in a sentence that was ratified by the Provincial Court and also confirmed by the Supreme Court, once the deputy’s appeal was inadmissible last December.
At a press conference in Congress, Espinosa de los Monteros reiterated that the Supreme Court had not condemned him “for nothing” and “much less to be disqualified because he has not judged me” and “what he has done has been to reject an appeal that I filed against a previous sentence from more than 8 years ago.” “I already said that I would comply with the sentence, because I was 75% right, and the I comply, but that does not imply paying”, he began his argument to conclude that he had tried to pay the money to the Treasury and Social Security, as creditors of the builder, who – he stressed – “is a dishonest man who closed years ago leaving behind also to Social Security.
“I have tried to satisfy the requirements through the Treasury and Social Security, but since I do not want to continue mired in this bureaucracy, and since the easiest thing is to put the money in court, well I have done it and there is nothing embargoed“, he pointed out.
According to the original ruling, Espinosa de los Monteros was the sole partner and administrator of the company Promociones Pedro Heredia 6 SL, which contracted the company Rehabilitation, Urbanization and Edification SL for the renovation works at his home, which is the company to which who owed more than 60,000 euros. However, his company was dissolved when the Vox leader presented a bankruptcy, although the reform company decided to claim that amount directly from the deputy.