Prison for six of the nine Tax Agency officials detained in Malaga

06/28/2022 at 21:21

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The instruction distributes among the 31 arrested continued crimes of falsehood of public document, bribery, fraud, money laundering and of an economic nature for the use of irregular tax certificates

continuing crime of false public document, bribery, fraud, money laundering and of an economic nature due to the use of certificates of Tax authorities irregularly dispatched. This is the list of crimes that, according to judicial sources, the magistrate of the Investigating Court number 1 of the capital distributed to the 31 arrested by the National Police in Malaga, nine from them officials of the Tax Agency, for its alleged link to a plot of tax certificates. The case is under summary secrecy, although police sources already confirmed yesterday that 15 of those arrested they have entered in prisonsix of them being Treasury officials, according to information handled by the Efe agency and which adds that among those investigated there are also businessmen and managers.

This operation consists of Two phases. The first developed in April and the second, exploited by the Unit against Economic and Fiscal Crime (UDEF) of the National Police last Wednesday, June 22, and in which more arrests and searches were formalized. That day several officials of the State Tax Administration Agency (AEAT) among which there was a head of the Bureau, according to sources close to the case.

These sources added that the investigation by the National Police intersected with the one that the Tax Agency itself had already initiated after detecting the alleged irregularities through an internal audit and that both are being coordinated by the court of Malaga.

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