Overview
- The firm’s appeal challenges the Agencia Tributaria report recently added to the case, alleging investigative overreach and criticizing an eight‑year instruction without calling the accused to testify.
- The Tax Agency dossier cites €35.5 million in receipts from 2008 to 2013 and describes mixed fund flows allegedly used to disguise payments tied to gas companies, while urging cooperation with Germany, the United States and Luxembourg, including follow‑up on a 2008 Wells Fargo transfer.
- Investigators highlight a €300,000 mortgage amortization by Cristóbal Montoro that appears inconsistent with declared income and note the absence of his and his brother’s bank records, also recording transfers to Montoro in 2007–2008 and small payments to his spouse.
- The defense asks the judge to deny new banking subpoenas and international rogatory requests, calling a proposed 12‑year sweep of account data disproportionate and attacking the report’s methodology and language.
- The Tarragona inquiry led by Judge Rubén Rus keeps 28 people under investigation as Anti‑Corruption seeks further evidence and outlines potential offenses including bribery, fraud against the administration and influence‑peddling.