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Tax Agency Maps Fragmented Money Flows, Seeks Overseas Data in Probe of Montoro-Linked Firm

Investigators describe payments linked to gas‑sector tax changes being split into small sums labeled as “success fees” to obscure their origin.

Overview

  • - A January 23 AEAT report delivered to Anticorruption and the Tarragona court details mixed, partly untraceable funds moving through multiple accounts, cheques, security boxes and financial products.
  • - Judge Rubén Rus has extended the investigation to obtain notarized deeds, inventories and further banking records as the inquiry remains in the evidence‑gathering phase.
  • - AEAT quantifies more than €35.5 million in income for Equipo Económico between 2008 and 2013, and tallies €991,613 from gas companies in 2011–2020 that it says followed a split‑payment pattern.
  • - Inspectors identified seven transfers to Cristóbal Montoro totaling €137,358 (2007–2008) and two to his wife totaling €9,451, while noting missing account data for Montoro and others that prevents full tracing.
  • - The report flags hundreds of generically labeled bank movements, including 260 outflows over €4 million and 270 inflows over €4.44 million at Banco Gallego, and requests cooperation from Germany, Luxembourg and the U.S. to trace funds.