The Las Palmas Prosecutor’s Office has accused the businessman Ángel Ramón Tejera de León, Mon. He asks for three years in prison and almost half a million fine. The businessman appears in the investigation of the Mediator case holding a meeting with Francisco Espinosa Navas, the general of the Civil Guard in provisional prison.
Mon is not accused in the Mediator case, but he is in another internal investigation by the Civil Guard into rigging in the awards of conservation works in the barracks. The investigation of irregularities in the Ávila Command led to the detection of other suspicious actions and to the investigation of Mon’s contracts with the Civil Guard in another dozen provinces.
The cause for which he will be tried on April 12 in Arrecife (Lanzarote) focuses on the accounts of Angrasurcor SL, one of the two companies with which he contracted waterproofing and painting work. The Prosecutor’s Office accuses him of tax fraud and requests for him a sentence of three years in prison and a fine of 488,000 euros, triple what he would have defrauded.
The indictment maintains that the businessman omitted to declare the company’s income and, above all, included as deductibles “expenses that in no way can have such consideration, sometimes because they respond to consumption of a personal nature and the defendant’s own, for which reason are not related to the economic activity carried out by the entity, or because such expenses do not respond to any service and have not been justified”.
His declaration for the 2016 Corporation Tax was 68,000 euros. According to the Prosecutor’s Office, he was missing another 162,000 euros. The bulk of the fraud responds to the fact that he presented almost 400,000 that did not correspond as deductible expenses. He presented them as a purchase of merchandise, but when the Treasury asked him to provide supporting documentation for these acquisitions, the businessman did not do so. “Thus, since the reality of such expenses has not been proven, they cannot be considered as deductibles,” says the Prosecutor’s Office.
The same occurs with respect to the amount included in the account of work carried out by other companies, of which justification has only been provided for a very small part that amounts to 6,312.93 euros, the rest that adds up to the amount of 235,028.86 euros have not been justified. But not only the existence of the expenses has not been justified, nor the payment of the same since the provisions made respond to personal expenses and not to the needs of the economic activity that the company develops.
A smaller figure, 3,800 euros, cannot be deducted as meals, stays and travel, “for responding to payments for stays of the defendant and administrator of the entity in luxury hotels not related to the economic activity of the entity.”
In addition to imprisonment and a fine, the sentence requested by the Prosecutor’s Office includes a four-year ban on receiving public aid, as well as the payment of Corporation Tax that was not paid.
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