• Interview.Ildefonso Falcones: "I have been extorted by the Treasury for four and a half years"

  • Culture: They ask for nine years in prison for Ildefonso Falcones for defrauding the Treasury

About two years ago, the Prosecutor's Office requested nine years in prison for the writer Ildefonso Falcones for allegedly defrauding the Tax Agency 1.4 million euros in the payment of personal income tax for the years 2009, 2010 and 2011 for the benefits obtained with the works The Cathedral of the Sea, La Mano de Fátima and La Reina Descalza.

A few days ago, a Barcelona investigating court opened another legal case, based on a complaint from the Public Prosecutor's Office, against the writer for similar events, although signed in 2013 and 2014.

According to the Economic Crimes Service of the Barcelona Public Prosecutor's Office, in these years Falcones allegedly committed a fraud of 920,000 euros to the Treasury with a financial framework designed to avoid the payment of taxes with the income he had "for the income derived from the exploitation of the copyright over his works ", both" by Spanish and foreign editions. "

The complaint, to which this medium has had access, indicates that the writer "in order to avoid paying due tax obligations" that he had, like his wife, "devised and implemented a system by which he transmitted the rights of author of his literary works to entities not resident in Spain with formal separation from him, but de facto controlled by him ".

The prosecutor believes that Falcones was assisted by his brother, now deceased and already accused in the first judicial investigation, who "formally assumed ownership of the aforementioned entities. In this way, he managed to hide from the Spanish Public Treasury the obtaining of important economic returns, transferring said income to countries with no or reduced taxation ".

Like the other court case, in which the writer and his wife are being processed pending trial, the prosecutor believes that Falcones allegedly committed fraud by selling the copyright of these books to companies based outside of Spain, such as Ireland or Cyprus, which he controlled with his brother.

They consider that in this way he paid less taxes since business with the publisher for rights was always done by the writer himself.

In addition, it details that a company owned by another company of the author bought a house in the upper area of ​​Barcelona in 2011 for 1.9 million euros, which was the marriage's habitual residence.

The complaint points out that based on the information obtained by the publishing house that published the writer's works in Spanish and Catalan and acted as literary agent in relation to foreign language editions, as well as by the entity "transferee of television rights" , the Tax Agency "has been able to determine the net income derived from the exploitation of the literary work" of Falcones in 2013 and 2014 in more than two million euros, reason why it considers that it owes 920,000 euros in payment of taxes.

Now the writer, represented by the lawyer Emilio Zegrí, will have to go through a judicial investigation again.

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