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Allen Weisselberg

, the chief financial officer of the Trump Organization, surrendered to New York authorities on Thursday after being charged with alleged tax crimes. Weisselberg, who has worked for the company of former US President Donald Trump for decades and is a

key figure in the company,

went first thing in the morning accompanied by his lawyer to the Manhattan building that houses the criminal courts and the prosecutor's office of the district, according to various local media.

The director of the Trump Organization is expected to appear this afternoon before a judge along with representatives of the consortium, who have also been indicted in the same case.

Weisselberg plans to plead "

not guilty

and fight these charges in court," his attorneys, Mary E. Mulligan and Bryan C. Skarlatos, said in a statement.

For now

, the exact charges are unknown

, as the accusation approved Wednesday by a grand jury, according to various media, is still under secret and prosecutors have not released any details.

According to The Wall Street Journal, the accusations will be linked to

tax evasion

, after the Prosecutor's Office has studied for months whether Weisselberg and other company employees illegally avoided paying taxes on some compensation they received such as vehicles, apartments or license plates. in private schools.

If prosecutors can show that the company and its executives systematically dodged paying taxes, they could file more serious charges, the newspaper added.

The Trump Organization, in a statement transferred to various media, assured that Weisselberg is being used by prosecutors as a "pawn" in an attempt "to harm the former president."

Tax fraud, insurance and other criminal offenses

"The district attorney is filing a criminal charge on employee compensation that neither the IRS (the US tax authority) nor other prosecutors would ever think of filing. This is not justice, this is politics," the company said. The charges will be the first corresponding to the investigations that the Manhattan district attorney, Cyrus Vance, has maintained for about three years on the businesses of the former US president.

Investigations into the former president's companies have

accelerated in recent months

, with several executives being called to testify before a grand jury in preparation for possible indictments. The investigations have covered possible tax fraud, insurance and other criminal offenses, allegedly committed before Trump's arrival in the White House.

These could include inflated appraisals, unjustified allowances, and duplicate accounting to ultimately not

pay or pay very little taxes for years,

as has emerged. Vance scored a major triumph last February, when he gained access to years of Trump's tax returns after a lengthy legal battle in which the Supreme Court ended up rejecting the former president's arguments to keep those documents confidential.

The Prosecutor's Office has also been investigating the secret payments of money that the Trump electoral campaign made to the porn actress Stormy Daniels to prevent her from making public an alleged sexual relationship with the then presidential candidate, since they could violate the legislation of the New York State.

The former Republican president has at all times denied any wrongdoing and has repeatedly denounced that the investigations are the result of

political persecution

by Democratic prosecutors.

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