The architecture studio of Rocío Monasterio continues to be a regular in court, placing the leader of Vox in Madrid and her partner and national spokesperson for ultranationalists, Iván Espinosa de los Monasterios, at the center of a new controversy. In this case for the "simulation" of a job with the aim of defrauding the public Treasury. The strategy, according to Eldiario.es, consisted of trying to pass off as true an alleged "consulting work for the sale of a luxury building in Madrid that Espinosa de los Monteros dealt with." All this through a "false invoice for a value of 169,400 euros, VAT included".
The defrauding plot, revealed a few weeks after Rocío Monasterio was sentenced for the illegal work that her studio carried out in a loft owned by the actor Arturo Valls, was launched for the sale of a central Madrid building - located at number 3 of General Castaños street- owned by relatives of Iván Espinosa de los Monteros in whose process the marriage mediated.
It was, specifically, the parliamentary spokesman for Vox who allegedly hired his wife's architectural firm "to carry out a study on the possibilities of the building. Despite billing it and including it in his statements and those of his companies, the work of Rocío Monasterio y Asociados (RMA) was a simulation that was never carried out", as verified by the Tax Agency as stated by Eldiario.es.
The conclusions of the fraudulent plot went to the Regional Economic-Administrative Court of Madrid, a body dependent on the Ministry of Finance, who later confirmed them. And with that seal of approval, the resolutions of the Tax Agency became final last July and have already been prosecuted.
The details of the operation reveal that Espinosa de los Monteros used two of his companies, Premium and Citrum, for this. The first declared income from the real estate operation of 90,000 euros in 2016, and 160,000 in 2017. While Citrum declared 375,000 euros of income from the same operation in 2017. In total, 625,000 euros that went into the pockets of the couple of Vox leaders for selling the building of their relatives.
The investigation, however, has determined that the income declared by Rocío Monasterio y Asociados SL -140,000 euros plus 29,400 VAT- come from work for which "no sufficient documentary trace has appeared". That is to say, that Monasterio also billed a company of which it is the 99% owner.
Along with the non-existent job and the false invoice, the inspectors have also stressed that Espinosa de los Monteros attributed the real estate brokerage work to two companies that at that time belonged almost entirely to him when, according to the Treasury's understanding, he should have paid taxes as a natural person. .
This case adds to a voluminous file. Just three months ago, the Provincial Court of Madrid confirmed the conviction of both for converting a premises into a home in the center of Madrid in 2005 through "an illegal work" of which the current spokesperson for Vox in the Madrid Assembly and his firm were "aware of the illegality." Although the complaints concern several more remodeling works of industrial premises for private use.
