The Carrillo brothers, natives and residents of El Arahal, in the heart of the Sevillian countryside, agreed to put several companies with practically no activity or employees in their name, so that Alberto González, current partner of the president of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, could create a “business network” with a single objective, to deceive the treasury.
These are the conclusions of the Tax Agency collected in a report to which La Vanguardia has had access and which has been fundamental for the Prosecutor’s Office’s complaint for tax crimes and document falsification.
The Carrillos signed several contracts with Maxwell, González’s company, for environmental technical support of works as well as real estate management for companies in the Quirón health group. Their job was to highlight health certificates that, as the inspector states, must be carried out by qualified technicians. Neither the Carrillo brothers, nor David Herrera, linked to them and who seems to actually run the companies of the previous ones, have such specific qualifications.
The inspector unraveled who the people behind these companies really were and why González hired them. Of the Carillo brothers, one declared that he was a vehicle and bicycle mechanic, and the other a transport driver. In addition, both had worked for companies in the meat sector. Nothing to do with health certifications or training linked to it.
Furthermore, their companies, Baluarte, Bianconera or Manantial, have common features. None of them have real activity, they have no workers or expenses linked to the company. The little money there is is used for common expenses such as the supermarket, purchases on Aliexpress, Amazon, clothing, restaurants, parking, etc. “All this makes it impossible for them to have been able to do these jobs,” explains the Treasury document.
Another suspicion that warned that they were really a cover is that immediately upon receipt of the invoice from González’s company, that money was withdrawn entirely in cash. “Acts that, according to the experience of the AEAT, are usually common in companies that issue false or falsified invoices where cash funds are withdrawn and can be returned in whole or in part to the payer,” the report maintains. The usual procedure of this type of scheme is that for receiving the money and returning it – in this case it would be to González himself – they receive a commission.
The inspector noticed another detail. The contract signed between Maxwell and one of the Carillo companies shows the address of the company of Arahal’s other neighbor, David Herrera. This “error” is attributed by the AEAT official to the fact that they were carrying out standard contracts.
Herrera’s company, Púrpura Star, had 16 registered workers the year inspected. However, it turns out that some of them appear with payrolls of 100 euros per year but in addition to the company accounts, not a single payment came out. The money that had been allocated to common expenses and to pay Herrera himself and the payroll of “loli”, who apparently is his wife.
Given all these suspicions, the inspector went to the homes of the companies in Arahal to discover what was there. Two of them had the same address. The door was opened by the Carrillos’ father, who said he did not know the whereabouts of his children. Of course, it was his private home.
At another address, a woman opened the door who said she did not know who the Carrillos were or what companies they were talking about. The address of Herrera’s company had the impression of being his private address but it could not be verified because no one opened the door and Herrera did not answer the phone.
“We are faced with a business network and some partners and administrators who have been sought and used by Maxwell to proceed to issue, in their favor, false invoices – worth 170,000 euros – relating to services whose reality has not been accredited with the intention to reduce taxation,” the document states.
For the inspection, the health certificates made to Quirón were real but made by external auditors hired directly by González. He used these companies to inflate the company’s expenses and thus reduce to the maximum the taxes that he had to pay.
In total there were thirteen invoices inspected. When González discovered that he was being analyzed by the Treasury, he annulled several of them, justifying that it had been an error due to work that was ultimately not carried out, an explanation that did not stop the treasury from proceeding criminally against him.
The inspector’s next step after checking the background of the contracted companies, she asked González about such agreements. The answers were, according to the official, “complicated” and “mere statements without possible contrast for inspection.” Among other things, she mentions workers who are not hired or providing services in the commercial companies that provide the services.
Regarding one of the contracts with the Carrillo brothers, Díaz Ayuso’s partner responds literally: “There is no real estate intermediation or work regarding these invoices that you are asking me about.”
Therefore, the inspector concludes that “in a veiled and involuntary way, she recognizes that the works that these invoices cover have not existed.” All of these jobs were supposedly for Quirón Prevention and companies linked to it. The inspector came to ask for explanations, but as feared, a “client who knows will confirm everything she tells us as has been usual throughout the entire inspection.”
What the inspector wanted to know is whether the company related to the hospital group knew of the existence that these companies were the ones who were supposedly making the health certificates for which Alberto González had been hired.
The conclusion of the inspection is that González and his large group of external auditors were the ones who made such certificates, and whom he paid as self-employed workers. However, he used the Arahalenses to make the treasury believe that these jobs cost him more than what he actually paid to his auditors and thus reduce the Corporation Tax as much as possible.
