“The accused (Bárbara Rey) knowing of the beginning of the investigation work of the AEAT and with the intention of evading said responsibility for payment (sanctions of 51 thousand and 60 thousand euros corresponding to the years 2006 and 2007/8) and of frustrating the legitimate expectations of collection from the AEAT, in connivance and together with the rest of the accused, carried out the acts of asset disposal aimed at generating the bankruptcy of the debts contracted, making their collection impossible.
This is reflected in the proven facts of the ruling, to which this newspaper has had access, from the sixth section of the Provincial Court of Madrid, dated March 7. In it, the actress, in accordance with the prosecutor’s office, accepts a sentence of two years in prison and a fine of six euros a day for twelve months as the perpetrator of a crime of confiscation of property. She was given mitigating compensation for damage for having paid the amount between the months of January and March 2018.
Along with her, her children have been sentenced as necessary collaborators along with her sister and her nephew to one year in prison and a fine of six euros for eight months, in addition to two more people as accomplices to the crime.
The events date back to May 2011 when the Tax Agency began an inspection of Bárbara’s 2006, 2007 and 2008 tax years. The investigation concludes in two minutes from November 2012 that she was notified in February 2013, with sanctions worth more than 100,000 euros. From then on, the ruling indicates that the actress began in June 2011 to make moves to decapitalize. For them she uses her family circle and several instrumental companies, up to four.
The prosecution requested 3 years and six months for Bárbara and two and a half years for the rest of the defendants. This agreement, to which everyone had to agree, leaves the actress without going to jail and with a much more reassuring scenario, since she has been spared a trial in which she could have been sentenced for more than two years, which that would have involved imprisonment.
This Friday we learned of the existence of a letter that Bárbara sends to her son to apologize for the situation in which she has been involved. A letter that Ángel Cristo requested in writing after agreeing with his mother to comply with the agreement and not go to trial. Barbara feared that the family conflicts between the two would be a problem when it came to reaching an agreement and thus prevent the trial.
Ultimately, they all agreed to plead guilty and accept the sentence. Barbara has promised that she will take care of her son’s fine as well as the legal costs.
