The Court of Accounts has agreed to sanction Vox with 862,496.72 euros for “very serious infraction” in the 2018, 1019 and 2020 accounts. The inspection agency considers proven that the extreme right party breached the law of donations during those annuities in which he received and accepted cash and contributions of persons or entities that he has not identified.
The fine has been approved in the last plenary of the Court of Accounts and has come forward with the particular vote of two directors. Those of Santiago Abascal can resort to the Supreme Court through the contentious-administrative.
Specifically, Vox is sanctioned for breaching section A of article 17.2 of the Organic Law on Financing of Political Parties by having received or accepted donations not identified in cash.
The origin of the sanctioning file are the reports of the Court of Accounts on the Annual Vox Accounting in the years 2018, 2019 and 2020, in which more than 330,000 euros that Vox received in ATMs as “promotional activities” was pointed out, without the inspector could elucidate if they really respond to the purchase of ‘merchandising’ products of the party or if they suppose anonymous donations, which are prohibited by law.
It is not the first time that Vox receives a sanction from the Court of Accounts, which already fined him in July of last years with 233,324.22 euros for a file that was opened the previous year by irregular financing detected in the 2019 report for using donations for judicial actions. This fine was appealed in the Supreme.
On the other hand, only one month ago the Court of Accounts denounced the lack of collaboration of the Hungarian MBH Bank on its 6.5 million loan to Vox. The entity financed the training of Abascal in the general elections of 2023.
Vox will resort to the sanction
The party has announced that this sanction of 800,000 euros of the Court of Auditors will resort to the Supreme Court, which considers “unfair and contrary to the law itself, to the resolutions of the TCU and its background.”
From VOX they affirm that “there is no legal basis for the sanction” and stress that the decision is not unanimous, since two of the advisors of the supervisory body have issued particular votes against the sanction.
Source: www.eldiario.es
