The Anti -Corruption Prosecutor investigates if Vox has used its street stalls to disguise some type of illegal financing. The investigation proceedings open by the specialized body leave for a complaint filed by the PSOE in which photographs of the party’s booths are provided in which “huchas” or “flow boxes” appear, a type of anonymous income that is prohibited by the financing law of political parties. The PSOE puts the focus on a total of 4.6 million euros in revenues of the extreme right party for this and other media.
eldiario.es reported exclusively that in May 2019 the Vox Treasury Department sent an email with precise instructions to its accounting departments and the word “urgent” in the matter. The order was: “urgently regularize all the money you have for merchandising. (…). Income must be made as collected, amounts below 299 euros, indicating the collection date. ” The message gave two options to enter it: in the provincial account of the party or in a specific account.
The complaint of the PSOE, to which this medium has had access, states that the huchas are not “exchange boxes”, that is, they are not places where the money of the sale of merchandising is entered. This is proven by the photos that include where the huchas appear but there are no material table for sale or, if there is, “there is no sale arrangement, which requires price indication and the justification of a commercial transaction.”
The brief of the Socialists takes into consideration the report of the Court of Accounts about that there is also no accounting of the products sold and the benefit obtained: “Neither Ticket, nor prices, nor invoice … nor anything.” “That obtaining donations through hucas or flow boxes, in addition to being held outside all legal forecasts provided for in the Law on Financing of Political Parties, can lead to economic flow bags that came from constituting illegal financing with a criminal character, so they must be subject to investigation,” he adds.
The complaint that already investigates anti -corruption denounces a second operation that can incur illegal financing: “the possible simulation of merchandising sales to avoid donation controls.” The ‘modus operandi’ would consist of reflecting accounting income derived from alleged promotional sales that are not justified “with minimal accounting.”
In this regard, the PSOE appears again to the Court of Accounts that has already warned that “nothing is justified” by Vox. “It is simply said that a part of their income is for this type of sales, being that this income could be considered as undercover donations, which also follow practically the same operation used for donations, by entering the income of small quantities without indenting who makes the entry, some of them per cashier.”
The internal order on the regularization of the income that Eldiario.es advanced in October 2023 could respond to the obligation included in article 6 of the Law on Financing, according to which, “the benefits derived from promotional activities (…) will specify the identification of the transmitting transmitting when the patrimonial transmission to the political party is equal to or greater than 300 euros.”
With an income of less than 300 euros, this traceability must not be submitted. If the income is greater than 299, yes. With this internal instruction, the party could avoid giving concrete data of its income. The funny thing is that this article is designed for a person who bought Merchandising for more than 300 euros, not for the sum of a collection, according to the experts consulted by this means. Even so, the VOX treasury gave that order of the limit of 300 euros.
The PSOE warns that there are 4,650,234.47 euros of suspicious origin in Vox. This figure comes out of the sum entrus the 2,828,657 euros of non -justified donations but others that have tried to prove as promotional sales revenues of 1,821,577.06 euros.
The complaint of the Socialists warns that Vox may have violated the financing law at various points. For example, upon receiving anonymous donations with their huchas OA through an “artificial” sale, also for “finalist or revocable” donations – as the Court of Accounts denounces -, unable to identify the donor and that this could have contributed more than 50,000 euros and, finally, because when the donors were not identified, legal persons could be treated and also of entities without legal personality.
“We understand that there are more than enough indications to understand that in an organized, premeditated way – through even instructions – and constantly over time, the Vox political formation has been financed with funds that could be constitutive of crime provided for in article 304. BIS of the Criminal Code,” adds the complaint that investigates anti -corruption.
The ‘Hungarian’ to Vox loan
The complaint is also echoing the confessive debt of Vox, more than 9 million euros, which however would not have had the contribution of complete information to the Court of Accounts, as is the case of the name of all the credit entities involved.
According to published information, one of those entities would be linked to Hungarian Prime Minister, Viktor Orban. “Financing by a foreign bank participated by the Hungarian government would contravene the provisions of the party financing law,” adds the complaint.
The letter goes further and suspects the Vox exit of the group led by Georgia Meloni in the European Parliament to integrate Orban’s in the sense that there may be “irregular financing flows between the European parties qualified as ultra -right that are included in the European Parliament group as ‘patriots for Europe’, around the Hungarian political party of President Orban”.
In addition to the crime of irregular financing, the socialists collect another possible accounting forgery, “it would be necessary to hide the reality of these income when they are declared, giving them an appearance of legality.”
The Prosecutor’s Office develops secret proceedings that will end in the presentation of a complaint before the court, if it finds sufficient indications, or a file decree. Within these investigation proceedings, the PSOE proposes that they declare Santiago Abascal, president of the party; its manager, Javier Gortés; the predecessor in that position until 2023, Juan José Aizcorbe; as well as Vox’s treasurer, Pablo Sáez.
Source: www.eldiario.es
