He Villarreal announced this Wednesday that it will appeal the sentence of the Criminal Court number 1 of Castellón in which it condemned the two CEOs of the club and its president, Fernando Roig, almost a year in prison for two crimes of document forgery and ensured that the entity “continues to be convinced of innocent of his counsellors”.
the club”will use all legal means that the law allows them to defend their innocence before the higher authorities,” reads the text of the statement, which is why Villarreal will appeal to the Provincial Court of Castellón for the crimes of forgery in a commercial document against the Public Treasury on the reform works of the club’s sports city and the Estadio de la Cerámica in 2004 and 2005, then called El Madrigal.
The sentence proves a tax fraud for the whole of 525,440 euros -187,840 euros for the 2004 fiscal year and 336,600 for 2005- for the input VAT amount that was improperly deducted after overcharging of 1,174,00 euros in 2004 and 2,110,000 euros in 2005 which did not correspond to those prices for in the overs. avoid paying the corresponding VAT.
The condemned is the president, Fernando Roigand two CEOs of Villarreal for two crimes, as well as a commercial administrator of the company Structures, Housing and Highways SL as a necessary cooperator in two crimes, although in his case the penalty was six months in prison and a fine.
In addition, two were also sentenced commercial administrators of the company Spain GES-PRO SL As required cooperators of two competing tax crimes of two ongoing crimes of falsification of a commercial document and five required collaborators of a continuing crime of falsification of a commercial document for issuing false invoices, all of them had sentences between two and three months in prison.
The sentence, that four other defendants were acquitted, It affected that Villarreal, with the approval of its president and the signature of two of its CEOs, paid the company Structures, Housing and Highways (EVC) promissory notes to avoid paying the corresponding VAT, in assume and know the billing is fictitious from the construction company.
As can be seen from the proven facts of the sentence, it has been “proved the EVC charging exceeded the services actually provided to Villarreal”, as the club accepted “exorbitant prices” for certain works with the aim of avoiding the payment of VAT.
Source: La Verdad
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