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06-06-2025, 08:51 AM
The trial against two businessmen for whom the Prosecutor's Office is asking for 20 years for a millionaire fraud in Fuerteventura is set for June 11
The brothers Andrés and Carlos Bardeau de la Vega diverted the turnover of their tourist activity through other companies to avoid millionaire debts with the Tax Agency.
Diario de Fuerteventura 0 COMMENTS 06/06/2025 - 07:14
The Second Section of the Provincial Court of Las Palmas has set for June 11 the trial against businessmen Andrés and Carlos Bardeau de la Vega, for whom the Prosecutor's Office requests a sentence of 20 years in prison for creating a business network to avoid paying almost eight million to the Tax Agency. The trial was scheduled for early December last year but was suspended.
Both businessmen were behind the companies Oasis Duna de Corralejo, Inversiones Turísticas El Cotillo, Oasis Papagayo and Oasis Village, with accommodation establishments and properties in the town of Corralejo.
The aforementioned companies accumulated millionaire debts with the Tax Agency, as a result of not paying the withholdings for the work of the companies' personnel. The first owed more than 2.9 million, the second more than 1.7 million, the third 1.4 million and the last another 1.7 million euros.
To avoid paying the debts, in 2009 they set up another company, called Explotaciones Reunidas de Corralejo, and "verbally" ceded the exploitation of the tourist activity of the companies sanctioned by the Treasury, despite lacking "human or material resources".
The companies accumulated eight million euros in debt with the Tax Agency for not paying the withholdings for the work of the staff
The objective was to prevent the Tax Agency from seizing them, because of all the turnover generated through this instrumental company, only around 30 percent of the total income returned to the companies, just enough to pay suppliers.
The "bulk of the turnover", highlights the Prosecutor's Office, was derived to other related companies, such as Blokimax and Amanecer de Corralejo, controlled by the Bardeau de la Vega brothers.
However, the Tax Agency became aware of the operation and filed a case against the instrumental company, Explotaciones Reunidas de Corralejo. What did they do then? The Prosecutor's Office highlights that a direct relative of the defendants created another company in Austria, called Fue Sonnen Reisen GMBH, to which they diverted "all the turnover" of the tourist activity in Fuerteventura.
Four crimes of hoarding of assets
In February 2017, this second agreement was terminated due to the tax inspection, in a joint operation by Spanish and Austrian officials. At that time, the defendants "decided to divert, directly, the turnover of the merited tourist activity between different linked companies" to those that had millionaire debts with the Treasury, but which were clean, "without a criminal record".
The Prosecutor's Office highlights that they diverted to a company in Austria "all the turnover" of tourist activity in Fuerteventura
The prosecution's accusation concludes that there have been four crimes of asset theft, one for each company debtor to the Treasury. For both businessmen, he asks that each one be sentenced to five years in prison for each crime, which raises the request for a prison sentence to 20 years.
In addition to the fines - 198,000 euros for each businessman and 432,000 euros for each company - and compensation to the Tax Agency, the Public Prosecutor's Office requests the legal dissolution of the companies.
The brothers Andrés and Carlos Bardeau de la Vega diverted the turnover of their tourist activity through other companies to avoid millionaire debts with the Tax Agency.
Diario de Fuerteventura 0 COMMENTS 06/06/2025 - 07:14
The Second Section of the Provincial Court of Las Palmas has set for June 11 the trial against businessmen Andrés and Carlos Bardeau de la Vega, for whom the Prosecutor's Office requests a sentence of 20 years in prison for creating a business network to avoid paying almost eight million to the Tax Agency. The trial was scheduled for early December last year but was suspended.
Both businessmen were behind the companies Oasis Duna de Corralejo, Inversiones Turísticas El Cotillo, Oasis Papagayo and Oasis Village, with accommodation establishments and properties in the town of Corralejo.
The aforementioned companies accumulated millionaire debts with the Tax Agency, as a result of not paying the withholdings for the work of the companies' personnel. The first owed more than 2.9 million, the second more than 1.7 million, the third 1.4 million and the last another 1.7 million euros.
To avoid paying the debts, in 2009 they set up another company, called Explotaciones Reunidas de Corralejo, and "verbally" ceded the exploitation of the tourist activity of the companies sanctioned by the Treasury, despite lacking "human or material resources".
The companies accumulated eight million euros in debt with the Tax Agency for not paying the withholdings for the work of the staff
The objective was to prevent the Tax Agency from seizing them, because of all the turnover generated through this instrumental company, only around 30 percent of the total income returned to the companies, just enough to pay suppliers.
The "bulk of the turnover", highlights the Prosecutor's Office, was derived to other related companies, such as Blokimax and Amanecer de Corralejo, controlled by the Bardeau de la Vega brothers.
However, the Tax Agency became aware of the operation and filed a case against the instrumental company, Explotaciones Reunidas de Corralejo. What did they do then? The Prosecutor's Office highlights that a direct relative of the defendants created another company in Austria, called Fue Sonnen Reisen GMBH, to which they diverted "all the turnover" of the tourist activity in Fuerteventura.
Four crimes of hoarding of assets
In February 2017, this second agreement was terminated due to the tax inspection, in a joint operation by Spanish and Austrian officials. At that time, the defendants "decided to divert, directly, the turnover of the merited tourist activity between different linked companies" to those that had millionaire debts with the Treasury, but which were clean, "without a criminal record".
The Prosecutor's Office highlights that they diverted to a company in Austria "all the turnover" of tourist activity in Fuerteventura
The prosecution's accusation concludes that there have been four crimes of asset theft, one for each company debtor to the Treasury. For both businessmen, he asks that each one be sentenced to five years in prison for each crime, which raises the request for a prison sentence to 20 years.
In addition to the fines - 198,000 euros for each businessman and 432,000 euros for each company - and compensation to the Tax Agency, the Public Prosecutor's Office requests the legal dissolution of the companies.
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