Valladolid businessman Alberto Esgueva, who was a partner in Grupo San Cayetano and CEO of Excal Internacional, in turn one of the most likely beneficiaries of the so-called “wind plot”, appeared in court yesterday as a victim or big loser after … defend the legality of the various sales of participations in the wind energy sector, for which he claims to have paid the corresponding taxes. He assured that no one from the Junta de Castilla y León had recommended him or his brother to enter the wind farm sector.
However, The National Tax Agency ordered the seizure of his property it being understood that these are economic operations for which the corresponding VAT also had to be paid. “They sold my house at auction, they seized my possessions, “They auctioned off all the shares of my company, every euro entered in the account was executed, we had to lay off all the staff… and when this case was published, my business project in Spain and Poland ended!” lamented the industrialist – who is sentenced to 12 years in prison and a fine of 68 million euros – shortly before concluding the interrogation to which he submitted exclusively to questions from his own lawyer.
In this way, the defendant was referring, fundamentally, to the final result of the company undertaken in the wind sector, first through the incorporation in December 2004 of an automobile company called Energía Global Castellana SA. -involved by San Cayetano and Biovent, a subsidiary of Iberdrola- then via an agreement in June 2006 between another of its companies. In both cases, with the aim of promoting, developing and operating wind farms in Castile and León, reports Ep.
In the case of Francisco Esgueva, the industrialist claimed that almost all of the wind activity was managed by his brother Alberto. In the case of Germán Martín Giraldo, partner of the second of the two brothers of Cronos Global, he corroborated the words of his “associate” according to which the embargo imposed by the AEAT meant the death of the company.
The so-called “wind plot”, with alleged bribes of more than 80 million euros, thirteen people are put on the bench for alleged fraud in the processing of wind farm licenses.
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