The famous Spanish actress Ana Duatolegendary protagonist of the series Tell me how it happenedbought a house in Ibizaspecifically in the Ses Salines Natural Park from the municipality of Sant Josep de sa Talaia. It’s a house that was for sale for 1.2 million euros and from which Duato was already profiting for over 20 years as a tenant during her traditional stays on the island of Pitiusa with her husband Miguel Ángel Bernardeau.
As highlighted The voice of Ibizathe house recognized a total of 167 square meters built on a plot of land of 742. After the real estate transaction formalized on June 7 with the notary of Juan Acero Simón, 100% of the property has now passed into the name of Shuagathan 2018 SLa company created in July 2008.
In fact, it is the family production company of Miguel Ángel Bernardeau, whose shares were distributed between 40% of Ana Duato, another 40% of Bernardeau and the remaining 20% of the son Miguel Bernardeau, known for his interpretation in the series Elite and for being the singer’s ex-partner Aitana Ocaña.
Duato, under the spotlight for possible millionaire fraud against the Treasury
However, the company fell into disgrace due to the crisis of the Nummaria case, in which the prosecutor Fernando Peña, who heads this law firm, hidden economic operations from its customers at the National Tax Administration Agency (AEAT). Among the accused are the actor Imanol Arias and Ana Duato herself.
And Nummaria recommended that some of his clients pay their taxes through an organization called a European Economic Interest Group, which operated like a life annuity. However, the Treasury believes that the actors should have declared their income not as a life annuity, but as income from work, that is to say through personal income tax.
Indeed, the Central Court of Instruction number 2 of Madrid, Ismael Moreno, indicates that the Nummaria Office created a structure of companies whose aim was to “avoid tax income generated by their professional activity and keep hidden the assets accumulated from the profits it has generated.
On the one hand, in the case of Ana Duato and her husband, the prosecution considers that both They hid part of their income“mainly originating from her participation as actress and producer, respectively, in the television series Tell me how it happened“. As for Imanol Arias, a fraud structure transform professional activity income for one’s work in the seventh art into annuity.
This is why the Treasury accuses Duato of defraud the Treasury for a total of 1.7 million euros. Initially, the anti-corruption prosecutor’s office asked the actress 32 years in prison for a crime of tax evasion, but it was reduced to 22 years when the accusation for two tax crimes in 2016 and 2017 was withdrawn after verifying that in those years he had less income from the series Cuéntame comment happened.
A total of 28 years in prison was also requested for Imanol Arias and up to 18 years for Miguel Ángel Bernardeau, although Arias admitted his guilt and reached an agreement with a sentence of two years and two months in prison . Additionally, the actor will also have to pay a fine.
Despite everything, Ana Duato is confident in her innocence. “This is why I have never considered any pact involving the recognition of acts that I did not commit,” he said. Vanitatis. “Compliance would occur because I lie and take responsibility for acts I did not commit. And I don’t intend to leave my children the legacy of a lie.“.
