The 182 million allegedly defrauded by Victor de Aldama with the hydrocarbon companies are only the tip of the road. iceberg. In 2023, the budgetary hole in the state coffers will exceed 2 billion eurosto which must be added the fraud of biofuels (avoid the obligation to incorporate them into fuels sold in service stations), which represent another 1,000 million euros more.
Fraud has reached these biblical dimensions because since 2015 and until March 28, regulations have allowed the flourishing of intermediary trade – creator of the VAT regime – between “wholesaler” operators and retail distributors. Which? THE traders.
Sometimes these marketing companies, which could also be the same wholesalers, acted as shell companies or missing tradersby purchasing fuel without paying VAT. They then sold the fuel with VAT to another company, but did not pay the tax collected.
When the Treasury located them, these intermediary companies disappeared or closed their doors without settling their tax obligations. The company that ultimately marketed the fuel could also claim VAT reimbursement, thereby generating losses for the public treasury.
Villafuel SL
The condition to be a wholesaler is to have significant own resources, “which are used for the activity of wholesale distribution of petroleum products and to the amount, at least, of three million euros“, in accordance with article 10 of Royal Decree 2487/1994.
Once the amount is accredited, it must be added to the list of CNMC (National Commission for Markets and Competition), where they appear a little over a hundred of companies today authorized to operate as such, and in the REDEF Hydrocarbons, Register of Tax Statement Extractors.
Under the heading of wholesale operators in the Commercial Register (CNAE 4671), other commercial companies also appear which are supposed to be wholesale operators, but which do not appear on the CNMC list.
This is the case of I have time SLcreated on January 29, 2021 by Vanessa Duran for commerce and construction. Later, on May 5 of the same year, it was sold to María Leonor Gonzalo Pano for another fiscal purpose: the refining, marketing, intermediation, storage and distribution of petroleum and petroleum derivatives.
This company owns the chalet allegedly rented by the former minister abaloswhich paid 292,416.66 euros to the company MTM 180 Capital of Victor de Aldama.
The oil operator is also linked to this plot Villafuel SLproperty of SL still growinganother of the companies created by Vanessa Durán, created on August 6, 2020.
Villafuel was sponsor of Víctor Aldama’s Zamora CF during the 2022-2023 season.
Furthermore, the Aldama Prison Order states that “with regard to Villafuel SL, the investigation revealed that it is a company created to maintain the title of operator, a title that has allowed the criminal organization to operate on the market through the instrumental structure of “. suppliers and thus complete the fraud.
“It must be emphasized that, without this title, the fraud operation investigated, as it was carried out, would not have taken place,” he continues.
For now, Villafuel is still registered with the CNMCbut not in REDEF. “If the law says that an operator on March 28, 2024 must appear in both registers, we do not understand why the Treasury and the CNMC do not match their data. This shows the chaos that exists in the wholesale operator sector. “, industry sources explain to this newspaper.
Sales agents
Finally, for the wholesale marketing of fuels, companies like Salamanca Fuel Center (in liquidation since last August), Cashmar Hydrocarbons, Yata Tarraco or Salamanca Hydrocarbons.
With the sale and purchase of fuel between retail distributors banned since March 28, these companies should no longer be able to carry out their work. However, they looked for an alternative. They were transformed into characters’translucent‘ or legal known as “commercial agents of wholesale operators“, as sources in the gas station sector explain to EL ESPAÑOL-Invertia.
“Everyone had to transform from Royal Decree-Law 8/2023 at the end of December, when sales between retail distributors in the hydrocarbon sector“conclude the same sources.
