• The operation was carried out thanks to a report sent to the Prosecutor's Office by the Regional Inspection of the Tax Agency in the Balearic Islands

October 23, 2023 .- Two lawyers have been arrested as alleged perpetrators of the crimes of forgery of commercial documents, crime against the public treasury and crime of misappropriation, one of them being responsible for law firms located in Palma and Calviá. The arrest, carried out by National Police officers in Palma on 9 October, was preceded by a search and seizure with a court order requested by the Public Prosecutor's Office and by the Tax Agency in the Balearic Islands, which had sent the Public Prosecutor's Office in Palma a report containing its investigations into a possible appropriation of amounts initially intended by foreign citizens to pay taxes.

Thus, three days earlier, on October 6, an operation was carried out by police officers attached to the Economic Crime and Technological Crimes Group of the National Police in the Balearic Islands, together with officials from the Tax Agency, during which raids and searches were carried out in the law firms and a significant volume of documentation was seized, with data being dumped and extracted from the computers there on site in the offices themselves.

The operational actions are based on a complaint filed by the Public Prosecutor's Office of the Balearic Islands before the Palma Court of First Instance, as a result of a report sent to the Public Prosecutor's Office by the Balearic Regional Inspection of the Tax Agency.

According to the report issued by the Tax Agency, which is the origin of the proceedings, these people would have received money from several non-resident foreign clients, an amount that was originally intended to pay the Tax Agency the fee derived from the corresponding declarations of the Income Tax of Non-Residents.

However, the money deposited by clients in the offices was never used for the purpose for which it was delivered.

Alleged undue profit of two million euros

Through the described operation, and according to the written complaint of the Public Prosecutor's Office, it is estimated that the two detainees could have benefited unduly from an amount of approximately two million euros.

Following their arrest and the relevant procedures, the two alleged perpetrators were released on bail pending summons by the judicial authority.