• 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 falsification of a commercial document, a crime against the public treasury and the crime of misappropriation, one of them being responsible of law firms located in Palma and Calviá. The arrest, carried out by agents of the National Police in Palma on October 9, was preceded by an entry and search with a court order requested by the Prosecutor's Office, and by the Tax Agency in the Balearic Islands, which had sent a report with its investigations on a possible appropriation of amounts initially intended by foreign citizens to pay taxes.

Thus, three days before, on October 6, an operation was carried out by police officers assigned to the Economic Crime and Technological Crime Group of the National Police in the Balearic Islands, together with officials from the Tax Agency, during which entries and searches were carried out in the law firms and a significant volume of documentation was intervened, carrying out, on site, in the offices themselves, the dumping and extraction of data from the existing computers there.

The operational actions stem from a complaint filed by the Prosecutor's Office of the Balearic Islands before the Investigative Court of Guardia de Palma, as a result of a report sent to the Prosecutor's Office itself by the Balearic Islands Regional Inspection of the Tax Agency.

According to the report issued by the Tax Agency, the origin of the actions, 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 Income Tax declarations. of non-residents.

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

Alleged undue benefit of two million euros

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

After their arrest and once the pertinent steps had been taken, the two alleged perpetrators were released with charges pending being summoned by the Judicial Authority.