The video of the defense of Cristiano: the former law firm of Montoro lashes out against the Treasury

The office founded by the Minister of Economy and Finance Cristóbal Montoro has defended Cristiano Ronaldo before the judge of Pozuelo de Alarcón, who keeps him charged for four fiscal offenses. The prosecutor Manuel de Vicente-Tutor, fiscal and partner of Equipo Económico, appeared as a witness on January 26 and refuted harshly the arguments used by the Tax Agency to attribute to the Real Madrid striker a tax fraud of 14.7 million euros In his appearance, to which EL MUNDO has had access, De Vicente-Tutor accused the Treasury of doing "interpretive engineering" to accuse Ronaldo to the point of ensuring that the treasury "has debuted" in the case of the soccer player "with a new interpretation. " Likewise, he resorted to the manuals of international taxation of the person in charge of this unit in the Tax Agency to defend that in the Ronaldo case the interpretation contrary to that maintained by Néstor Carmona in his books is being used. According to the expert hired by the Portuguese striker, Ronaldo's tax debate does not constitute criminal matters but a mere administrative discrepancy and argues that the player never intended to defraud taxes. Not even the deviation of the image rights of the player to a company based in the British Virgin Islands constitutes, in his opinion, a proof of opacity, as the Treasury maintains. "It is a cooperative territory at the same level as the United States and companies such as Telefónica use companies in the British Virgin Islands," he said. De Vicente-Tutor also insisted on continuously referring to Ronaldo as "Mr. Dos Santos to see if he is treated like the others" and alluded to that the Treasury in his case has starred in a "jump in the vacuum" from the point of view of the application of tax regulations. Finally, he stressed that in this case "there is no report from the Legal Service of the Tax Agency" despite the fact that "this report can not be dispensed with". Failing that, he stressed, there is simply an office for remitting the complaint, which was not developed and explained by the finance lawyers as they usually do in other cases.