The Civil Guard requests Judge Santiago Pedraz to immediately block dozens of accounts in Portugal linked to Villafuel, the hydrocarbon company of a partner of Víctor de Aldama, for a fraud of at least €78.3 million.
The Central Operational Unit (UCO) of the Civil Guard has asked the National Court Judge Santiago Pedraz to order the immediate blocking of dozens of bank accounts in Portugal held by Villafuel, the hydrocarbon trading company owned by Claudio Rivas, partner of the broker Víctor de Aldama, according to the letter sent to the judge on September 9, which has been accessed by El Periódico Mediterráneo.
The investigation into the VAT fraud of the operator and the suppliers created to commit the fraud has allowed the identification of funds transferred from Spanish bank accounts to accounts of Portuguese companies, raising the initially quantified amount to €78,318,349.
In July of last year, the Portuguese authorities responded to the two European investigation orders issued by the judge and provided banking documentation from the investigated companies. The analysis of that data has so far located the entry of €56,525,664 from the operator and the implicated suppliers.
The Civil Guard warns in its document that there is a "lack of sufficient information, in the concept of certain bank movements," which prevents identifying the origin or destination of the funds and studying their traceability.
The study of the banking products of the operator and the suppliers formed for the commission of the fraud allowed the identification of funds transferred from the Spanish bank accounts of the operator and the suppliers to the bank accounts of Portuguese companies, increasing the initially quantified amount to €78,318,349
Sources close to Villafuel claim that the company will provide investigators with all the necessary information to clarify the traceability of the money in its accounts in Portugal.
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