The eight companies identified by judge José Luis Calama for serving to channel payments to former Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero barely function as shells without activity or employees, through which money flows in and out via scarce accounting entries, as seen in their accounts filed with the Mercantile Registry.
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They all total barely one employee, that of Inteligencia Prospectiva SL, and in the last year each filed their accounts, the joint losses were 463,365 euros. The pattern is similar in almost all: with little equity, they report income that together amounts to 270,344 euros, while the item “other operating expenses” records amounts that end up causing the red numbers. The last fiscal year is not coincident because some have been filing accounts until 2024 and others have not done so since before.
Análisis Relevante, the company of Julio Martínez Martínez, domiciled on Diego de León street in Madrid, appears at the center of the scheme for paying 490,780 euros between 2020 and 2025 to Zapatero for consulting work and another 239,755 euros to the company of his daughters Whathefav.
However, it has no employees and in its last fiscal year reported to the Mercantile Registry, 2023, it lost 39,551 euros after earning 125,875 euros. It is, says the judge in the order, “an instrumental piece within a financial structure designed to channel funds from various companies.”
Another company well identified in the investigation is Inteligencia Prospectiva SL, with registered office on Paseo de La Habana in Madrid and created in 2020. It is a consultancy with two joint administrators, the Venezuelan brothers and businessmen Guillermo Alfredo and Domingo Arnaldo Amaro Chacón.
It is the only one of all that has an employee. In its latest accounts it also shows little activity and results consisting of income of 34,936 euros and losses of 316,867 euros. In the scheme, says the judge, it is a point of entry for simulated foreign funds with capital increases, which are then distributed to other companies, including Whathefav, through fictitious contracts.
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Another company is Softgestor, which was registered on Tuesday along with that of Zapatero’s daughters and Inteligencia Prospectiva. Located on Marde Kara street in Madrid, its last year for which it has filed accounts was 2019, in which it lost 87,499 euros after earning 59,462 euros.
It has as sole administrator the lawyer Carlos Alberto Parra Delgado, attorney for Venezuelan businessmen in Spain, and it says it is dedicated to administrative services. The judge considers it functions as a vehicle for channeling funds, “justifying payments through interchangeable international advisory contracts lacking real content.”
Operations “lacking economic cause”
Caletón Consultores also appears, controlled by Santiago Fernández Lena, which according to the judge is an instrumental company used to channel funds from Plus Ultra to Julio Martínez’s environment. This company appears in the mercantile registry but has never submitted an accounting report.
There is also Iot Domotic Europe, which receives funds and formalizes operations “lacking economic cause, blurring the origin of funds coming from Plus Ultra,” says the judge. It is the only one that reports a profit in its accounts, of 11,950 euros, after earning 22,799 euros.
Voli Analítica serves to receive and redistribute funds, all according to the order. It loses just over 31,000 euros after earning 27,272 euros. Idella Consulenza Strategica, represented by Julio Martínez, served to hide payments agreed with Plus Ultra to bank accounts abroad, with losses of 393 euros and no information on income. There is one last one, called Afitta, which provides documentary support.
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