Transport says that ábanos did not receive 500,000 euros in diets, but travel expenses were throughout the delegation

The Ministry of Transport confirmed that the former minister Jose Luis Apalos 500,000 euros did not receive “exempt and tax exemption”, as stated by the central operational unit (UCO) From the Civil Guard, however They were the travel expenses he made The entire delegation during the responsibility of the administration.

This is pronounced in a statement issued on Wednesday, following the condition of the ministry received in the Supreme Court that is investigating Irregular employment for masks and health materials During Pandemia. The answer comes after ábanos himself He denied that he got half a million euros in Everything is a lie: “It is permanently bullying.”

Coach Leopoldo Pointi requested transportation to contribute to 15 days period The concept, date and account that the payments were sent to ábanos By the ministry that was directed – the interview for the years 2018 and 2019 – in the amount of 156,440.29 and 351,992.72 euros, respectively, according to the category of “exempt income and tax -exempt diets”.

Now, the ministry’s details are that “since the ministers’ flights are managed by the compensation system that was placed in Article 8 of the Royal Decree 462/2002, on May 24, regarding compensation due to service, all expenses resulting from all components of the delegation accompanying the minister are on a trip to him.” Therefore, these expenses are linked to the name of the minister, but in reality, It reflects the total cost of the trips that took place in those years“, He says.

Denies transfers from paid criticism to ábanos

In this sense, the section that is now the details of Oscar Benteti details that these amounts were often paid to the travel agency that works with the ministry. “There is another part of the expenses that are paid in cash as progress and justification later with each Interviewed bills To the actually made payments. “

It affects that “during the years mentioned above, no transfer was carried out to any bank account of the minister from the paid central treasurer.” “In fact, at the wage money, the wage is the bells from the ministry There is no data from any bank account for ábanosHe adds.

In this context, it indicates that during the 2018 and 2019 years, the employees connected to the IRPF regulations, and the understanding that the statements of travel expenses in high positions traveling in the spending compensation system were equivalent to food files for the rest of the ministry employees -which have an individual personality. “This interpretation led to the announcement of” meals and tasks for travel expenses, with amounts except for the IRPF tax ” All the amounts collected In the statements of the travel expenses headed by the minister.

He adds that in exercises before 2018 and after 2019, it was not included in the information sent to Tax Agency The quantities related to high positions expenses that travel in the compensation system, “given that the total spending to one person is wrong and it is not possible to make an individual breakdown of expenses because the file of announcing expenses is unique for the entire authorization.”

“It should be noted that it is possible to attribute expenditures individually such as meal bills, or commissions to change the currency,” he says. However, it confirms this He will send “all the information” required from the upper During the period determined by the coach’s judge.

ábaalos, “I hope you see what an interpretation they offer.”

The former minister defended the accusations through journalist Sergio Bara in the program that is presented by Al -Saar in the name of “Fakhri collaborator”. He says who talks about these payments has no idea how the administration works and adds this There is no income, and less criticism“The editor, citing his textual words, was transmitted. ”

After he was asked whether this amount could be related to the floor in which he stayed during his time in the government, Albalos admitted that he was thinking about it as a possibility, but He denies knowing the origin of the numbers attributed to them: “I have no idea about where they get this. I look forward to seeing the interpretation they provide.”