Thirty years after Lola Flores’ trial for defrauding the Treasury, La Sexta TV show analyzes the case with our managing partner in Madrid, Luis Jordana de Pozas Gonzálbez, who was the prosecutor who investigated it.
You can see the full story here.
We are pleased to announce that, after seven years in the firm, with a professional career and impeccable involvement, the lawyer Anna Núñez Miró has been appointed Managing Partner of the Compliance Department of Molins Defensa Penal, a team that she has been leading in recent years.
The aim of this appointment is to continue consolidating and supporting the growth of the Compliance Department, which began in 2010 and currently has a team of six specialised lawyers. Since then, the Department has not stopped growing, both in terms of team and in the variety of services it provides for all types of companies and organisations, consolidating the firm as a reference in the Compliance sector.
Congratulations Anna!
We are pleased to announce that Luis Jordana de Pozas has joined Molins Defensa Penal this January as managing partner of our Madrid office, where he will lead a team of 7 professionals who are part of the more than 30 that make up our firm.
Luis Jordana de Pozas has over 25 years of experience as a criminal lawyer, during which time he created and directed the criminal department of Cuatrecasas as a partner of the Firm, where he joined after 14 years of service in the tax department. During these years he became the head of Dean's office in the economic crimes group of the Public Prosecutor's Office of the TSJ of Madrid. At the age of 34 he was awarded the Distinguished Cross of 1st class of the Order of San Raimundo de Peñafort.
Pau Molins, managing partner and founder of Molins Defensa Penal commented on the incorporation of Luis: "We are delighted with the arrival of Luis Jordana to our firm. We are convinced that his extensive experience in the field of economic crime and his knowledge will bring to our Madrid office the visibility that our firm has been seeking for years to complete the excellent team of lawyers we already have”
For his part, Luis has pointed out that Jordana commented: “It is always very exciting to start a new professional stage, and even more so in an institution of the prestige of Molins Defensa Penal, where we find first class professionals and a human quality that is difficult to match. All together, we are sure that we will provide the Madrid office with the visibility that the good work of its professionals deserves”.
The news in the media:
Expansión: “Luis Jordana de Pozas, nuevo socio director de Molins Defensa Penal en Madrid”.
Economist & Jurist: “Luis Jordana se incorpora a Molins Defensa Penal”.
Barcelona, January 11, 2023.
The Eighth Section of the Barcelona Provincial Court has acquitted of the well-known motorcycling driver Alfonso (Sito) Pons, currently manager of the PONS RACING team, in respect of the six tax offences for which both the Public Prosecutor and the Spanish and Catalan Tax Agencies had accused him, requesting sentences of over twenty years in prison.
Following the trial that took place in February and March of this year, the Court has declared it proven that, in the years between 2010 and 2014, Mr. Pons was not a tax resident in Spain, but in Monaco (2010 to 2012) and the United Kingdom (2013 to 2014), where, as stated in the sentence, the athlete “as a taxpayer, has declared income derived from work as an employee and self-employed, as well as interest earned”. Furthermore, the Court has considered it accredited that “most of Mr. Pons’ economic interests and financial assets and the core of his economic activity are concentrated and located outside Spanish territory, with the exception of some properties located in Spain”. The sentence also states that the management of the PONS RACING team was carried out by the British company SHOTMODE, “who held the participation rights in accordance with international regulations“. For all these reasons, the sentence acquits him of all the crimes for which he had been accused.
The defence of Sito Pons – exercised by the criminal lawyers Pau Molins, Jordi Pina and Miriam Company, of MOLINS DEFENSA PENAL, and the tax lawyer Iñaki Picaza, of PICAZA LEGAL – wish to express on behalf of Mr. Pons their satisfaction at the fact that, after so many years, the innocence of their client has been proven, having completely discredited accusations that, without any basis whatsoever, attributed serious tax frauds to him.
Barcelona, on 21 st December 2022
The Molins Defensa Penal team led by our managing partner, Pablo Molins Amat, together with the lawyer Miriam Company Marsà, presented last Friday, November 25, the defense brief on behalf of the artist. The lawyers defend throughout almost one hundred pages the innocence of Shakira and reject with multiple arguments the erroneous assumption held by the accusations that the singer would have resided in our country since 2011.
The legal defense fights in depth the accusatory thesis that Shakira established her residence in our country before 2015. Until 2011, Ms. Mebarak had no ties with Spain, except for a few concerts offered as part of her world tours. After meeting her long-time partner in the summer of 2010, they began an affectionate relationship which resulted in the birth of their two children, but it was not until the schooling of the first child at the end of 2014 and the renewal of the contract of former FCB player Gerard Piqué, that the artist decided to take up residence in Barcelona, reducing the volume of her professional commitments abroad and declining the renewal with the television program “The Voice” in Los Angeles.
Precisely the decision to fix her fiscal residence in Spain was communicated for the appropriate purposes to the AEAT, which accepted it without discussion, thus assuming that until that date she had not resided in our country. Since then (2015) and until now, Shakira has been scrupulously paying her taxes in Spain, despite the fact that this is not where her professional interests lie, nor her center of economic interests.
All these arguments will be addressed throughout the Oral Trial by the team of Molins Defensa Penal, a firm with extensive experience in the defense of tax crime accusations, fully confident in being able to demonstrate the absolute innocence of our client.
https://www.elmundo.es/loc/famosos/2022/11/25/6380a12921efa006768b45ea.html
