The owner of Club de Futbol Santos Laguna, Alejandro Irarragorri Gutiérrez, was summoned to a hearing on August 28 for possible tax fraud of more than 17 million pesos in 2017.
That year, according to the Treasury Department, the directors devised a strategy to avoid withholding or paying the ISR of 54 million pesos that were paid to 26 players and members of the coaching staff, but which were registered as “work risk compensation premiums,” which are legally exempt from that tax.
REFORMA reported on June 27, 2023 that the FGR was already investigating Irarragorri, president and director of Grupo Orlegi, owner of Santos and Atlas.
The FGR’s investigation file was initiated after the Federal Public Prosecutor’s Office (PFF) filed a complaint against Santos Laguna, its president Alejandro Irarragorri, and José Alfredo Jiménez Tejeda, a member and general representative of the club.
The recipients of the funds were directors such as José Manuel de la Torre and Benjamín Galindo and players such as Néstor Araujo, Djaniny Tavares, Jonathan Rodríguez, Osvaldo Martínez, Jonathan Orozco, Diego de Buen, Javier Abella and Julio César Furch, among others.
Irarragorri will have the option to request that his legal situation be resolved on the same day. If he is brought to trial, he will be able to face it on provisional release because the crime does not merit preventive detention, unless the FGR alleges that there is a risk that he may flee.
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