An operation by the Civil Guard and the Customs Surveillance Service has dismantled this Tuesday in Murcia a corporate plot with which a businessman intended to thwart the seizure of a marble quarry he owned, valued at 9.3 million euros. One of those involved is the industrialist Evedasto Lifante, imprisoned for a tax offense since 2019 and who in the last year, taking advantage of the irregular enjoyment of prison permits, had put in the name of figureheads a series of merchants with whom he allegedly tried to prevent the Treasury from auctioning off the property. exploitation to face the payment of a debt of 1.9 million with the treasury, according to the investigation. The five detainees this Tuesday are added to the four arrests made in the first phase of the operation, carried out in February, among which were a prison official and the then general director of highways of the regional government, José Antonio Fernández Lladó, accused of contacting the plot to avoid paying a fine that her spouse’s company had with the Treasury.
The one named as Operation Brubaker-Bunker It began in early 2021 when it was detected that Juan Manuel S., head of services at the Sangonera prison (Murcia), allegedly charged prisoners money in exchange for different favors, including facilitating access to prison benefits. The analysis of the bank accounts of this official by the Customs Surveillance experts revealed an unjustified increase in assets. The telephone interventions made it possible to detect the contacts he had with other people who, although they were not part of the alleged prison corruption scheme, did carry out other allegedly illegal activities. Among them was the businessman Enrique RO, also detained.
The investigation indicates that the prison official put Lifante in contact at the beginning of 2021, who was then incarcerated to serve a five-year sentence for tax fraud, with this businessman to agree on a complex corporate maneuver that would frustrate the execution of the embargo of the quarry. To do this, Enrique R. acquired in May, through his company Proyectos Inmobiliarios DAE, whose administrator was his sister María Rosa, a farm adjoining the quarry for 60,000 euros. Always according to sources of the investigation, two months later, Lifante and this businessman reached, through the figureheads who appeared as administrators of this company and the one that was recorded as the owner of the quarry, Yacimientos del Mediterráneo, to a demarcation agreement, by which a large part of the extension of the farm where the mining exploitation was located became part of the former.
As a third step, the same figureheads created a new company, Tres Minas Resources, for whose constitution the farm created after the demarcation was contributed. For this, the cadastral ownership of the land was allegedly altered. In this way, the property initially seized by the Treasury from the Lifante company no longer included the quarry and, therefore, lost practically all of its value. From 9.3 million euros it went to just over 200,000 euros, which was the value of the land once the rights to exploit the marble were lost. In February, when the first arrests were made, the plot was presumably executing the last steps of the fraud with the attempt to change the ownership of the mining concession. Now the two figureheads have also been arrested.
The investigation has revealed that Lifante (who entered prison in 2019 after being on the run for two years) had accessed in an allegedly irregular manner, from October 2021 to the third prison degree or semi-liberty, which allowed him only to have to go to jail from Monday to Thursday to sleep. For this, he allegedly used one of the companies created, Tres Minas Resources, which signed him a fictitious employment contract so that Penitentiary Institutions would agree to grant him the open regime. The investigators suspect that there were also irregularities in some exit permits that he had obtained before and for which the arrested official also allegedly intervened.
This part of the plot now dismantled has characters in common with the one he discovered in February, during the first phase of the operation and which ended with the arrest of the then general director of roads of the regional government. Fernández Lladó was, in fact, one of the people who, in his case in a “specific” manner, had asked for help from the plot allegedly headed by the prison worker and the businessman Enrique R. to solve a problem with the Treasury. Specifically, the PP politician requested help to obtain the postponement of a tax debt of 90,000 euros that a company of his wife had that was already out of time and suffered a 20% surcharge. To do this, the network intended to materialize a forgery of documents with the help of an official from the Alguazas City Council, where Fernández Lladó was mayor until 2015, and an official from the Treasury.
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