Madrid, 14 Feb. Borja Thyssen-Bornemisza, adopted son of Baron Thyssen, and his wife are on trial in Madrid on Tuesday for alleged tax evasion, for which they risk a request for three years in prison and a fine of one million euros.
The accused is the son of the Spanish Carmen Cervera, fifth wife of Hans Heinrich von Thyssen-Bornemisza (1921-2002), a Dutch businessman who ran a large multinational emporium, known above all as one of the most important painting collectors of the century. XX, with a collection widely exhibited in the museum that bears his name in Madrid.
A Madrid court judges Borja Thyssen-Bornemisza and his wife, Blanca Cuesta, for whom the prosecution is asking for three years in prison and a fine of one million euros for an alleged fraud against the Spanish Treasury of 336,417 euros in 2010 by the transfer of shares in your company to other Dutch companies.
According to the prosecution, both hid 1,586,037.39 euros from the public treasury to stop paying these 336,417, through companies without activity.
Borja Thyssen-Bornemisza (Madrid, 1980) was acquitted in 2019 of a charge of tax evasion for which he risked a minimum of two years in prison and the payment of more than one million euros, considering the court that it had not been demonstrated that he had to pay taxes in Spain if he resided in Andorra.
Last year, together with his mother, he signed an agreement with the Spanish State to extend for fifteen years, in exchange for nearly one hundred million euros, the exhibition at the museum inaugurated in 1992 of part of the collection that includes hundreds of paintings from the 19th century From the 13th to the 20th century, by authors such as Dürer, Caravaggio, Rembrandt, Canaletto, Monet, Degas, Van Gogh, Gauguin, Hopper, Renoir or Kandinsky. EFE
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