{"id":12899,"date":"2011-06-23T06:47:38","date_gmt":"2011-06-23T10:47:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=12899"},"modified":"2011-06-23T06:47:38","modified_gmt":"2011-06-23T10:47:38","slug":"spain-probes-head-of-santander-for-tax-crimes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/spain-probes-head-of-santander-for-tax-crimes\/","title":{"rendered":"Spain probes head of Santander for tax crimes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The head of major Ferrari sponsor Santander is being investigated for suspected tax-related crimes, financial news sources are reporting.<\/p>\n<p>Bloomberg, the Wall Street Journal and the Financial Times say Emilio Botin &#8211; the red-jacketed F1 paddock regular &#8211; is under investigation by Spain&#8217;s National Court, alongside several of his family members.<\/p>\n<p>The scandal, involving Swiss accounts held by the Botin family members, coincides with the Spanish bank Santander&#8217;s annual shareholders&#8217; meeting.<\/p>\n<p>But the National Court said in a statement that if documentation provided by the Botin family is true, they will be &#8220;absolutely exonerated&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>A statement issued by Santander said the Botins have met all their tax obligations by &#8220;voluntarily&#8221; paying back EUR 200 million in taxes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The family hopes that this matter can be satisfactorily and quickly clarified by the court,&#8221; said lawyer Jesus Remon.<\/p>\n<p>The case will be settled by June 30.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The head of major Ferrari sponsor Santander is being investigated for suspected tax-related crimes, financial news sources are reporting. Bloomberg, the Wall Street Journal and the Financial Times say Emilio Botin &#8211; the red-jacketed F1 paddock regular &#8211; is under investigation by Spain&#8217;s National Court, alongside several of his family members. The scandal, involving Swiss &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[3160,5262,93,5340,151],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12899"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12899"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12900,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12899\/revisions\/12900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}