Operation Chopín II: The agents broke into both clubs and the offices of Grupo Empresas Matutes for their registration. Both Pachá and Ushuaïa Ibiza Beach Hotel claim to comply with the law
La National Police of Ibiza and Madrid and Tax Agency he came in early on Thursday morning at the offices of Ushuaïa Ibiza Beach Hotel and discotheque Pachá to effect two registers. In the case of Pacha, the agents have broken in at the time of closure, to thus take advantage of the surprise factor. Also being inspected Offices of the Matutes Companies Group en Ibiza.
During the day yesterday, both companies they rushed to deny different information that appeared in some media and they assured that they comply with the legality and understand that such interventions should be completed.
This intervention would be part of the second phase of 'Operation Chopín' that was carried out el last July in the clubs Amnesia and Privilege of Ibiza, in addition to different areas of Spain against tax fraud in the nightlife sector.
Apparently, agents who have traveled to Ibiza to develop this operation (about 40 in total) have arrived in several Customs ships that have been seen docked at the island's port.
La 'Operation Chopín', As it was baptized in Spain, it was the greater performance effected to date by the Treasury against black sales and tax fraud. More from 500 Agents of the Tax Agency participated in this complex intervention in which 110 companies and 87 clubs and pubs were inspected. In the Balearic Islands there were four registered premises.
It should be remembered that the intervention carried out by the Central Operating Unit of the Civil Guard and Treasury agents last month of July in the nightclubs Amnesia and Privilege Ibiza was settled, in the case of Amnesia, with the arrest of its owner Martín Ferrer, that of his son and two other people that, finally, were provisional releases without bail. This procedure was most spectacular since it started with the landing a helicopter in the club parking right at the end of the party.
