ex Deputy Mayor of Marbella, Pedro Román, has denied in court of having committed any fiscal crimes because his companies were based in Switzerland. He claimed neither to have directed or managed the companies.He told the instruction judge in the Malaya case on Thursday that he had not obligation to declare the money in Spain.
Román faces five counts of fiscal crimes which defrauded Hacienda nearly six million €. His case was originally being treated as separate from the main Malaya case, but now has been brought in by the instruction judge, Óscar Pérez.