Zapatitos promised jewellery invoices 16 days ago and still hasn't produced them
Zapatitos promised jewellery invoices within 8-10 days. Sixteen days on, there is no sign of them. The statute of limitations as an alibi and lawfare as a smokescreen.
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Zapatitos promised jewellery invoices 16 days ago and still hasn't produced them
The numbers don't add up. On 8 October (a tentative date), the figure known as Zapatitos said he would produce, within 8 to 10 days, the invoices proving the legal origin of a batch of jewellery whose fiscal trail had vanished. Sixteen days have passed. Not a trace of the paperwork. The official excuse is wearing thin.
Those who argue this is all part of a lawfare campaign point to the statute of limitations as the way out. But the argument has a catch: to claim the offence has lapsed, you must show when the jewellery was acquired, and that is precisely what the invoices are supposed to prove. No invoices, no purchase date. And without a date, the clock on the statute of limitations never starts.
Meanwhile, scepticism is growing in public opinion. Comparisons with other cases – the Generalitat suits, the property crash – are inevitable. The sense of selective impunity is taking hold.
The judicial calendar does not have to match the electoral one. But if the strategy was to wait for the noise to die down, the silence over the invoices is not helping. Whether next week brings paperwork or another postponement remains to be seen.
The numbers don't add up. On 8 October (a tentative date), the figure known as Zapatitos said he would produce, within 8 to 10 days, the invoices proving the legal origin of a batch of jewellery whose fiscal trail had vanished. Sixteen days have passed. Not a trace of the paperwork. The official excuse is wearing thin.
Those who argue this is all part of a lawfare campaign point to the statute of limitations as the way out. But the argument has a catch: to claim the offence has lapsed, you must show when the jewellery was acquired, and that is precisely what the invoices are supposed to prove. No invoices, no purchase date. And without a date, the clock on the statute of limitations never starts.
Meanwhile, scepticism is growing in public opinion. Comparisons with other cases – the Generalitat suits, the property crash – are inevitable. The sense of selective impunity is taking hold.
The judicial calendar does not have to match the electoral one. But if the strategy was to wait for the noise to die down, the silence over the invoices is not helping. Whether next week brings paperwork or another postponement remains to be seen.
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