Officials from the Sub-Secretary of State for Taxation (SET) were carrying out their checks on Thursday, Three Kings Day, in Mercado 4, when at one point they were forced to withdraw at the request of Juan Villalba, director of the crowded shopping center, visibly upset. In other words, the SET officials were kicked out of the place.
One day after these incidents, Villalba gave his version of the events. He affirmed that no one interfered with the work of the officials, until one of the permit holders called him to complain about these intervenors for alleged mistreatment.
“I send it to my head of operations to verify if the complaints and reports received are real. My chief of operations arrives and is mistreated by them. My chief of operations comes and he reports that to me, to which I reply that he was going to talk to the auditors later. Thus, at 6:00 p.m. I meet them during one of my afternoon tours. I told him that there are complaints and denunciations, and if they had a special mission or work orders, since we previously held an inter-institutional work group where we defined all the details. Given this, I am surprised when this man begins to treat me badly, ”he explained.
“They come to my house, they treat me badly and they have the luxury of being angry, so grab your people if they are going to continue being aggressive,” were the words that Villalba gave to the intervenors according to his own account of the events.
Villalba assured that he did not want to interrupt at any time the work of the SET officials since he is in favor of formalization.
“One of my dreams is the formalization of all officials so that they can access the State as taxpayers,” he said.
Óscar Orué, minister of the SET, did not call Villalba to find out his version. The inspector with whom the discussion took place is called Carmona, we tried to speak to him, but from the SET they informed us that they did not have the order to provide us with his telephone contact.
