Kühn refuses to testify before the judge investigating him for allegedly defrauding the Treasury of 25 million euros.

PalmReal estate developer Matthias Kühn invoked his right not to testify this Monday before the Palma court investigating him for embezzlement, procedural fraud, and criminal insolvency. Kühn appeared at the Via de Alemania courthouse shortly before 9:15 a.m. (he was scheduled to appear at 9:30 a.m.) and left the courtroom shortly before 10:00 a.m. after failing to testify before the judge.

His children, who are also under investigation, did the same. The judge has summoned other suspects for this Tuesday, including lawyer Jorge Sáenz de Barana, the businessman's right-hand man. Kühn, his children, and the other aforementioned individuals are being investigated for alleged crimes of embezzlement and criminal insolvency following a complaint filed by the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office and prior to the ruling by the Balearic Islands Court of Justice (TSJIB) on the rezoning of Muleta II, for which they received compensation for the land.

The businessman's lawyer, Jaime Campaner, points out that he has submitted numerous procedural documents containing documentation that, in his opinion, demonstrate the "biased, one-way, and partial" nature of the investigation sponsored by the Tax Agency, insofar as such documents and papers have not been evaluated. The businessman, for his part, has stated that the alleged tax fraud through shell companies refers to the debt owed by the group's companies that have been in bankruptcy proceedings since 2016 and 2019, and in which the businessman resigned as a director.

The businessman insists that neither he nor anyone in his entourage or within his business group has ever attempted to conceal Muleta's compensation or prevent the Tax Agency from collecting its debts from that compensation. On the contrary, he points out that in 2018, Kühn Group's lawyers and advisors offered the Tax Agency this compensation in writing as security for all of the group's debts, and the Tax Agency rejected it.

Regarding the sale of the shares in Birdie Son Vida, the company that owed Muleta compensation, he says that it was judicially authorized and the Tax Agency chose not to appeal the authorization. However, he regrets that Kühn now intends to maintain that this transaction constitutes a crime.