Julio Martínez authorizes the Treasury to review the accounts of the company that paid €390,000 to Zapatero

Businessman Julio Martínez, investigated in the Plus Ultra case, has authorized the Treasury to review the bank accounts of Analysis Relevante, the consulting firm he runs and which paid 390,000 euros to former president José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero between 2021 and 2024.

This is stated in the proceedings of the Tax Agency Inspection sent to Judge José Luis Calama, who is investigating the Plus Ultra case. The magistrate agreed this Friday to paralyze the tax inspections of Zapatero, his wife, his daughters and the businessman Julio Martínez, since the former president and his family maintain that these investigations interfere with their defense before the criminal procedure.

Given the lack of part of the requested documentation, the Treasury asked the judge last Wednesday to stop the inspections and Calama agreed. With the suspension, the statute of limitations is interrupted and the maximum period of inspections is stopped, pending the end of the case.

However, Martínez appeared on September 29 before the Inspection in Alicante as sole administrator of Relevant Analysis. There he signed the consent for the Treasury to directly claim the movements of the company's accounts from the banks between 2021 and 2025, and expressed his willingness to collaborate "to the extent that it is materially possible."

In that appearance, the businessman asked the Treasury for the data it had about the company, and the Inspection detailed the payments that the company itself had declared to Zapatero: 75,000 euros in 2021, 110,000 in 2022, 110,000 in 2023 and 95,000 in 2024. To Whathefav, the company of the daughters of former president, Relevant Analysis paid him another 177,870 euros.

However, Martínez did not deliver the documentation that the Treasury demanded. He alleged that it is in the computers and files seized by the court, whose return Calama denied him on March 31, which in his opinion constitutes a case of "supervening material impossibility, completely beyond his control."

His position contrasts with that of Zapatero, his wife and daughters, who have refused to authorize access to their accounts. The family representative warned that "all documentation that may have implications in said criminal process will not be submitted to this tax procedure until the completion of the judicial case."

According to data from the Treasury, Relevant Analysis began operating in February 2020, it does not have workers, properties or vehicles and is not registered under any heading of the Economic Activities Tax. His tax address is in Petrer (Alicante) and the Inspection reiterated that he explain what activity he carries out and with what means.

Between 2021 and 2024, the consulting firm declared income from four clients for a total of 704,488 euros. One of them was Plus Ultra, which paid him 18,150 euros in 2021, 79,860 euros in 2023 and 87,120 euros in 2024. In 2025, with the case already open, the airline paid him another 79,860 euros.

The payments to Zapatero and his daughters total 567,870 euros, 81% of what the company declared income in those four years. In 2024, Plus Ultra was its only declared client: the consulting firm earned 87,120 euros and paid 138,560 to the former president's family.

In his personal inspection, the Treasury has asked Martínez to justify why he did not present the income tax return for 2021, 2022 and 2023. In the 2025 tax return, presented on June 9, he included a capital gain of 286,000 euros and a result to be entered of 65,792.60 euros, with a request for postponement.