Relative of Isaías brothers is accused of fraud for 2.3 billion pesos in Chile

According to the Internal Revenue Service, the Ecuadorian known as the «King of the Banana» self-facilitated false invoices issued by his companies

The Ecuadorian businessman, Gabriel Massuh Isaías, known as the «King of the Banana», is accused by the Chilean Internal Revenue Service (SII) of a multi-million dollar fraud, exceeding 2,300 million pesos. Massuh, who is nephew of Roberto and William Isaías, would have issued false invoices from other companies of which he is a legal representative and partner.

Gabriel Massuh Isaías is known among fruit importing and exporting companies as the «King of the Banana». Of Ecuadorian origin and nationalized Chilean, he has made a great fortune in the field and his products are sold in free fairs and large supermarket chains. Most of the banana consumed in Chile is imported by him. It also ships it to Europe, Asia, and the United States.

From being a successful businessman, he now became the target of the Internal Revenue Service, which syndicates him as the author and executor of tax crimes foreseen and sanctioned in Article 97 No. 4, second and final paragraph of the Tax Code that generated total tax loss. of 2,395,187,553 pesos.

The process involves 1,046 false invoices and simulated suppliers, in multiple monthly periods corresponding to four different tax years, and the cause today lies with the South Prosecutor, dependent on the Economic Crimes Unit.

It should be remembered that the businessman is the nephew of Roberto and William Isaías, former owners of the Filanbanco bank and identified as the main responsible for the bank holiday in Ecuador in the 1990s.

Source: Biobiochile – La Cuarta de Todos

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