FIFTEEN DAYS OF NOVEMBER: TWO ADMINISTRATIONS, ONE CALENDAR

If chance exists, November 2013 makes it hard to believe.

Day 6: the SPRI makes its move in the file (DOC-0138). Day 20: the Provincial Tax Authority of Bizkaia opens a tax inspection of the same man — and does so by official gazette, "on account of his being absent" (A.7), against a taxpayer who a year earlier was filing his income tax return there and collecting a refund. Day 26: the Deputy Minister for Industry signs in Vitoria-Gasteiz the resolution initiating the non-compliance file against International Technology Corp Soft (DOC-0138, pp. 24-25).

Fifteen days. Two different administrations — the regional industry department and the provincial tax authority — activating procedures against the same person, one declaring him absent while the other processes a file with all his details. Concentrations like this have two possible explanations: coincidence or common cause. The reader will decide; the calendar, at least, is already on the table.

Apolozan, for his part, was not silent: his complaint against the SPRI and the Deputy Minister for Industry is on record (A.12), in which he relates that after the first tranches of financing were received —353,000 euros— a non-compliance claim he considered fabricated was activated against the company. Note that figure: 353,000. It will reappear, almost exactly, in the final resolution.