The long list of conversations that MEP Alvise Pérez has had in recent months with the founder of the Madeira Invest Club, Álvaro “Luis” Romillo, the one who gave him the 100,000 euros in cash that the leader of Se Acabó La Fiesta demanded (SALF) for election campaigns and to pay for lost lawsuits, it also includes information in which the politician warns the crypto businessman that he is under investigation by the Central operational unit of the Civil Guard.
This happened during a telephone conversation they had two weeks ago, on September 13, and which, like the rest of the evidence that incriminates Alvise, was provided in the document that Luis Romillo presented to the prosecution in case his activities in front of the financial club “could constitute a crime”. In the interview, in which Alvise pledges to lobby in Brussels for the cryptocurrency sector and Romillo’s own company, Madeira Invest Club, and even to establish the conditions for a future government pact with Alberto Núñez Feijóo and Santiago Abascal, to protect the interests of the businessman, the MEP warns of an investigation against Romillo of which he became aware after the visit of an agent of the Central Operational Unit of the Guard civil.
In the conversation, Alvise ends up accusing the CNMV of being a corrupt organization controlled by “ibexes” whom he tried to investigate. Throughout the conversation, which lasts 17 minutes and takes place three days before Romillo announced the closure of the Madeira Invest Club for not being able to pay the promised high returns, up to 53%, the MEP invites the founder of Madeira Invest to organize discussions in the European Parliament with public funds and to propose “10,000 measures to defend cryptocurrencies and the companies that operate with them”.
In the presentation, the founder of the Madeira Invest Club tries to distance himself from all the initiatives that Alvise offers him because he understands that his proximity to the politician and the interest of certain media which have published several pieces of information about his links have encouraged police investigations. this led to the blockade of the bank accounts of this financial club.
This same Monday, September 16, three days after this interview, the founder of the Madeira Invest Club announced the closure of its operations. Since then, thousands of investors have organized through different law firms to denounce an alleged scam that has already reached the National Court. One of the platforms involved demanded that Alvise be charged and that the 100,000 euros he collected in cash from the financial club be returned to him.
The MEP, for his part, did not deny the collection of this money in cash, which he requested from Romillo in several messages in which he said he needed “funds that do not need to be controlled by the Court of Auditors. In a message on his Telegram channel, Alvise Pérez suggests that he received it as an independent, even if in the screenshots provided to the prosecution, he himself wrote to his donor after receiving the 100,000 euros in cash: “Thanks, man “You are entrusting me with an urgent part of the campaign.”
The day after receiving the funds, candidate Alvise began a tour that took him to 16 Spanish cities and ended with a major end-of-campaign event in the Plaza de Colón in Madrid.
The prosecution of the Supreme Court, the only one competent to indict Alvise given his status as a European deputy, is investigating whether the receipt of 100,000 euros by the businessman to whom he promised to legislate in favor of his company and messages requesting funds “which do not need to be controlled by the Court of Auditors” constitute an offense of illegal financing.
