National Court judge José Luis Calama asked the Spanish Office to the European Parliament to confirm whether Luis Pérez, known as Alviseholds the status of MEP.
With this formalism, the magistrate thus takes the first step to ask the Supreme Court to investigate Pérez for an alleged offense of illegal financing. As an MEP he is qualified and only the High Court can summon him to give evidence in an inquiry.
THE Anti-corruption prosecution had requested this procedure from the judge, after Calama suggested that Alvise testify on December 20, “voluntarily”before the National Court.
But the politician stood up to justice and did not appear. After that, Calama, asked Anticorruption whether to submit a reasoned statement to the Supreme Court, the name given to the document in which a judge expresses the evidence he has gathered against a defendant.
And what is the evidence against Pérez? He crypto-entrepreneur Alvaro Romillocreator of the Madeira Invest Club (MIC) group, admitted before the prosecution to having delivered 100,000 euros in cash to Pérez, so that he could finance his campaign for the European elections.
In fact, Romillo also provided dozens of conversations between the two, in which the politician, before and after securing a seat in Brussels, promises to lobby for his companies.
Following these events, Judge Calama opened a separate room from the file he was investigating. Essentially, he only investigated the alleged fraud committed by the MIC.
In this new branch, Calama began to analyze the possible illegal financing of the SALF, the group created by Pérez to participate in the European elections of 9-J. And, as part of this separate piece, he summoned both the crypto-entrepreneur like Alvise.
The first one did it and confirmed that he expected “future favors” by Pérez, when he obtained a seat in the European Parliament. Calama criticized Yegor Varela, Alvise’s lawyer, for not showing up. The lawyer suggested that he would suggest several dates when his client would be available. Ultimately, the MEP refused to appear before the National Court.
Through his Telegram channel, his preferred means of communicating with his subscribers, on November 20, Pérez requested “the file [de la causa] or his elevation to the Supreme Court to be able to declare and put an end to all this. » Then he called Romillo a “liar” and a “crook.”
Discussions
As noted in the aforementioned discussions, after receiving the money from this businessman, Alvise offered, in exchange, to advertise his business and benefit politically from it. He offered to defend his interests in the field of cryptocurrencies from the heart of the EU.
The conversation in question, to which this newspaper had access, is dated June 12. The agitator had already won representation in the European Parliament. Concretely, three seats for the electoral list he chaired, called Se Acabó La Fiesta.
“Bloomberg, The country, The World… I am complete interviews, but I want you to help me European lobby for the defense of crypto (sic), and take companies like yours as an example. And regulatory question. This is a historic opportunity for us to defend our financial integrity,” Alvise wrote, as contained in the aforementioned documentation.
Uno de los mensajes de Signal aportado por Romillo a la Fiscalía extraído de sus conversaciones con Alvise.
“Si quieres que nos veamos; por mí, perfecto. Pero estarás a tope…”, le responde Romillo. “Hoy y mañana imposible”, le dice Alvise. “Pero no me olvido: organizamos, planeamos y damos caña”, añade.
Pero no fue ésta la única vez que, según la documentación en poder de este medio, el polémico político prometió influir en la política europea en favor de Madeira Invest Club.
En otros de estos mensajes, fechado el pasado mes de mayo, antes de las elecciones, Pérez escribió a Romillo: “Las encuestas me dan hasta dos diputados [en el Parlamento Europeo]. If I can come in, we could organize discussions in the European Parliament to lobby massively on cryptocurrencies and fiscal independence. I would love to.”
All these messages were provided by Romillo to the prosecution, accompanied by an expert report which accredits their authenticity. And this complaint led to the opening of the aforementioned separate article which deals solely with the alleged illegal financing of the SALF, a crime for which the crypto-entrepreneurwho admitted to having made this payment in cash.
