Far-right MEP Alvise Pérez has informed the National Court that he will “ultimately” not make a “statement” before the judge investigating him for illegal financing after a cryptocurrency businessman confessed to him having paid the full 100,000 euros in European cash. election campaign.
After admitting the complaint, Judge José Luis Calama offered the MEP, given his status as a certified person, the possibility of testifying voluntarily. He was initially summoned on November 20, but he did not appear at the National Court.
His lawyer, present at the businessman’s deposition scheduled for the same day, expressed his client’s desire to appear before the judge and announced that he would offer him other dates so that he could can attend “next week or the week after”. This fact motivated the judge to contact him on November 22 to inform him of the “availability” of the MEP “to testify voluntarily”.
Finally, Alvise’s representation responded to the magistrate that “although he communicated that the intention of the MEP” was to “come and testify in the coming days”, it was ultimately decided that Pérez would not attend this statement.
Álvaro Romillo, the businessman investigated in the alleged Madeira Invest Club (MIC) pyramid scam, admitted on November 20 before the judge that he had paid these 100,000 euros in cash to Alvise Pérez in the hope that he would do her “future favors”. “”. Romillo was summoned to appear in an investigation opened for illegal financing after admitting in a document presented to the prosecution to having paid this sum to the man who was then a candidate and now a member of the European Parliament.
As revealed by elDiario.es, the ultra agitator developed a relationship with Romillo, leader of a financial investment club and businessman in the cryptocurrency sector, to the point that the aspiring MEP participated at an event to promote his now-defunct platform. Madeira Investment Club.
The exchange of messages that contributed to the affair reveals that Alvise discussed his financing needs and Romillo ended up offering to collect 100,000 euros in hand, cash and black money through Sentinel, a company dedicated to facilitating money exchanges under a promise of complete confidentiality. managed 5,000 safes in an armored fortification in the heart of Madrid. Money which, according to Alvise, he needed to cover electoral expenses, compensation for trials and which, above all, had to escape the control of the Court of Auditors.
After exposing the scandal, Alvise admitted to receiving the money, but he attributed the payment to work he did as a “freelancer”, which he did not specify and which does not appear in conversations with the businessman. Before the judge, Romillo admitted that in reality Alvise “did nothing”, but that he paid him this money while waiting for “future favors” which would grant him a return and which were “to be defined”, but among which he cited possible actions “in the Sentinel” or “commercial activities”.
