A few months before becoming a Member of the European Parliament, the agitator Alvise Perez acknowledged the businessman Alvaro Romillo who is lobbying in Brussels in favor of cryptocurrencies.
Romillo, known by his pseudonym CryptoSpainwas the owner of Madeira Investment Club. And this businessman recently submitted a letter to the state attorney general’s office in which he confesses having paid 100,000 eurosin cash, to Perez to finance his campaign.
Madeira Invest Club, which surprisingly closed its doors two weeks ago, was a crypto asset investment platform that had been identified in 2023 by the National Securities Market Commission (CNMV), which warned that the company did not have the necessary licenses for such activity.
Despite this, the then candidate for the European Parliament participated last April in an event held at the La Zarzuela racecourse during which he promoted investment in this company specializing in digital works of art in NFT format (non-fungible token).
Romillo presented the aforementioned document to the State Attorney General’s Office on the 19th. In addition to confessing to having paid 100,000 euros to Alvise, he provided a 50-page annex with the messages exchanged with Alvise through the encrypted messaging application Signal.
EL ESPAÑOL has had access to this documentation, which was sent this morning to the Office of the Prosecutor of the Supreme Court, because it concerns a Member of the European Parliament registered before said court.
The Public Prosecutor’s Office will now study this documentation and verify whether Pérez committed the crime of illegal party financing by accepting this payment, which exceeds the maximum allowed by law. As stated in these messages, after receiving the money from this businessman, Alvise offered him in exchange to advertise his company. He also offered to defend the opaque trade of cryptocurrencies at the community level.
The conversation in question, to which EL ESPAÑOL had access, is dated June 12. The agitator Alvise had already obtained representation in the European Parliament.
“Bloomberg, The country, The World… I am complete of interviews, but I want you to help me European lobby for the defense of cryptography and takes companies like yours as an example. And regulatory issue. This is a historic opportunity for us to defend our financial integrity,” Alvise wrote, as contained in the aforementioned documentation.
“If you want to meet, that’s fine with me. But you’ll be full…”, Romillo replies.
“Today and tomorrow are impossible,” Alvise told him. “But I don’t forget: we organize, we plan and we work hard,” he added.
National Court
The Central Instruction Court number 4 of the National Court has already opened proceedings regarding the alleged fraud at the Madeira Invest Club. An association of affected persons, affiliated with the Aránguez Abogados firm, has requested that an investigation be carried out into Alvise Pérez and, consequently, that the case be brought before the Supreme Court.
The law on party financing prohibits anonymous donations. In addition, it sets a limit on the amount of money that each political party can receive directly or indirectly from the same person. This figure cannot exceed 50,000 euros per year. Those exceeding 25,000 must be notified to the Court of Auditors within three months of their receipt.
