National Court judge José Luis Calama asked the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office if it should ask the Supreme Court the accusation of Alvise Pérez.
As he is an MEP, only the High Court could investigate him and force him to testify under this condition.
Calama suggested that Pérez appear voluntarily on November 20 before the National Court. The politician initially appealed this summons, while EL ESPAÑOL moved forward. And finally, I didn’t come on the scheduled date. That day, his lawyer, Yegor Varela, told the judge he would offer several alternative dates.
However, Alvise ultimately definitively refused to testify before Calama. And the magistrate, in a resolution dated this Wednesday and to which EL ESPAÑOL had access, asked the prosecutor in charge of the case if he should send a reasoned statement to the Supreme Court.
What is a reasoned declaration? Document in which an investigating judge gathers all existing evidence against a certified person.
And what is the evidence against Pérez? He crypto-entrepreneur Alvaro Romillocreator of the Madeira Invest Club (MIC) group, admitted before the prosecution to have 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 men, in which the politician, before and after securing a seat in Brussels, promised him that will lobby in favor of their companies.
Following these events, Judge Calama opened a separate case, different from the main case, in which only Romillo is under investigation for the alleged fraud committed by the MIC.
In this branch, Calama has started to investigate possible illegal financing of The party is over (SALF)the group created by Pérez to participate in the European elections of 9-J. And he summoned the two crypto-entrepreneur like Alvise.
The first did so and confirmed that he expected “future favors” from Pérez, when he obtains a seat in the European Parliament.
Although there is a main element (in which the alleged fraud is being investigated) and a separate one (on the possible illegal financing of the SALF), in his resolution this Wednesday, Judge Calama asks the prosecution whether he should refer “the entire case” to the Supreme Court (…), given that the facts investigated in this procedure are inseparable with regard to their investigation.”
On the other hand, in a writing to which this newspaper had access, the Cryptocurrency Users Associationone of the defendants in this case and who represents hundreds of MIC investors, asked Calama to again offer Alvise Pérez to testify voluntarily.
If their offer is unsuccessful, this group of plaintiffs, attached to the Aránguez Abogados law firm, demands that the judge send a reasoned declaration against the MEP to the Supreme Court.
