One of the great and enigmatic unresolved holes in the Alvise affair This is the identity of the users of the 5,000 unidentified safes he opened Alvaro Romillo. And who turned, like the MEP, to this businessman who orchestrated an opaque system with which great fortunes could evade taxes visible to everyone in Spain.
Romillo was called Luis CryptoSpain doors to the outside. He admitted it in his confession a few weeks ago before the National courtin a sort of self-complaint: he explained that since 2021 he has dedicated himself to advising individuals and companies “so that they can obtain economic benefits through tax evasion.
And the truth is that this businessman achieved it, and without going to Panama or the Virgin Islands. He had established his community in the center of Madrid, in the heart of the Salamanca district. On Maldonado Street, Romillo built a business like someone who builds a tax haven to hide money in the form of cryptocurrencya virtual currency sought by police across Europe and, on many occasions, in connection with organized crime.
For the moment, the judge of the National Court Jose Luis Calama has already decided to investigate the investment platform Madeira Invest as an alleged pyramid scam.
Three complaints filed against Madeira Invest and several of its directors have already been admitted for processing. The judge emphasizes that The overall damage reported by the accusations would amount to more than 11 million eurosa figure which exceeds the mark of 7 million euros that the Supreme Court set as a parameter for granting jurisdiction to the National Court.
Safes
Little or nothing is known today about who, other than Alvise, may have used Romillo’s services. It’s a mystery that will be difficult to solve. THE National court He also has between his eyebrows the identity of those who, like the newly elected MEP, used the services of the businessman. crypto. However, no one knows what is inside these security compartments offered by the Madeira Invest Club through one of its instrumental companies.
Romillo himself claims to have no idea who requested his services.
According to the complaint filed by Lawyers in Aránguez against this businessman and other individuals in whose name some of the companies involved in this criminal conspiracy appear, those involved designed a system to illicitly obtain funds from victims who requested the services of these safes.
The method was based on what is commonly called a pyramid scheme, a Ponzi type scheme. This system is deployed on a company that does not actually exist. In it, contributions from new investors are used to support the withdrawals and interests of previous investors, until the system collapses.
All the accused acted, the complaint states, “under the hierarchical direction of Álvaro Romillo” from the beginning of 2023 until Monday September 16, 2024.
To do this, they created an investment platform from Madrid through the sale of luxury products. onlinewhich they call “digital art”. They called him Madeira Investment Cluba FinTech company (companies that provide financial services through technology and that offer benefits to their users based on weekly investments in the art market, luxury goods, etc.).
International framework
Romillo and his team offered investment opportunities, guaranteeing a profitability of 30 to 60% over the months depending on the product in which the investment was made. To set up the framework, Romillo used “purely instrumental instruments, authentic legal shells without real legal activity”. Some of them appear in his father’s name.
One of these companies is Sentinel Bqwhose address is the office in the Salamanca district where Alvise allegedly went to collect the 100,000 euros in black for his election campaign for which he could now be the subject of a Supreme Court investigation. “The security of anonymity at your disposal for your money”reads the company’s motto on its website.
Romillo offered the services of “the only space in Europe with more than 5,000 level 7 fortified lockers”, available for rental without any type of identification always in compliance with the law”. Romillo allowed you to store documentation, money, jewelry, watches, gold and USB devices. For the safety of customers, he proposed three guarantees “that no other space can offer you”: 24-hour military-grade protection, 1,000 million euro camera insurance and KYC-free (Know Your Customer) access.
This is something mandatory that all banking entities must comply with. This is not the case for cryptocurrency company Madeira Invest Club. In total, Romillo operated with eight instrumental companies located in different countries.
Following the lead on the Sentinel Db website, it refers to a company called BLV Services, Llc. located in Floridabut according to North American commercial data known to EL ESPAÑOL, the only company registered there does not match the one indicated by Romillo. The tax identification number doesn’t match either.
At the same time, as Judge Calama appreciated, there is a complex investigation, with a criminal network made up of multiple instrumental companies. and international connections: Sentinel Bq, Movsoft & Tr Sl, Wingwort, Sabrosso Lda., Elusionlegal Ou, Linnce Software SL, Artvendis Lda.
Already in 2023, the National Securities Market Commission (CNMV) defined this entire business network as a “financial beach bar” and warned that the entity was not authorized to engage in investment activities.
They are all companies with addresses in Portugal, USA, Republic Dominican, Estonia And Albania which, in the judge’s opinion, will require recurring recourse to the issuance of instruments of international judicial cooperation, for the purposes of determining the nature and circumstances of the events, the persons who participated in them, as well as the location of the financial assets.
Embargo
The victims have already requested the seizure of certain assets of the perpetrators of the alleged pyramid scheme. According to a file that EL ESPAÑOL was able to access, Madeira Invest Club offered a luxury resort in Punta Cana (Dominican Republic) that belonged to the Hidalgo clan, the family that owns the company. Air Europe.
The file is named bolsters and it details the creation of a bank with all kinds of facilities that traditional banks do not grant, as well as a possibility of investment in the hotel in question. This responds to the name of the El Cortecito hotel and was associated, according to sources close to the events consulted by this newspaper, with the Hidalgos.
Fragment of the file on investments in the Dominican Republic.
According to commercial documentation found in Panama and accessed by this newspaper, this property is also associated with Israel Dorado Pelegrino, allegedly involved in what is known as Rubiales case. During this investigation, the UCO of the Civil Guard discovered that one of Luis Rubiales’ partners had contacted this individual to “own businesses in the Dominican Republic and send money there”.
These properties, for the victims, are just another room in a labyrinth whose door was in the center of Madrid. The so-called tax haven began in these safes. But Romillo was much more ambitious. According to one of the audios of the case that EL ESPAÑOL was able to access, the cryptocurrency expert was already working on a unique novelty in the world. opaque structures in which this new digital currency is used: the creation of a credit card.
-You will now be able to request a free card, a Visa in the name of Sentinel, and you will recharge it with cash that you will deposit in Sentinel or recharge it in cryptocurrencies. You can make purchases, cash withdrawals anywhere in the world, as you wish. And it doesn’t identify you, but let’s say, for example, Sentinel user number 23. Which makes it awesome.
Apparently, as Romillo reveals in this audio, he had already applied for 5,000 credit cards for his clients. They were requested for mid-August, when I had planned to present this new service. “It’s something that will break him because there’s nothing like it in the world.”said.
Last mid-September, network activity disappeared. The Madeira Invest Club has closed its doors Web page without fulfilling any of its obligations, despite attempts at friendly contact by the people concerned to request the return of the invested capital, without any effectiveness.
Regarding safes, it is very likely that many of their users will prefer to remain anonymous in the months to come. Knowing that it was just a “financial beach bar” to avoid taxes, many of its users probably prefer to stay behind. Continue anonymously, don’t complain and lose this kind of investment, in exchange for your tax fraud identity not being revealed.
