Alberto Luceño was the great stranger of the Mascarillas case of the Madrid City Council and has now become the only convicted of the cause. The Provincial Court has imposed three years and eight months in jail for defrauding taxes and falsifying documentation, but acquits both him and his aristocratic partner, Luis Medina, to scam the town hall of José Luis Martínez-Almeida.
Luceño, anonymous for the general public until his name appeared stamped on a complaint of the Anti -Corruption Prosecutor’s Office after an investigation that was revealed by eldiario.es, was accused of pretending to be an expert in the Asian market, of falsifying documents and even deceiving their own partner (and friend at the time) to take even higher commissions than they had agreed to the margin of the administration. In the trial he denied the deception and unloaded the responsibility of the exorbitant prices of the masks in his Malay provider, which he did not declare in the trial,
Alberto Luceño Cerón is an entrepreneur with a winding trajectory, of what has been called entrepreneur, and The few references that there are to its history they explain that in 1993 “he won the best young businessman in Spain in the franchise sector.” The only award with a similar denomination is the one granted by the Spanish Confederation of Young Entrepreneurs and According to your website That year no award was delivered.
Its curriculum is truffled with positions in places such as the European Directorate and Business School, the Ibero -American Sustainability Forum, the Board of Directors of the Textile Asociación Acotex (2014) and subsequently brands such as ‘One of 50’ or ‘Poéte’. That most public face of his career left, for example, an intervention before the students of the school that has already been erased from YouTube, but in which Luceño could be heard to explain what their values were. “Honesty, generosity, humility, integrity,” he proclaimed himself from the stage.
Face B of its business journey is in the Official Gazette of the Mercantile Registry. In 2010, a unique administrator of a consultant called Gekko was proclaimed. A year after, in addition, Luis Medina Abascal was appointed sole administrator of another consulting company called Gekko Partners. The same day of April 2015, Luceño was appointed sole administrator of three coup companies that had been created a month before: the consultant Trendstter Capsule, the consultant Fly Fishing and a third consultant called Rip and Roll, the three with a registered office in the same house in Madrid. Two months later he puts himself at the head of another consultant, Iprojects Design.
This ball of companies was born long before in 2020, according to the Prosecutor’s Office, it was launched from the hand of Luis Medina Abascal to for the contracts that the Madrid City Council attached for eleven million euros to buy a company Malaya masks, antibody and gloves test. Those contracts that now investigates the 47th Court of Madrid had hidden juicy commissions for both and were signed and charged a few months before opening their last company: Takamaka Invest. A company with a website but without contact telephone and dedicated, supposedly, to the “commercial intermediation or sale to diverse products commission, both nationally and internationally.”
The first official reference to international trade in its companies and societies comes, therefore, after charging five million in commissions out of Madrid public coffers. But he appeared before the Madrid City Council as an expert in the Asian market that could bring health material at a time of maximum need and in an inhospitable context of exorbitant prices and sometimes defective material. Luis Medina Abascal took him there, who in turn arrived at the City Council through Carlos Martínez-Almeida, a cousin and friend of the mayor who works in a private firm and that so far has avoided giving explanations.
Altruism and benefits
In a moment when Spanish municipalities were looking for material until under the stones and with the international supply chain converted into a Persian market, Alberto Luceño presented himself as the Savior of the workers of the essential services of the city of Madrid, where hundreds of people died up to date victims of the coronavirus. He said, according to Anticorruption, that he was not only an expert in bringing Asia products: he boasted from having factories in China at his disposal and being an exclusive agent of the Malaysian company that was going to bring the masks and gloves. In addition, he added, he did this “moved by the desire to collaborate in the fight against pandemic.”
The reality is that Luceño did not open its first and only company dedicated to import and mediation until months later, there is no trace of its factories in China, it did not have a significant experience in the sector and was not the exclusive agent of Leno, the company that finally hired the Madrid City Council. Of course, according to the Prosecutor’s Office he did not act “moved by any altruistic intention.” His intention and Luis Medina’s was “to obtain an exaggerated and unjustified economic benefit.” Six million euros, which had reached 10 if the sale of a millionaire departure of defective gloves that the City Council asked to return would have thrown out.
With more experience in the business field than his partner Medina Abascal, whose only work consisted of getting into the City Council as he has recognized himself, Luceño then undertook a parallel plan. He agreed commissions with Medina, but behind the Malaysian company to pay him even more behind him. For example, in the sales contract of one million masks the two had agreed a commission of one million dollars for each one, but he ended up taking three million. In another of the contracts it was he who decided that Medina would not charge his commission, but he did guarantee his. It was also Luceño who, according to the Prosecutor’s Office, cheated the City Council with the price of gloves that were not even the ones they had asked.
The plan to collect millionaire commissions was complicated when it was time to manage the loot. The money came quickly from Malaysia to Madrid to the accounts of Luceño and Medina, who had to give explanations to the bank when the entities requested the justification of that income. It was then that Alberto Luceño, an entrepreneur, collided with an article of the Criminal Code: the documentary falsehood. He simulated several documents and signatures to justify his business relationship with the Malaysian company. And he helped Medina to do the same with his own firm when he also had to respond to his bank for his newcomer fortune from Asia.
The Prosecutor’s Office investigated whether, decided to introduce its commissions in the legal year based on buying luxury products in a scandalous way: three watches, a dozen super -lust cars, a house of more than one million euros in the richest municipality in Spain, in addition to a week in a Marbella hotel at the rate of more than 10,000 euros a night.
Medina gave an interview with El Confidencial to admit his commission and warn that everything is legal and that the figures are normal for this type of operations. Pictures of the sailboat that registered in the name of a society of Gibraltar circulate and with which it sails in Sotogrande and even statements to the pink press that the ship was a dream fulfilled.
The result, at least for the moment, is a three -year sentence and eight months in jail for Luceño and an acquittal for Luis Medina. A sentence that, if firm, will force the employer to enter prison. The first three years in jail are for all the money that defrauded the Treasury hiding the commission, and the remaining eight months to falsify documents: those used to freely travel despite the health restrictions or to impersonate the CNI agent.
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