The far-right MEP Alvise Pérez has informed the National Court that he will “finally” not “give a statement” before the judge investigating him for illegal financing after a cryptocurrency businessman confessed that he had paid him 100,000 euros in cash in full. European 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 for last November 20, although he did not attend the National Court.
His lawyer, who attended the businessman’s statement scheduled for that same day, communicated his client’s willingness to appear before the judge and announced that he would offer other dates so that he could attend “next week or the following week.” This fact motivated the judge to address him on November 22 to convey the MEP’s “availability” “to testify voluntarily.”
Finally, Alvise’s representation has responded to the magistrate that “although he communicated that it was the MEP’s intention” to “come to testify in the coming days, finally” the decision was made that Pérez would not attend said statement.
Álvaro Romillo, the businessman investigated in the alleged pyramid scam of Madeira Invest Club (MIC), admitted on November 20 before the judge that he had paid those 100,000 euros in cash to Alvise Pérez in the expectation that he would do him “future favors.” ”. Romillo was summoned to appear in an open investigation for illegal financing after he confessed in a document presented to the Prosecutor’s Office to have paid that amount to the then candidate and now 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 then aspiring MEP participated in an event to promote his platform. —now defunct— Madeira Investment Club.
The exchange of messages contributed to the case reveal that Alvise discussed his financing needs and Romillo ended up offering to collect 100,000 euros in hand, in cash and in black through Sentinel, a firm dedicated to facilitating money exchanges under a promise of total confidentiality. which managed 5,000 safe deposit boxes in an armored fortification in the heart of Madrid. Money that, according to Alvise, he needed to cover electoral expenses, compensation for lawsuits and that, above all, had to escape the control of the Court of Accounts.
After breaking the scandal, Alvise admitted that he had received that money but attributed the payment to work he did as a “self-employed person”, which he has not specified and which does not appear in the conversations with the businessman. Before the judge, Romillo has acknowledged that in reality Alvise “did not do anything”, but that he paid him that money waiting for “future favors” that would grant him a return and that were “to be defined”, but among which he has cited possible actions “in the Sentinel” or “commercial activities.”
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