Medina’s partner in the ‘mask case’ seeks to avoid the seizure of assets and explains to the judge that he does not have the 4.6 million from the embargo because they went to the Treasury and to “family expenses”
The businessman Alberto Luceño, investigated for crimes of fraud, money laundering and documentary falsehood in the ‘mask case’, strikes back before appearing this Monday before the judge in Madrid. The investigated has sent a dense letter to the Court of Instruction number 47 in which he seeks, on the one hand, to avoid the imputation of a new crime, in this case the seizure of assets that already falls on his partner Luis Medina, and on the other he tries to justify why it cannot face the 4.6 million embargo requested by Judge Adolfo Carretero.
This is the same amount that Luceño received as a commission for his mediation in the Madrid City Council contract with a Malaysian company for the acquisition of medical supplies in the first wave of the pandemic, in April 2020. An award for which They received commissions of between 60 and 80% of the value of the products: masks, gloves and diagnostic tests for Covid-19.
According to the businessman’s brief, if the judge has not been able to seize the money that the Prosecutor’s Office asked to intervene, it is not because he has hidden it, but because there never was such an amount. The reason, he explains, is the payment of taxes for the acquisition of luxury goods, about 700,000 euros, and because his funds have been declining given the “family and business day-to-day expenses” of the last two years.
Luceño details that the sum of his new home, the high-end cars he still had and that he bought with that money, plus a handful of luxury watches and the funds in the bank accounts did not reach 4.6 million. They were 2.4 million. Consequently, the instructor asked the accusations to propose economic measures to be adopted and in the case of the political party Más Madrid, he requested an investigation of assets.
Luceño provides in his writing income statements, bank movements and operating contracts, as well as a detailed list of his daily expenses. He mentions from the payment of the children’s university to the water bills, car rental, parking, private insurance or the foundations with which he collaborates.
«In short, these are some of the many existing expenses, and although for an exact overview of them we would need to carry out a kind of audit that we are not currently in a temporary position to do, their mention –and the existence of others, that we have surely omitted (food, internet, clothing, etc.)– shows that there has been no crime of concealment of assets of any kind. They are the family’s day to day, for two years, “argues the businessman.
“There are no illicit money outflows”
In any case, he does not agree that the full amount of the commission should be seized, because he paid taxes both on the income and on the house in Pozuelo de Alarcón (Madrid) that he acquired with the money and, therefore, “Both tax payment amounts are not necessarily in the assets of Mr. Luceño or his company, but of the corresponding tax authorities.”
According to his lawyer, “the sum of business and family expenses during this entire period of time, plus the amounts seized, taxes paid, etc., makes it clear that there have been no illicit outflows of assets.”
It also adds that these expenses are “the day-to-day business as well”, because “their maintenance is important, precisely so that the company can generate profits that, by court order, can serve to ensure hypothetical civil responsibilities.” To do this, he highlights his collaboration with the justice system with one piece of information: despite the fact that his business account is already blocked, he continues to receive money there and proves that when the bank was ordered to freeze the funds there was just over 119,000 euros and this week, the extract returns 210,416 because the company, Takamaka, continues to generate income.
“Currently Takamaka is involved in an international sale of oil,” says the letter, which provides several business contracts that it has underway and a “table with the income that, barring unforeseen events, the company will receive” in the coming months, exceeding these forecasts. million dollars of income”, he anticipates, which will be deposited in the seized account.
As for the luxury cars that were listed as acquired with the commission and that have been sold, he argues that the company is also engaged in the rental or resale of this type of automobile and that the profits generated are in the same account that is already seized. . He provides the sales contracts and explains that one of them the buyer has pending payment of 100,000 euros that he must pay next May and June.
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