Álvaro Romillo, the businessman investigated in the alleged pyramid scam of Madeira Invest Club (MIC) and who gave 100,000 euros in cash to Alvise Pérez, stated this Thursday in an interview on the program conspiranoids from LaSexta that the MEP from Se Acabó la Fiesta (SALF) tried to condition his statement before the judge of the National Court in the open investigation for illegal financing.
Romillo involved Francisco Nicolás Gómez, known as ‘Little Nicolás’, in that operation, whom he pointed out as the person who, two days before his appointment with Justice, had sent his lawyer a proposal of what he had. testify “exactly” before the judge so that Alvise could escape possible charges for the crime of illegal financing.
“Two days before the declaration of the National Court, we receive this documentation through a person, we will say very close to Alvise and his lawyer (…), who proposes to us exactly what I have to declare before the Court. Judge Calama so that he can be free,” said Romillo. At a later point in the interview he identifies that person as ‘Little Nicolás’.
This proposal, according to Romillo’s version, sought to make it clear that the 100,000 euros he paid him during the electoral campaign were the result of a collaboration and that the objective was not to finance the campaign. Furthermore, Romillo stated during the interview that ‘Little Nicolás’ “works” for Se Acabó la Fiesta, the electoral group with which Alvise obtained more than 800,000 votes last June.
Sources familiar with this proposal indicate that the objective was for both to testify along the same lines, which, in their opinion, would lead to the filing of the proceedings for both of them. After breaking the scandal, Alvise admitted that he had collected 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 that the businessman contributed to the Prosecutor’s Office.
Romillo’s statement in the National Court shows that he did not follow the guidelines that Alvise would have set for him with ‘Little Nicolás’ as his emissary. Thus, he maintained before the judge that Alvise “did nothing,” but that he paid him that money in the expectation of “future favors” that would grant him a return and that were “to be defined.” He cited, among them, possible actions “in the Sentinel” [su empresa de intercambio de dinero y criptomonedas] or “commercial activities”.
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