The Madrid Hearing will judge from next week the commission agencies Luis Medina and Alberto Luceño for the alleged scam to the City of Madrid in the sale of sanitary material in the first weeks of the expansion of the Coronavirus in 2020. Both entrepreneurs took advantage of the worst of the pandemic to do business and charge six million in commissions extended from the Madrid public coffers.
The summary that collects the investigation includes an audio sent by Medina to Luceño in March 2020, a few days after having signed the millionaire contracts with the Consistory, in which the first reveals that the mayor has called him the mayor, José Luis Martínez Almeida , “Very affectionate and very grateful,” the Chain ser.
In the same Audio, Medina informs his partner that the mayor of Madrid has told him that he is at his disposal for whatever they want and that he has promised that he will sit with them when the pandemic passes.
The summary of the case reveals that this call occurred on March 26, four days before entrepreneurs entered their first commissions, of one million euros in the case of Medina, and when Luceño was still managing the orders, as can be of several messages incorporated into the cause. The relationship of the commission agents with the City Council continued intensely in the days after Almeida’s call and only concluded eight months later, in November 2020.
Six million in commissions
In his order of processing, Judge Adolfo Carretero explains that, “at the worst moment of the pandemic”, when there were “thousands of dead” because of the coronavirus, Luceño and Medina “urged a plan” to “obtain (… ) the greatest possible economic benefit ”at the expense of the City Council. A plan that consisted of the intermediation for the purchase of large amounts of sanitary material – mascales, gloves and tests – of a Malaya company.
According to the magistrate story, the two investigated would have charged “very high commissions” that were part of the price and that would have hidden the City Council “without the municipal managers realizing.” Something that happened, according to the judge, due to the “laxity in the controls in the hiring” and the “urgency” and the “instability” of the prices of the health material that were throughout the world as a consequence of the pandemic.
The car states that both inflated the price of contracts by 60% in the case of masks, in 81% in that of nitrile gloves and in 71% in that of the tests because of the “high” Fixed commissions. Fruit of these bites, Luceño charged 5.1 million dollars and Medina one million. In some cases this implied that between 60% and 80% of the money paid by Madrid through the municipal funeral home, they went to the pockets of these two entrepreneurs.
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