The magistrate asks the Prosecutor’s Office and the parties to propose new measures for “the assurance of civil responsibilities”
Or Luis Medina has emptied all his accounts in Spain in recent days before the seizure order issued by Judge Adolfo Carretero arrived. Or he has his assets hidden in opaque funds in the name of others or abroad. Or he is solemnly poor. The head of the Court of Instruction 47 of Madrid, in a letter sent to the parties involved in this process against the brother of the Duke of Feria, asks Anticorruption and the accusations to propose new measures for “the assurance of civil responsibilities” because the aristocrat only has 247.26 euros in his accounts. An amount that, not even remotely, would cover a hypothetical sentence for the hit of the sale of medical supplies to the Madrid City Council for which he is accused of aggravated fraud, money laundering and documentary fraud.
Last Friday, the magistrate, after accepting the Anticorruption complaint, ordered the preventive seizure of all the assets and funds of Luis Medina and his friend Alberto Luceño in the case in which the alleged collection of up to 5 million is investigated. euros in commissions for the purchase of medical supplies for the city of Madrid during the first wave of the pandemic in the spring of 2020.
According to Anticorruption, the transfers received by Luis Medina as a commission agent in that ball would be one dollar per mask (one million dollars in total, or about 915,000 euros). According to the prosecution’s complaint, Medina invested that money, among other things, in the purchase of an Eagle 44 sailboat, called “Feria” and for which he paid 325,515 euros, and in two bank bonds worth 400,000 euros. But the judge reveals that, as he has been informed, those bonds are no longer in his possession and that the balance of all accounts in Spain -all at Deutsche Bank- is only 247 euros.
Lift?
The magistrate has given a period of five days to the accusations, among which the Madrid City Council is personified as affected, so that they can propose new embargoes. The instructor’s hurry, according to judicial sources, is due to the risk that Medina continues to overshadow assets and accounts to avoid the embargo.
In the event that the magistrate confirms that the aristocrat, who will testify as a defendant on May 25 along with Luceño, has intentionally emptied his accounts in recent days to avoid judicial requisition, Luis Medina could face a new crime, the of “execution frustration”.
“Gravity”
Last Tuesday, in the car in which the appearance of the consistory led by José Luis Martínez-Almeida was admitted, Judge Carretero already insisted on the “seriousness” of the events investigated as they took place “at the height of the pandemic” when there were “thousands of daily deaths”.
According to the Anticorruption complaint, Medina and his partner intervened in the signing of three contracts between the Madrid Funeral Services and Cemeteries Company -as buyer- and the Malaysian company EEE -as seller to acquire medical supplies-.
The Leno company, used by Medina and his partner, ultimately won the three largest contracts of the entire pandemic signed by Marid’s funeral home: 6.23 million euros for the purchase of masks, 4.62 million for gloves. and 3.93 million for rapid tests.
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