Collecting 100,000 euros in black: the last in the long list of Alvise’s judicial problems

The collection of 100,000 euros in cash from a businessman recognized by Luis ‘Alvise’ Pérez opens a new judicial front for the far-right MEP. The Prosecutor’s Office’s suspicions about the possible irregular financing of his candidacy in the last elections overlap with several criminal investigations for revealing secrets and two civil convictions for defaming politicians and journalists. The leader of Se Acabó La Fiesta faces, before the Supreme Court, the consequences of what he describes as a fight against the system and what the judges describe as lies and attacks with which he has amassed hundreds of thousands of followers in the last five years

Alvise’s judicial problems are a constant in the messages he sends daily to his 710,000 followers on his Telegram channel, although what he says does not necessarily always correspond to reality. He always attributes its origin to a persecution by the powers of the State against him for what he defines as his “fight” against “corruption” and the “mafia.” There have been several occasions on which he has stated that a case had been closed or has denied the existence of convictions that are already final.

The messages revealed this week by elDiario.es not only confirm that he collected cash from Álvaro Romillo, founder of a failed investment club based on cryptocurrencies, but that one of the main reasons why he claimed those funds (the other is the financing of the electoral campaign) has to do with a very real concern about the cases and sentences that are piling up against him. Among his “needs”, in addition to funds hidden from the Court of Auditors, Alvise mentioned: “I have to face certain fines for revealing secrets against the State and Data Protection.” Liquidity, he added, “allows me to face them.”

In that message, the then candidate brought up the refrain that he administers weekly to his followers: “Corrupts, pedophiles and exalted government officials.” The judicial cases opened or sentenced against him, both criminal and civil, are far from those considerations.

The most recent is pending to be sent to the Supreme Court by a court in Seville. There the Prosecutor’s Office has managed to reopen a criminal case against Alvise for posting on his channel a photo of one of the daughters of the President of the Government, also revealing in which country she is studying. The ultra agitator uploaded the photo and shortly after covered the young woman’s face, but by then the image had already begun to circulate and continues, to this day, to be published by certain accounts on the social network X.

That case is under criminal investigation. Just like the complaint that a judge from the Andalusian capital sent to the Supreme Court Prosecutor’s Office in which she accused the MEP of threats and coercion. The SALF leader addressed her directly in a message to his Telegram community, slipping that he would reveal that he had collected bribes if he did not rectify his arrest warrant – which was actually an investigation of the whereabouts – against Vito Quiles, one of his journalists. header. The Prosecutor’s Office has yet to decide whether to open a case against him.

The investigation opened against him for spreading a false PCR test by then-minister Salvador Illa has also been stuck in a Barcelona court for years. “I have won the trial against former Minister Salvador Illa, but the sentence is still pending because they prefer that the case expires and that there are no winners or losers,” he even said two years ago. The National Court also sent a case against him to the Plaza de Castilla courts in Madrid for revealing conversations between defendants in ‘Operation Kitchen’.

The criminal proceedings opened against him, for now without sentences and awaiting a decision on the 100,000 euros collected in cash, have nothing to do with his alleged fight against corruption. For years, the current MEP has claimed that judicial cases such as the ‘Koldo case’ have been opened thanks to him and on the same day he collected his minutes he promised to broadcast audios that would reveal the corruption of top-level judges and politicians. Those audios, as his followers on Telegram remind him daily, have not appeared yet.

Firm conviction by civil means

None of the criminal cases opened against him have resulted, so far, in a conviction. But the economic factor of their judicial problems comes, above all, from the cases processed through civil proceedings. Last June, the Supreme Court declared firm its obligation to compensate journalist Ana Pastor with 7,000 euros for carrying out harassment on her that she defines, before her parish, as a fight against corruption: publishing photos of private moments, such as in this case a dinner, implying that he is doing something illegal.

That sentence was declared final exactly one month after Alvise obtained 100,000 euros in cash from Romillo at his company headquarters in the Salamanca neighborhood of Madrid. And it adds to another pending confirmation by the Supreme Court: the 5,000 euros that must be paid to the former mayor of Madrid, Manuela Carmena, for falsely publishing that she had received a respirator at home during the worst of the first wave of the pandemic. of 2020. A material that was scarce then in hospitals where, every day, hundreds of people died.

In some other cases the courts have agreed with him. The Supreme Court itself, for example, endorsed speculation without real evidence about the management that Ana Pastor herself had of her company Newtral. The courts have yet to repeat the sentence that sentenced him to compensate former Minister José Luis Ábalos with 60,000 euros.

Civil cases against him can continue to be processed in a normal manner, but all criminal cases opened against him have to go, by obligation, to the Supreme Court Prosecutor’s Office or to the Criminal Chamber itself, which Manuel Marchena still presides over due to his condition. of MEP. One of the main objectives that his electoral campaign never hid: to be declared guilty before the high court. According to his version, to protect the fight against corruption that has not yet been carried out in a tangible way against “bribes of judges and prosecutors,” among other things. The last of his judicial problems is the investigation opened in the Supreme Court Prosecutor’s Office for collecting money from a crypto businessman before even reaching public office and to whom, as a deputy, he offered to change laws if he becomes key to the Government together with Feijóo and Abascal.