The Court of Instruction number 47 of Madrid has received an email signed by someone who claims to be San Chin Choon, the Malaysian businessman who sold the sanitary material to the Madrid City Council through the commission agents Luis Medina and Alberto Luceño, in which he assures that Neither of the two Spaniards investigated adulterated the price of the masks, gloves and tests. In the email, to which elDiario.es has had access, the Malaysian businessman recognizes Medina and Luceño as exclusive agents to market his products and adds that the price of the material would have been the same without their intervention, but that he needed them to close the business with the Madrid City Council.
The email denies the Malaysian authorities, who had formally reported San Chin Choon’s refusal to cooperate and his right to do so, under Malaysian law. The signatory of the email, who offers his passport number to identify himself, affirms that Alberto Luceño informed him of the investigation against him in Spain and that he lent himself from the beginning to collaborate, answering the 19 questions that the prosecutor sent by rogatory commission Spanish. When Luceño has contacted him again informing him that Malaysia claimed that he had not collaborated, San Chin Choon has decided, he says, to take the initiative to send the answers that he had already offered, according to him, to the authorities of his country so that they were sent to Spain.
Anti-Corruption sent Malaysia, through the Ministry of Justice, 19 questions about the case. Number 10 asked San Chin Choon what the price of the masks would have been for the Madrid City Council “once the commissions” of Luceño and Medina had been deducted. “The price of the products would have been the same. You do not sell at a higher price because you have agents. Without them there would have been no operation,” the person who identifies himself as San Chin Choon now replies.
Medina and Luceño are charged with a crime of fraud, money laundering, forgery of documents and concealment of assets. The statements of the person who identifies himself as San Chin Choon would question the main of these crimes, fraud, by contradicting the accusation of the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office and the popular accusations, provisionally assumed by the judge, that the two Spaniards adulterated the price of the products. Prosecutor Luis Rodríguez Sol went so far as to say in his complaint that the commission agents set the price with their backs to the Malaysian businessman. Regarding the masks, Rodríguez Sol wrote: “Despite being of good quality, the seller would have been willing to sell for a price much lower than what was paid; specifically, 40% of what the City Council paid for them”.
The Madrid City Council paid around 16 million euros for San Chin Choon’s material and then he gave 6 million euros in commissions to Luceño and Medina. The Prosecutor’s Office calculates that defective material arrived in Madrid for at least four million euros.
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