The Prosecutor’s Office of the Supreme Court has decided to leave the investigation into MEP Luis ‘Alvise’ Pérez and his cash collection of 100,000 euros from a cryptocurrency businessman in the hands of the National Court. The Public Ministry understands that this charge is already part of the investigation opened in a court of the Audiencia that analyzes the collapse of Álvaro Romillo’s investment business and, in practice, leaves in the hands of this court the decision of whether or not to report to the Supreme Court to the MEP and leader of SALF for alleged illegal financing.
The Prosecutor’s Office limits itself to pointing out that, according to the Criminal Procedure Law, it is obliged to stop investigating as soon as it becomes aware that there is already a judicial procedure on the same facts, in this case in the National Court.
In recent weeks, the Supreme Court Prosecutor’s Office has had to study several possible criminal cases against today’s MEP Luis ‘Alvise’ Pérez. One of them is the complaint of a judge from Seville, who accuses the ultra agitator of making threats against her on his Telegram channel to demand that the agitator Vito Quiles not be arrested. The second comes after elDiario.es revealed that Alvise collected 100,000 euros in cash from a businessman in the cryptocurrency sector in the middle of the campaign in the last European elections, in which he obtained more than 800,000 votes.
The current deputy came into contact with Álvaro Romillo, founder of the failed Madeira investment club, at the end of March of this year, when he had already announced his candidacy. Conversations that have been examined by this newspaper in which both talk about cryptocurrencies, the possibility of collaborating and even Alvise’s participation in a massive company event at the Madrid Hippodrome.
In these messages, audios and calls, Alvise commits to legislating in favor of the cryptocurrency sector when he manages to access some piece of power, focusing above all on his possible role in national politics together with PP and Vox. And they reflect how on May 27, one day before starting his electoral campaign, Alvise went in person to the offices of Sentinel, Romillo’s company, to collect the cash. “Thank you 100,000,” said today’s MEP to confirm the collection. Subsequently, Alvise has acknowledged that he collected the money but attributed the payment to work he did as a “self-employed person”, which he has not fully specified and which does not appear in the conversations with the businessman.
In those conversations, Alvise himself stated that he was going to use these opaque funds to finance the most “urgent” part of an electoral campaign that started 24 hours later and that took him through 16 Spanish cities until culminating with a massive event in the Plaza de Columbus of Madrid. The case ended up in the hands of the Prosecutor’s Office after Romillo himself wrote to this body, both to explain his “relationship” with Alvise and to communicate that he was making himself available to the courts after his Madeira Investment Club – against which the CNMV had already warned – would run out of funds.
In recent weeks the National Court has received several complaints from people affected by the collapse of Romillo’s business, with some of these complaints also mentioning as related criminal matters the collection of 100,000 euros from Alvise. This leads the Prosecutor’s Office of the Supreme Court to leave the case in the hands of the central court number four of the Court, which due to the capacity of the MEP will have to decide, in any case, whether to refer the case to the high court.
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