A judge issues an order to capture the author of a millionaire mask scam to the Madrid City Council | Spain

Judge Jorge Israel Bartolomé, responsible for the Court of Instruction 30 of Madrid, has issued an international search and capture order against Philippe Haim Solomon, indicated as the alleged author of another wasting scam of masks perpetrated in full pandemic against the Madrid City Council, headed by the popular José Luis Martínez-Almeida. According to the investigation, this entrepreneur was at the head of the company Sinclair and Wilde and, during the health crisis, allegedly cheated the session to supply 500,000 deficient tapping in exchange for 2.5 million euros, As the country revealed. The judge has also ordered that, when arrested, the suspect enters provisional prison.

This resolution of the judge, dated February 20 and the one that had access to the country, is known after the Provincial Court of Madrid acquitted in mid -March Luis Medina and Alberto Luceño, accused of committing another alleged scam against the local administration in the worst of the pandemic, when Six million euros were pocketed in commissions through the sale of health material in favor of a company called Leno SDN BHD, based in Malaysia. In his case, the court concluded that these two partners had not been proven to deceive the capital of the capital by not communicating that they were going to take a part of the money; or that they knew that the material supplied (masks, gloves and tests) did not fit the « quality » characteristics that had been hired.

For its part, investigation against Philippe Haim Solomon accumulates almost four years of investigations, but the alleged leader has not yet been questioned. The court gave the green light to the case in 2021 after receiving a report from the Municipal Police of the capital. That same year he closed to the impossibility of finding the businessman and returned to reopen in June Of 2022. Since then, all efforts to locate it have been unsuccessful. First he was sought in New York, for which he asked for help from the American city police – who went to the alleged headquarters of Sinclair’s offices. Without success. Then in the United Kingdom, for which a collaboration petition was previous to the British authorities. Also without success.

And now, with the support of the Prosecutor’s Office, the judge has decided to take another step and dictate a European arrest warrant against the employer, as well as communicate his opinion to Interpol so that this initiative also « can act as an international order of detention. » The magistrate adds that this order has a term of 10 years.

The researchers have identified the main suspect of this scam as Philippe Haim Solomon, born in 1955 and with a passport by Israel and Guinea Bissau. However, they also attribute another identity: Philippe Víctor Chaim Hababou, with French passport and address in London. « There is no record that the investigated has resided in Spain or can be located here, » says the judge in its resolution. Three years ago, the newspaper Infolibre He published a conversation with him after contacting him through the Internet, in which he assured that he would be willing to collaborate with Spanish justice: « I am not at all hidden, » he said then.

The summary points out that in a 2020 deck, a few days after the great confinement and millions of Spaniards locked in their homes, the Madrid City Council gave the green light to the purchase of half a million tapping to Sinclair and Wilde for 2.5 million euros. Only one day later, on March 24, the first fertilizer for 1.25 million was made. On April 14, the second payment for the same amount was issued. The Consistory received the material on April 23; But the director of Operations of the Municipal Emergency Plan warned on May 4 that, after analyzing the masks, « there are sufficient indications to assume that they do not conform to the technical requirements, or to the Spanish or European regulations. » It was tried thereafter to contact for months with Philippe Haim Solomon. But he vanished.

« The masks received would not meet the technical requirements of the Spanish, or European regulations, so they were unusable to provide with them the emergency services personnel of the Madrid City Council, not being finally distributed, » says magistrate Jorge Israel Bartolomé, which adds: “The merchandise was identified as a brand EKO, although there is no business address, or symbol that identifies the manufacturer. Internet searches, this brand linked to any company does not appear.

« Sinclair facilitated diverse documentation with which he would have tried to appear that the merchandise to be supplied would comply with current regulations, gathering the necessary specifications for use, » reproaches the investigating judge.