The Prosecutor’s Office asks the Supreme to investigate Alvise for illegal financing of his political party | Spain

The Prosecutor’s Office has asked the Supreme Court to investigate the MEP Luis Pérez, known as Alvise, Due to the alleged illegal financing of its electoral group, the party (Salf) is over. In a letter filed on Monday before the Criminal Chamber, the Prosecutor’s Office of the High Court informs that a case against Alvise was opened and is cited to declare as investigated when appreciating indications of an electoral crime and another of illegal financing of political parties. Being a Eurodiputa, the Supreme could request the voluntary statement of Alvise, but, if he refuses, he would have to ask the European Parliament to lift the immunity to act against him.

The Supreme Prosecutor’s Office He already examined SALF illegal financing suspicions A year ago, after businessman Luis Romillo, known in the networks as Luis Cryptospain, In December 2023, a complaint was submitted in which he had delivered 100,000 euros to Alvise during the campaign of the last elections to the European Parliament, after which he became an Eurodiputee after his electoral group I got more than 800,000 votes and three seats.

Romillo filed his complaint directly into the State Attorney General’s Office, which sent it to that of the Supreme Court given the condition of the aggravation of the MEP. But this resulted in the National Court because Judge José Luis Calama already had an open investigation against Romillo for an alleged pyramid scam committed through one of his companies, Madeira Invest Club (MIC), an investment office to which the National Securities Market Commission (CNMV) He described as « financial chiringuito. » That case did not initially splashed Alvise, but, after knowing Romillo’s complaint before the Prosecutor’s Office, two accusations presented extensions of complaints to request that the participation of the MEPs be investigated, and the judge decided to incorporate them into his cause, but at that time he considered “premature” to send them to the supreme.

But Calama Yes he chose to take that step months later, last Decemberconsidering that there were already “solid indications” of crime against Alvise, which forced him to derive the case to the high court so that the Criminal Chamber decides if it opens a cause against the Eurodiput. The Court Judge included in his brief the indications against the Romillo businessman so that the high court also investigates him with the SALF leader, appreciating an “intimate connection” between the actions of both. They are « the face and cross of the same coin, » Calama said.

In the letter presented now before the Supreme Court, the Prosecutor’s Office assumes that thesis and asks the Criminal Chamber that I also prosecute Romillo “by connection” with the facts that involve Alvise. The Public Ministry also claims that the High Court dictates orders to investigate the traffic of the alleged Wallets (virtual wallets) created by both to receive anonymous donations that will be out of public control; The supporters of the payments made “to sustain the electoral campaign”, as well as the delivery of Documentation and economic information of Salf, including the books of treasury, inventories and balances, income and expenses, as well as capital operations and the control report of the Court of Accounts. The Prosecutor’s Office also requests an examination of the Current Accounts of Alise and its electoral group during 2024.

Now it is the Criminal Chamber that has to decide if Alvise enchants. In the event that the step will appoint an instructor who will be the one to examine the request for proceedings by the Prosecutor’s Office. If, as is predictable, the MEP refuses to collaborate, the Supreme will have to ask the European Parliament (through the so -called supplication) to act against him.

In the reasoned exhibition sent to the Supreme Court, Judge Calama pointed out that the investigation he launched had evidence Wallet In order to receive anonymous donations aimed at sustaining the expenses of the electoral campaign of the European Parliament of 2024, the party is over. Romillo, according to the judge, opened the virtual purse and delivered the 100,000 euros to Alvise with the intention that he could subsequently act in different forums advertising both his banking platform Sentinel and the mercantile Madeira Invest Club. The first act of collaboration between the two took place on April 6 at the Zarzuela racecourse. That day, before 3,000 investors in Madeira, Alvise made defense of that financial beach that, he said, escaped the controls and allowed to obtain high profitability without paying for her. Alise took the event to publicize his European candidacy, « based on financial freedom, » Calama recalled.

European Parliament Fine

On the other hand, the European Parliament has sanctioned Alise Pérez on Monday for not declaring its previous income to assume its seat in Brussels, as stipulated by the rules of conduct that force every Euro -built at the beginning of its mandate. The sanction, announced by the president of the Eurocamara, Roberta Metsola, at the beginning of the plenary held this week in Strasbourg (France), is minimal from the economic point of view: the loss of the right to diets for stay expenses (350 euros per day to cover “accommodation, meals and related expenses of each day Two -day period, that is, a total of 700 euros. As explained by the Maltese, the sanction is final since the leader of the party (Salf) has not resorted to it.

For the sake of « transparency », every Eurodiputa is obliged to publicly declare the income he generated for his professional activity in the three years prior to his choice, as well as his belonging to other parliaments, for activities that he continues to exercise in parallel to his work in the Eurocamara and/or for his belonging to committees or business administration councils, among others. The statement published by Alise Pérez on the website of the European Parliament, presented on July 16, indicates as the only previous activity that of “analyst and consultant on their own” for which, he states, he does not receive any remuneration, but “only donations”, which does not quantify.

Failure to comply with this rule entails, according to the Code of Conduct of the European Legislative, the impossibility of being chosen “to exercise positions in Parliament or in the organs of the same, or be appointed speakers, nor to be part of official delegations”, usual tasks of a representative of the citizens in Europe.