Álvaro Romillo, the businessman investigated in the alleged pyramid scam of Madeira Invest Club (MIC), has acknowledged this Wednesday in the National Court that he paid 100,000 euros in cash in the middle of the campaign to MEP Alvise Pérez in the expectation that he would do him “favors.” futures”, sources familiar with the content of his statement confirm to elDiario.es. Romillo was summoned to appear in an open investigation for illegal financing after he confessed in a document presented to the Prosecutor’s Office to have paid that amount to the then candidate and now member of the European Parliament.
Within the framework of these investigations, which are being investigated as a separate piece in the procedure that analyzes the collapse of Romillo’s investment business, Alvise himself was also summoned to appear, but has not appeared. After admitting the complaint, Judge José Luis Calama offered the MEP, given his status as a certified person, the possibility of testifying voluntarily. Alvise has decided for the moment not to take advantage of that offer, although his lawyers have confirmed that they will offer other dates so that he can appear before the judge “next week or the following week,” according to the sources consulted.
As revealed by elDiario.es, the ultra agitator developed a relationship with Romillo, leader of a financial investment club and businessman in the cryptocurrency sector, to the point that the then aspiring MEP participated in an event to promote his platform. —now defunct— Madeira Investment Club.
The exchange of messages contributed to the case reveal that Alvise discussed his financing needs and Romillo ended up offering to collect 100,000 euros in hand, in cash and in black through Sentinel, a firm dedicated to facilitating money exchanges under a promise of total confidentiality. which managed 5,000 safe deposit boxes in an armored fortification in the heart of Madrid. Money that, according to Alvise, he needed to cover electoral expenses, compensation for lawsuits and that, above all, had to escape the control of the Court of Accounts.
Judge Calama: “Alvise is not a Lidl cashier”
After breaking the scandal, Alvise admitted that he had received that money but attributed the payment to work he did as a “self-employed person”, which he has not specified and which does not appear in the conversations with the businessman. Before the judge, Romillo has acknowledged that in reality Alvise “did not do anything”, but that he paid him that money waiting for “future favors” that would grant him a return and that were “to be defined”, but among which he has cited possible actions “in the Sentinel” or “commercial activities.”
The sources consulted confirm that, at this point, Judge Calama interrupted him to remind him that Alvise “was not a Lidl cashier” and that “he was going to be an MEP”, so he was going to have a certain “influence”. In fact, in the conversations provided there are different offers from Alvise to make lobby in Brussels for the cryptocurrency sector and even promote laws in Spain in favor of the MIC business when it is, as he estimates it will happen, “the key to the Government with Feijóo and Abascal.”
For months, a type of almost commercial relationship was forged between Alvise and Romillo in which the candidate sought money to finance himself and the businessman sought access to his community to advertise his businesses. “Your speech is absolutely identical to mine against the State, and that is why I want to support you,” Alvise came to tell him, who asked him if he knew people who might be interested in supporting his community, which he defined as “of freedom and successful struggle against corruption.”
The businessman replied that he knew “people who have money” and that they might be interested not so much in his political project, but in making contributions as a kind of “investment” or “collaboration” in exchange for him advertising his projects. business among his followers.
Alvise was “delighted” to do some “weekly promo” or “record very viral things with guests and influencers”, although the messages provided do not include the exact terms of that supposed collaboration, as Romillo confirmed this Wednesday before the judge Furthermore, when the businessman announced that he already had the money for him, Alvise told him in another message that these funds would allow him to launch “an urgent part of the campaign.”
Source: www.eldiario.es
