The Eurodiputa Luis ‘Alise’ Pérez has recognized in the Supreme Court that he received 100,000 euros in cash from a businessman from the cryptocurrency sector, but has denied that he would use that money to finance his campaign of the latest European elections. As explained before the judge, he has used half of that money for “personal and professional” expenses but without having invested it in the electoral campaign. A money that came in sores of 10,000 euros each in a black briefcase. Álvaro Romillo, the businessman who paid him, has denied his words, stating that he gave him the money for “any other service related to his future position of power.”
As Eldiario.es revealed, the Eurodiputa and businessman Álvaro Romillo, nicknamed as ‘Cryptospain’ and at the head of the bankrupt Madeira Invest Club, spoke for months seeking to collaborate in public events and in the face of the irruption of ‘The party’ in the European Parliament. Conversations in which Alvise came to legislate in favor of cryptocurrencies if it was “key of government” between PP and Vox in the future. A few days before the European elections of 2024 Alvise went to one of the Romillo companies to collect 100,000 euros in cash.
To date, the SALF leader has recognized that he took that money without giving explanations to the Treasury and ensuring that he was “as a freelancer” and “without an invoice.” Their versions have been varying until it settled in that it was the payment for appearing in an event organized by the failed Romillo Investment Club in the Zarzuela Racecourse, something that the businessman himself denies.
Before the judge, he said textually that “there was no illegal financing” of his candidacy. Sources of the case explain to eldiario.es that he has assured that he paid his campaign expenses “before” that Romillo sent the money in bills of bills in a briefcase. His campaign, he said, was based on “a Mercedes van, a large pilage megaphone and shirts and ballots” and did not spend more than 30,000 euros.
Álvaro Romillo, in his statement and as he explained to the departure, has appeared in the opposite direction: he asked him for money to finance his campaign and that’s why he gave it to him. “In all conversations they are for the use of the campaign, in all conversations they are for the use of the campaign, it is not any event or any payment,” he said. “He wanted to put a testaferro,” he added. The consideration, he explained, was to “promote the Sentinel” but since “he did not make it” changed to “any other service related to his future position of power, was not defined.” “We don’t care about politics, we wanted to make money,” he had settled.
Blame a company not to present their accounts
“Has your accounts submitted to the Court of Accounts?” Magistrate Julián Sánchez-Melgar has asked directly. Alvise Pérez’s response has been to point to the company he states that he hired so that “the money and outputs of money were computed and presented to the Court of Accounts.” He says he called that company as soon as he read that he was accused of not presenting the accounts before this agency and that he is “remedied” those problems.
The last report of the Court of Accounts on European elections is clear about it: “The group of voters” is over the party “(Salf) has not presented the electoral accounting.” He even proposes the “non -award of the electoral subsidies that correspond to the group of voters by not having presented the electoral accounting.”
A National Police report recently contributed to the case has opened new unknowns about the financing of the first steps of ‘The party’ after revealing that a real estate investor, Mariano Schoendorff, sent a total of more than 10,000 euros to the party. On the one hand, taking charge with one of its companies with an invoice of 3,500 euros of the training and, on the other, making payments that among all added 7,000 euros more.
Source: www.eldiario.es
