The commissionist Luis Medina sent an audio message to his partner Alberto Luceño in which he claimed that he had had a conversation with the mayor of Madrid, Jose Luis Martínez Almeida, in which he had shown himself “affectionate and grateful.” In that same message, Medina told Luceño that the councilor had said that he was available to the commission agencies and entrusted them to be seen in person, according to a part of the published summary. Luceño and Medina feel next Tuesday on the bench, accused of cheating the Madrid City Council in the sale in the toughest time of the Covid pandemic, embolizing one, with which they acquired luxury goods.
The most media mask contracts until the so -called Koldo Case arose – a different cause for which former Minister José Luis Ábalos is investigated – arrives at the trial at the Provincial Court of Madrid four years after the investigations begin. In it, Luceño will face a request from the 15 -year prison prosecutor for alleged crimes of aggravated fraud, documentary falsehood and another aggravated against the Treasury; and Luis Medina, son of Del Duke of Fair and Naty Abascal, will face a nine -year prison request for the first two crimes.
The Public Ministry also a fine of 5.6 million euros and compensates to the Tax Agency with 1.3 million, while for Medina requests 450,000 euros of fine. He claims that both compensate together with the Consistory with 7.8 million, a corresponding amount to the commissions they won and the area paid by the City Council for the operation, among other concepts. The trial will begin four years after the Anti -Corruption Prosecutor began to investigate three contracts signed with the Consistory for 11.9 million dollars in November 2020 (about 11.6 million euros), to buy masks, gloves and rapid tests that Luceño got through a bad businessman, San Chin Choon.
Year and a half later, the prosecution filed a complaint before the Madrid courts, which highlighted how the material was acquired – one million masks, 250,000 fast tests and 2.5 million pairs of gloves – which in part did not have the quality required or was defective, and how the investigated hidden that six million euros would be pocketed in commissions. The case judge, Adolfo Carreter “In which only 47% was taken in commissions,” a normal percentage. ” And the aristocrat Luis Medina explained that when he knew that Luceño could bring Sanitary material from China, he spoke with a director of his former university, who gave him the contact of the mayor’s cousin, José Luis Martínez-Almeida.
This mayor’s relative gave him an email and, through that way, they ended up negotiating with Elena Collado, the Coordinator of Budgets and Human Resources of the Consistory. Medina confirmed that he charged a million euros compared to the more than five of Luceño, without being really deceived by his friend, against what he had declared a year earlier before the prosecutor. With the millions won, Luceño bought watches, luxury cars and a house, while Medina spent it on a sailboat called fair and bonds, according to the Prosecutor’s Office.
The trial, which will be broadcast live, will be held on 11, 12, 18, 19, 20, 25 and 26 February. In addition to the Public Ministry and the State Advocacy, in the trial they will accuse the City of Madrid, the Municipal Socialist Group of the Consistory and the PSOE, the Más Madrid Municipal Group and Podemos. The Madrid City Council asks for 11 years in prison and 600,000 euros of a fine, and for Medina, 9 years and 450,000 euros, in addition to compensation to the funeral services company of 7.9 million euros.
