The judge takes charge of the masks case to investigate commissions with “thousands of daily deaths”.

The judge, who is investigating the case of millionaires commissions caused by contracts for the purchase of sanitary material from the Madrid City Council, accepted the allegations in the instruction, PSOE and Podemos, and is waiting for Más Madrid and his spokeswoman Rita Maestre to contribute. Formal defect and may be personified as well. In his briefing, the judge justified the decision in the “general interest” of the case, because, he adds, he was investigating “the management of the above-mentioned funds in such a serious matter as the purchase of medical equipment in a crisis.” “The Covid-19 pandemic kills thousands of people every day, and find out if these funds have done any good for the benefit of citizens in general.”

The investigation started a few days ago after the 47th Court upheld the complaint of the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office. As exclusively revealed by elDiario.es, the public ministry has been investigating for more than a year the millionaire commission imposed by Luis Medina Abascal and Alberto Lucenio for the first time from China to Madrid in exchange for tests of masks, gloves and antibodies. Alarm weeks. Three contracts were signed with the Malaysian company and huge bonuses from which they charged six million in commission. The person who contacted them was also a cousin of the city mayor.

The judge has already decided to charge the two businessmen and testify on April 25 at the same time that their property was seized. With the money from the commission, according to an anti-corruption complaint, Medina bought a sailing boat named “Feria” after the Duke of his family, while Luceno bought, among other things, 12 cars and 3 expensive watches and a house in one. The most exclusive areas of the Madrid community. The prosecution suspect aimed to launder the loot after he arrived directly from Malaysia at their bank accounts in Madrid.

In the case, along with the public allegations made by the prosecution, there will be several popular charges: the PSOE and its municipal group in Consistory and Podemos. For the time being, the magistrate has rejected the same request from Más Madrid and its spokeswoman, Rita Maestri, for failing to properly file a general power of attorney for the lawsuits. The same magistrate offered shares to the Madrid City Council itself, and by this order he also takes over the administration under the leadership of Jose Luis Martinez-Almeida as a private defendant.

The instructor justifies the inclusion of these allegations in the facts under investigation. “The investigated crimes not only affect state funds, but also have a common interest and a huge public response,” the judge explained. In fact, he adds, managing money from the municipal line is investigating “a serious issue such as the purchase of medical equipment at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, which kills thousands every day, and whether these funds were used by certain individuals to the detriment of citizens.”

Funeral Home Contracts

The three contracts awarded to the Malaysian company Leno were signed in the last days of March 2020 and were managed through the Municipal Funeral Services Company. This made it possible to do so through an emergency procedure and that control and publicity were much lower than an open procedure through a public competition. According to prosecutors, in this context, Luis Medina Abascal – the son of the late Duke of Feria – contacted City Hall through the mayor’s cousin.

The complaint explains that both businessmen caused the increase in commission products, which sometimes exceeded 400%. The Court of Auditors has already reviewed these contracts, although it was not aware of the existence of commissions, but in this report it has already noted that the contracts of this company were the most expensive among Spanish municipalities in terms of FFP2 masks and antibodies. Tests.