Luis Medina and Alberto Luceno, two businessmen who owed a € 6 million commission for selling defective material to the Madrid City Council, thanks to contacts in the constellation, transferred the money collected from Malaysia until their accounts were emptied in the following months. By the time the prosecution launched the investigation, there were barely a few euros left in their accounts. The judge has already said that at this time nothing was taken from him from Medina.
Medina and Luceno began collecting this commission at the end of March, after entering the City Council through the cousin of José Luis Martინnez-Almeida and establishing close contact with Elena Colado, a senior official in charge of centralizing the procurement of materials. . In the midst of these conversations Almeida managed to contact Medina. He and his partner received two transfers on March 31, about which Luceno informed Medina’s fortune teller “A la saca”.
That day Luis Medina, son of Nati Abaskal and Duke of Feria, received two transfers from one of the accounts in Malaysia with the concept of “mask”. After a history of failure at the expense of the family’s money, the youngest of the Medes has done the work of his life: he received $ 999,882.18 for Lucienio’s Madrid City Council.
Medina immediately starts transferring this amount to its other account, already in euros, before leaving the first one at almost zero, according to the account of the tax agency, to which elDiario.es had access. Just two days after receiving the commission from the other, he makes the first payment on the Leonardo Eagle 44 yacht, which is a transfer of 93,700 euros to the Dutch-based company Leonardo Yachts. In the coming months there will be two more transfers for the same amount and another to complete the € 325,514 44,000 spent on the ship, which he invested on behalf of the Gibraltarian company.
On the same day, April 2, Medina gives a deposit of € 11,000 to Ivory Escapes, a luxury rental company in Madrid. In the following months he transferred the property rent to the same account, for which he paid 2,650 euros a month. He makes several transfers – two from 10,000 euros to his lawyer, including two from 5,000 euros, and the other 10,000 euros from the concept of “aid loans” or simply “aid” to Angel Sanchez Lacal.
Sanchez Lacal is an entrepreneur in several companies. One of them is SFS Overseas Trade Corporation, with which the Medina brothers managed to import yachts from the Netherlands. His other company is Horticalia, which sells fertilizers. Luis Medina made two more transfers to the company, totaling 25,000 euros, and told the prosecutor that it was a prepayment for “access to supplies”.
From May 20 to 29, two business bonds will be purchased, in which he spent a commission of 400,000 euros. Now Medina has told the judge who was going to seize this property that she no longer has it. He did not say what he did with this 400,000 euros.
According to a report on the movements provided by Deutsche Bank, Medina gradually got rid of these bonds. Some of them have been on sale since April 2021, when anti-corruption officials were called in to testify.
The rest of the funds were spent quickly. Medina transferred 60,000 euros to one of its companies and 32,128 default management companies for the debt of Banco Santander. He used his credit card to make € 56,524 worth of purchases, withdraw € 15,000 from ATMs and make € 17,000 in transfers through Bizum. They were also deprived of 11,400 euros for non-payment.
Medina was spending at such a pace that she had to sell her financial assets in order to maintain liquidity. He returned “for the full amount of money”, according to the tax agency, until on September 21, 2020, shortly before the start of the anti-corruption investigation, the negative balance was 8700 euros.
The same operation is happening in the case of his partner, Alberto Lucienio, although in his case he paid much more for the increase in the cost of masks, gloves and tests. According to the report of the tax agency, he paid a total of 4,623,350 euros from Malaysia and transferred 4,621,924 euros. The tax agency found only 6,200 euros in his personal account.
Much of that money went to the Egocars dealer, where Lucieno bought all sorts of expensive cars. In total, he transferred € 1,037,300 to them to buy cars that included a Ferrari or several Aston Martins. “There were cars worth 700,000 euros and we got them for 399,000 so that we could sell them again in a little while. “Three of the purchased cars have already been sold and we have made money by selling them,” he told the prosecutor in a statement.
Luceno also spent € 42,450 on various Rolexes and paid € 60,000 at the Marbella Hotel, where he went with his family. 66,000 euros were credited to the account with his wife; 10,000 went to one of his sons, and 12,100 to another.
But the main amount, 3.3 million euros, Luceno transferred to the account of the company, which he created shortly after the mask business, and which he called Takamaka. From this account Luceno spent nearly € 200,000 on many purchases such as travel and luxury items. He continued to buy expensive cars from Egocars now for 600,000 euros, paid 125,000 euros to a company in the Netherlands – the chicken supplier, the business in which he is, he told the prosecutor – and made various transfers.
In addition, Luceno bought the house from his company account, which he paid with two checks worth a total of almost one million euros. This is an apartment in the city of Pozuelo de Alarcón, Madrid.
At one point during the interrogation, when he tells the prosecutor in detail about these movements, the prosecutor warns him that if he finds out that he has disposed of the money to avoid the embargo, he will be accused of concealing the property. “But I transferred the money to Takamaka,” replies Lucienio; The prosecutor warns him that it would also be a crime to dispose of property through his companies.
Source: El Diario
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