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Madrid – The Prosecutor’s Office has expressed its support for the Supreme Court (TS) to request the European Parliament to suspend the immunity of Luis ‘Alvise’ Pérez in order to investigate the MEP for the alleged illegal financing of his political party, Se Acabó La Fiesta (SALF), in the campaign for the European elections on June 9, 2024.
This is the position of the Public Ministry after the case instructor, Judge Julián Sánchez Melgar, requested the parties’ opinion on the advisability of submitting the corresponding request to direct the criminal proceedings against ‘Alvise‘.
In a document accessed by Europa Press, the prosecutor argues that “the granting of this request does not imply any reduction of the protection afforded to the MEP (…) in the performance of his parliamentary function, does not alter or disturb the functioning of the institution to which he belongs, and is respectful of the necessary guarantees for that function to be carried out freely without any interference.”
Furthermore, it understands that “the actions taken so far have more than confirmed the initial suspicions that motivated the opening of these criminal proceedings, increasing their incriminating power to elevate them to the category of rational beginnings of criminality.”
On this, it recalls that the investigated facts “consist of the now MEP having contacted (the businessman) Álvaro Romillo in order to help him create ‘wallets’ to receive anonymous donations made by third parties outside of any financial control by the authorities.”
The prosecutor states that Romillo “not only would have created three ‘wallets’ for the aforementioned purposes, but also would have provided him with the sum of 100,000 euros in cash for the same purpose of financing his electoral campaign for the European Parliament elections of 2024, to which Pérez was running as the leader of the electoral grouping SALF, hiding the existence of such donation from the authorities responsible for overseeing electoral expenses.”
It was the head of the Central Investigating Court Number 4, José Luis Calama, who requested the Supreme Court to investigate these facts after Romillo, alias ‘CryptoSapain’, revealed them in the context of the investigations being conducted in the National Court for an alleged pyramid scheme through the investment platform Madeira Invest Club (MIC), led by the businessman, who is being investigated both in the AN and in the TS.
Based on the reasoned exposition sent by Calama, the TS agreed to open a case and, pending the processing of said request, summoned ‘Alvise’ and Romillo to testify, the former voluntarily due to lacking, precisely, the permission of the Eurochamber. Both attended, and while the MEP denied using the 100,000 euros for campaign expenses, the businessman confirmed that he gave it to him for that purpose.
In line with Romillo, a recent report from the National Police concludes that ‘Alvise‘ received the 100,000 euros to “finance part of the electoral campaign,” simultaneously warning of an “evident” intent by the MEP to seek “opaque funds.”
It is worth noting that the Supreme Court has three open cases against ‘Alvise‘: the one related to the alleged illegal financing; one for the dissemination of a false PCR from the former Minister of Health and current Catalan president, Salvador Illa; and another for the alleged harassment on social media of the coordinating prosecutor for hate crimes, Susana Gisbert. (September 24)