The Prosecutor's Office has asked the Supreme Court to implement the necessary mechanisms so that Luis 'Alvise' Pérez loses his Eurodiputa immunity and can be tried for illegally financing his electoral candidacy. As Eldiario.es has been able to verify, the Public Ministry has joined the rest of the accusations and has asked Judge Julián Sánchez Melgar to issue a supplication to knock down the protection of the European Parliament, understanding that these months of investigation “have confirmed the initial suspicions” that they led to the opening of a cause for having charged 100,000 euros in cash from a cryptocurrency businessman during the last European election campaign.
The Supreme Court decided to open the cause for illegal financing against the leader of 'The party' last April. As Eldiario.es exclusively revealed, the then Agitator Ultra contacted Álvaro Romillo, businessman of the cryptocurrency sector nicknamed 'Cryptospain', to collaborate and finally obtain money for the European elections of 2024. One day before launching to the road and start his campaign, Alvise went to the offices of a Romillo company and collected 100,000 euros in cash.
Romillo, also charged in this case and investigated at the National Court for the bankruptcy of his failed investment club, has acknowledged that he delivered the money and Alise himself confessed to his voluntary judicial statement last July. According to his version, the money was not to finance the candidacy in which he got almost 800,000 votes and three seats in Brussels, but to “capitalize on a personal level” for the raffle of his salary that promised his followers and voters.
The Supreme Judge asked the parties if the time had come to take another step and the Prosecutor's Office has replied that the European Parliament must withdraw his immunity to, where appropriate, to sit on the bench in Madrid. The Public Ministry makes it clear that it has not been convinced with the explanations of Alvise and explains that the “initial suspicions” that led to open the case have become “rational indications of crime”, which increases its “incriminating power.”
In half a year of proceedings, the police have concluded in a report that Alvise received those 100,000 euros in cash to finance his campaign and not for other reasons given by the agitator, who has gone from stating that it was money charged by “works” as “autonomous” to say now that it was to deal with the raffle of his salary. The “underlying motivation” of this delivery of money, says the police, was “financing part of the electoral campaign.”
The Prosecutor's Office emphasizes that Alvise charged that cash “in order to finance its electoral campaign to the elections to the European Parliament of the year 2024”, while Romillo opened wallets (Digital purses where cryptocurrencies are) so that their followers could make cryptocurrency donations. He also did it “hiding the authorities in charge of supervising the electoral expenses the existence of such donation.” According to the accusations that weigh on him, 'the party ended' he never explained to the court of accounts where he got the money to finance the candidacy.
The prosecutor in charge of the case understands that Alvise can face several crimes of illegal financing by violating the regulations that regulate the money that political parties can receive, exposed to sentences of up to four years in jail in the most serious cases. The Public Ministry adds that the judge must issue the supplication so that the European Parliament removes its immunity and thus, the case may sit on the bench.
An “extra” of 100,000 euros in a “black suitcase”
In his voluntary appearance before the Supreme Court, the Eurodiputa and leader of 'The party was over' he acknowledged that he had charged that cash, but denied that he was destined to finance his campaign. After a first months in which he assured that the money was a payment “as an autonomous and without invoices” for services provided to Romillo and his companies, before the judge added that he needed the money to deal with his promise to overcome his monthly MEASUE salary.
Alvise explained that he collected money in a “black sport suitcase” and that the goal was to cover personal expenses such as “dinners with sources of information” or meetings with “related people.” “I have three different lives. As a Eurodiputa, and there I use the diets, when I am with the game and use the money of the party, and when I have to make personal trips, which I use my private money,” he said in the high court.
The judge asked Alvise several times if he had submitted his accounting to the Court of Accounts, in charge of supervising the candidacies and their finances, at which time the MEP discharged the responsibility in a company to which, he says, he hired to do that work. “The group of voters 'is over the party (Salf)' has not presented the electoral accounting,” says this body in its latest report.
The cause for illegal financing is one of the multiple accusations facing Luis 'Alvise' Pérez, most of them related to his activity as an ultra agitator in his social networks, where he accumulates hundreds of thousands of followers. He is investigated for disseminating a false PCR evidence of Salvador Illa and for inciting harassment against the Valencian prosecutor Susana Gisbert, while the judges have rejected a new imputation for spreading the faces of dozens of detainees in the Aste Nagusia of Bilbao in 2023.