The Supreme Court has decided to address the European Parliament to suspend the immunity of Luis 'Alvise' Pérez and to continue investigating him for illegally financing his candidacy in the last European elections. Judge Julián Sánchez Melgar understands that the European Chamber must give the go-ahead to move forward with the case by considering his version of the events “not very credible”: that the 100,000 euros that the businessman Álvaro Romillo paid him in cash was not to finance his candidacy but as consideration for participating in an event on his investment platform. The judge points to two crimes: illegal financing and electoral crime.
This is one of the four cases that the Supreme Court keeps open against the leader of 'Se Acabó La Fiesta', who a few days ago launched his candidacy for the next general elections in a palace in Vistalegre that he was unable to fill, proposing measures such as the macro-prisons in El Salvador. He is also investigated for harassing a prosecutor from Valencia, for promoting harassment of his own MEPs and for spreading a false PCR test of Salvador Illa during the pandemic.
In this case, as elDiario.es revealed, the far-right politician and agitator is being investigated for financing his candidacy in the last European elections with the 100,000 euros that Álvaro Romillo, a cryptocurrency businessman and also accused of the collapse of his investment club, gave him in Madrid a few hours before Alvise's electoral campaign began. Romillo himself acknowledged this in writing and confirmed it in his statement as an investigator.
The judge announces that he will request the request and reveals that Alvise's explanations about the origin and destination of that money are not credible. Before the judge, he stated that those 100,000 euros in cash were a payment from Romillo for having participated in an event of his investment platform at the La Zarzuela Racecourse. Something “obviously plausible,” the judge now says after listening to both his explanations and those of Romillo.
This money, adds the judge, “is not documented, remains opaque, and is used for electoral purposes, which represents a way of proceeding that unbalances the proper functioning of the elections.” He acted trying to take advantage of future influences “by helping Alvise obtain the seat, breaking” the protected legal right that is electoral cleanliness and transparency.