The judge of the ‘Masks Case’ has judged the businessmen Luis Medina and Alberto Luceño for an alleged fraud against the Madrid City Council in the purchase and sale of medical supplies in the COVID-19 pandemic, in March 2020.
aggravated fraud crimes
The magistrate has attributed to the businessmen the crimes of aggravated fraud and commercial falsehood. Adolfo Carretero, the head of the Investigating Court number 47 of Madrid, has issued an order on Monday on the preliminary proceedings with a procedure against Medina and Luceño, for the acquisition of medical supplies carried out in April 2020, with the that commissions of up to six million were pocketed of euros.
a year of research
The judge has terminated the investigation that would be a year old on April 7 and leaves Alberto Luceño sitting on the bench, who acted as an intermediary in the contracts signed with the city council, and his partner, Luis Medina, who used his contacts to reach the Madrid council. In addition, he encourages the prosecution to formulate their indictments.
There is no crime of money laundering
However, the judge has not seen evidence to judge them for the crime of money laundering for which They were investigated, according to the order, against which there is an appeal. The magistrate justifies that both hid from the City Council their “zero experience in sanitary material issues” and also, “that they had inflated the price of the contracts” for masks, gloves and tests by 60, 81 and 71% respectively, “because of the high commissions they took”.