The son of the Duke of Feria, Luis Medinabegan to take money out of Spain that he had obtained as a commission for the masks for the Madrid City Council just two days later to receive the payment in dollars on the last day of March 2020 for a total of 912,800, 97 euros of the Malaysian company with which he and his partner Alberto Luceño carried out the operation.
This follows from a report issued by the Tax agency in February 2021, which is part of the summary of the case instructed by Judge Adolfo Carretero and to which he has had access The Newspaper of Spain, in which these charges appear as the only foreign exchange operations carried out that year by the aristocrat in your bank accounts.
Thus, they consist two payments dated March 31, 2020 for the amount of 684,627.62 euros and 228,173.35 euros with the concept ‘MASK’ received in one of the Deutsche Bank accounts that Medina had in Spain.
The money came from the Malayan Banking Berhad (MayBlank). Just two days later, the April 1, the first of three transfers was made for just over 93,700 euros to another account in the same bank in Medina, Netherlands, which was followed by two more payments in June and August of that year for a similar amount.
Specifically, the Treasury reflects in its report a second departure of 93,700 euros to the Dutch account of Deutsche Bank on June 22, 2020 and a third for 93,682.50 eurosfollowing the frequency of two months, on August 4 of that year.
It so happens that the complaint that led to the filing of the complaint that has allowed the investigation of this matter came from the Commission for the Prevention of Money Laundering and Monetary Offenses (Sepblac), dependent on the Ministry of Economic Affairs, after the alert made by banks in which the succulent commissions from Malaysia were entered. The investigation by prosecutor Luis Rodríguez Sol began in November 2020.
Uplift of goods?
medina exposes himself to being investigated for a crime of concealment of assets in the event that it is shown that he has emptied his accounts and made the loot of the ‘pitch’ disappear for which he charged a million dollars in commissions on account of covid material contracts with the Madrid City Council. At the moment he is indicted for aggravated fraud, false documents and Whitening of capitals.
Only 247.26 euros have been found in the Deutsche Bank account in which the commission was deposited, and There is also no trace of the two bonds for a total amount of 400,000 euros that he would have acquired with the commission obtained in the operation.
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Medina obtained as a commission in obtaining these contracts (through a letter accrediting him as the exclusive agent of the manufacturing company for the supply and procurement of health products) a total of 1,000,000 dollars (916,000 euros) from Malaysia and transferred them to a personal account, which has already been emptied as verified by the instructor in the case.
With this money, according to the complaint, he acquired an Eagle 44 model yacht, called ‘Feria’, which he registered in the name of a Gibraltarian company whose ownership he shares with his brother; in addition to bank bonds.