The judge of the National Court Manuel García-Castellón has opened a cause to investigate the leader of Podemos Juan Carlos Monedero for crimes of money laundering and false documents for some transfers between his company, Resistance Box Motiva 2 Producciones SLand the mercantile VIU Europe and the Bank of Alba for the preparation of an advisory report on the financial spheres of the ALBA countries.
The magistrate, who saw how the Criminal Chamber of the High Court closed the case that had been opened for the alleged illegal financing of We can from the statements of the former Venezuelan deputy Hugo Carvajalwhen he tried to stop his extradition, justifies the decision adopted now in which, despite agreeing on the file, he indicated that if the court deemed it appropriate, he would deduce testimony to open another procedure for the investigation of economic crimes and falsehoodyes
In this sense, García-Castellón explains that from the analysis of the documentation provided by the UDEF there are suspicions that some of the documents provided by VIU Europa SLprior police request, “could present obvious inaccuracies between the date of creation of the file and the date that appears on the document itself”.
The police documents sent by the Economic and Fiscal Crime Unit indicated that the Banco del Alba paid 425,000 euros to the Motiva 2 Resistance Fundowned by Monedero, for the ‘Comparative study report on the financial spheres of the ALBA countries and analysis of the bases for legal-financial harmonization, implementation and timely advice on the project until December 31, 2014’.
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Once the documents have been analyzed, the magistrate concludes that the triangular movement of funds between Banco del Alba, Caja de Resistencia Motiva 2 Producciones SL and VIU Europa SL “presents characteristic features of operations linked to money laundering”, so it allows inferring the commission of economic crimes and falsehoods.
The order recalls the statements of a protected witness and Hugo Armando Carvajal in which he affirmed the use of the VIU Europa company to cover up irregular operations linked to Monedero.