The head of the Court of Instruction number 47 of Madrid, Adolfo Carretero, wants to give rhythm to the case in which he investigates whether the City Council was scammed with the purchase of masks, gloves and tests through Alberto Luceno and louis medina. Barely three days after taking their statements, he has summoned as a witness Maria Diaz de la Cebosathe person who put the son of the Duke of Feria in contact with the lawyer Carlos Martinez-Almeidacousin of the mayor of Madrid, to carry out the business of Covid material contracts with the Madrid City Council.
Legal sources have confirmed to EL PERIÓDICO DE CATALUNYA, a medium that belongs to the same editorial group as this newspaper, that De la Cebosa, president of the College for International Studies (CIS University) in Madrid, a campus located in the heart of the exclusive Salamanca district, will appear as a witness on May 9, the same day that Elena Collado, general coordinator of Budgets of the Madrid City Council, is summoned, who was the person whose contact provided the mayor’s cousin.
Three days
Regarding the citation of Carlos Martínez-Almeida, requested by Can and the PSOE as accused after listening to the accused Luceno and Medina, and as a witness for Mas Madridthe magistrate has chosen to give the parties three days to ask them in what condition they should appear in court, despite the fact that it is foreseeable that they will reiterate in the condition that they have practically just requested.
To questions from judge Medina explained that he asked María Díaz de la Cebosa how she could contact the mayor’s cousin and that it was she who facilitated the contact, through which they obtained Collado’s. Later, only Luceño and the City Council’s budget coordinator spoke. Before Judge Carretero, this businessman announced that the director of the Malaysian company in which they acquired the sanitary material that they sold to the City Council, San Chin Choon, is willing to testify, despite the fact that he had refused to do so through the rogatory commission issued by the prosecution.
no more inquiries
Anticorruption, which filed a complaint against the two businessmen when it considered the investigations completed, did not understand it necessary to take a statement as accused of the mayor’s cousin, which he has used to deny the existence of any suspicion of the existence of some type of influence peddling .
In this line, the Special Prosecutor’s Office has rejected the request of Más Madrid to request new proceedings, among which was to take a statement as defendants in the case of manager of the Municipal Funeral Services Company, Fernándo Sánchez González, for the alleged commission of a crime of forgery in a public document related to the contracts of the investigated businessmen.
However, the accusation brought by the Madrid City Council has asked the judge to “free officio the Spanish Committee of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC Spain)” so that it “pronounces whether the documents in the case with the seal of said organization correspond” to the models of documents that it endorses, given the information that denies it and maintains that they have an old logo. These are the documents with which Luceño and Medina justified before their banks the exorbitant income they received from Malaysia.