• Anti-Corruption Courts accuse Luis Medina and another businessman of using a cousin of Almeida to earn six million selling masks

Obtain an exaggerated and unjustified economic benefit.

The letter from the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office is blunt about the six million euros that businessmen Luis Medina and Alberto Luceño obtained during the first state of alarm with the purchase of medical supplies that they later supplied to the Madrid City Council.

And that, for the most part, it was sold at a disproportionate price and was of a much lower quality than that mainly agreed between both parties.

It was one million euros that the son of Naty Abascal and the late Duke of Feria obtained for this work, being he who,

according to the Prosecutor's Office,

contacted the City Council through a cousin of the mayor, José Luis Martínez Almeida

.

An amount much lower than the one obtained by his partner, Alberto Luceño, who ended up rising to five million euros by presenting himself as "expert in importing products from the Asian market."

Those six million public money, obtained by intermediation so that the City Council could obtain a supposed quality sanitary material, when in our country hundreds of people were dying a day from coronavirus,

were used by the two commission agents to acquire luxury cars, yachts or real estate

.

Even to pay for a vacation in a hotel in Marbella.

Medina was the one who acquired the

Eagle 44 model yacht,

which he baptized with the name of Feria and which he later registered in the Registry of Pleasure Yachts of Gibraltar, putting it in the name of a company from that territory of which he was a part along with other people. .

The price: 325,515 euros.

But the great financial outlay came above all from his partner.

Alberto Luceño

bought three Rolex watches valued at more than 42,000 euros

.

Specifically, one of steel knight, worth 6,550 euros;

another of gold, for which he paid 26,000, and a third, which cost him 9,900.

To this would be added

a good list of high-end cars, a total of 12

, whose value exceeds two million euros.

Among them, a

Ferrari 812 Superfast

valued at 355,000 euros;

an

Aston Martin DBS Superleggera

, which amounts to €293,000;

a Lamborghini Huracan Evo Spider

, which he purchased for 299,999;

a

McLaren 720S

for which he paid 250,000, or an

Aston Martin DB11

for which he paid 160,000.

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Luis Medina, the son of Naty Abascal who is being investigated by Anti-Corruption

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Luis Medina, the son of Naty Abascal who is being investigated by Anti-Corruption

Thus until completing the list of 12 vehicles that also include

a KTM X BOW motorcycle (91,800 euros)

and to which should be added

a home in the Madrid town of Pozuelo de Alarcón

and that has three parking spaces and an attached storage room, registered in Property Registry No. 2. For it, the commission agent paid a total of 1,107,400 euros.

The commissions received also served to pay for the businessman's summer vacations.

Between August 10 and 16 of that year, Luceño enjoyed a week in a hotel in the Malaga city of Marbella,

the cradle of luxury on the Spanish south coast, for which he paid 60,000 euros.

All these expenses, in the case of Luceño, were made through a company of which he was the sole administrator.

This businessman was the one who, according to Anticorruption, led the negotiations with the General Coordinator of Budgets and Human Resources of the Madrid City Council for the acquisition of medical supplies:

one million masks, 2.5 million gloves and 250,000 rapid self-diagnosis tests.

For all this, the Consistory had paid just over 14.5 million euros, but

in the end that figure would remain at 10.9 million

since the difference had to be returned by the commission agents due to complaints from the municipal government about the poor quality of the products they received and thus prevent their entire scam from being discovered at that time.

Therefore, if the operation had been carried out with the first figures, according to the breakdown carried out by the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office in its letter,

the commissions that the two businessmen could have taken would exceed 10 million

euros while the material would only amount to to 4.5 million.

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