The judge admits the Anticorruption complaint against Luis Medina and another businessman for earning six million selling masks to the Madrid City Council

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The head of the Court of Instruction Number 47 of Madrid has admitted for processing this Thursday the complaint filed by the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office against businessmen

, accused of

for the purchase of sanitary material - masks, gloves and tests- that they would later distribute to the

at the beginning of the pandemic when these products were scarce in all public administrations.

According to legal sources, the instructor is already investigating whether both businessmen committed

.

In addition, the judge will summon Medina and Luceño to testify in the coming days, legal sources report.

On the other hand, the Madrid magistrate has given the Madrid City Council the opportunity to appear in criminal proceedings as the direct victim of the alleged fraud.

In its complaint, the Public Ministry explains that “a high percentage of the price offered” for the health products “corresponded to commissions that the defendants were going to receive” through the sale, estimated at up to

.

Specifically, 60% in the case of masks;

81%, in the gloves, and almost 71%, in the tests.

In fact, the price of the masks was "artificially" inflated according to Anti-Corruption to 148% above the real price of the product.

In the account of the facts investigated by the prosecutor, it is stated that Medina used

, José Luis Martínez-Almeida, to carry out the allegedly criminal operation.

Specifically, it would be a lawyer cousin of the first mayor, Carlos Martínez-Almeida, whom the Prosecutor's Office does not identify by name and surname in his complaint.

Yesterday, the municipal councilor maintained that “my relative did not know Luis Medina, a mutual friend contacted him.

He gives her an email and indicates that this is the official channel to do these things.

In addition, Almeida announced in his appearance that

in the investigation regarding the sale of one million masks, 2.5 million gloves and 250,000 rapid self-diagnosis tests.

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