TWO businessmen have been acquitted of defrauding Madrid Metropolis Council by charging €6 million in fee for securing a PPE contract within the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Alberto Luceño and Luis Medina had been within the dock for a high-profile case heard by the Madrid Provincial Court docket.
It dominated the boys didn’t deceive the Madrid council in 2020 once they acted as intermediaries to safe a PPE deal.
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In a separate matter, Luceño was jailed for a complete of three months and eight months for defrauding tax authorities and for doc forgery.
He additionally has to pay a €3.5 million superb and compensate the Tax Company to the tune of over €1.35 million.
Over the PPE contract, the courtroom dominated that ‘it isn’t confirmed’ that Luceño and Medina stated they weren’t going cost any fee when getting provides to Madrid.
The bench stated nothing about waiving fee costs was mentioned between the boys and representatives of Madrid Metropolis Council.
It due to this fact thought-about that they didn’t conceal they had been going to get multi-million commissions and that the council ‘didn’t ask them about it both’.
The courtroom stated that Medina and Luceño weren’t ‘obliged to tell the client’ of the existence of a fee and its quantity.
“There isn’t a criminally related deception on the a part of the defendants, so long as they didn’t conceal one thing that they had been obliged to disclose to the purchaser,” the ruling states.
Initially of the pandemic, the Madrid Metropolis Council, purchased a million masks, 2.5 million pairs of gloves and 250,000 Covid assessments from a Malaysian firm known as Leno.
The contract was secured by Luceño and Medina for over €11.5 million.
In line with Decide Adolfo Carretero, answerable for investigating the case, the costs had been ‘inflated’ by 60% within the case of masks, 81% for the gloves and 71% for the assessments.
The 2 businessmen with the excessive costs managed to get the contract, which introduced ‘excessive commissions’ with Luceño pocketing €5 million Medina, €1 million.
The cash paid for luxurious vehicles and a yacht.
