The scandal of the scam in the sale of masks by the son of the late Duke of Feria, Luis Medina, and his partner Alberto Luceño has taken an unexpected turn. Until now, the judge, together with the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office, had pursued a scam and a possible money laundering because both achieved millionaire commissions for selling masks, tests and gloves to the Madrid City Council in a matter of days.
What had remained in the collective imagination is that they were two businessmen who had taken advantage of the situation to profit from public money at a time as delicate as the covid-9 pandemic. However, the story seems to be complicated and adopts novelistic overtones.
One of the points with which the head of the Court of Instruction number 47 of Madrid had more doubts has to do with the Malaysian businessman from whom all the material was bought. Luceño and Medina were mere intermediaries and therefore took five million euros in commissions. The instructor needed to talk to the Asian businessman, San Chin Choon, but he could never be questioned.
Until the prosecutor raised the hare. What if San Chin Choon is not San Chin Choon and who is writing the emails to the Court is really Luceño himself or another third person? The first suspicion is that Luceño himself explained in his statement in court that the Malay did not speak English well.
As well. It turns out that, according to the prosecutor, the person who has sent the emails to the court to refuse to be questioned by videoconference and requesting to testify in writing, not only does he not speak English well, but his grammatical errors lead to the deduction that the person has written has Spanish as a mother tongue.
First example: in one of the letters he uses the word “defenselessness” in English, a word that does not exist in that language but would be “defencelessness, so the word used is still a “gross adaptation of the Spanish term 'defenselessness'. '”, warned the prosecutor in a letter addressed to the judge and to which La Vanguardia has had access.
Second example: In a response from Luceño to written questions from the Court about whether he knows the two investigated, he answers: "To Mr. Alberto Luceño yes, to Mr. Medina no." The prosecutor is clear. “It is again a rough transcription of the answer that would be given in Spanish (To Mr. Alberto Luceño yes, to Mr. Medina no), when in English the direct object of person never has a preposition (that is, in both cases the word ' to'”.
Third example: San Chin Choon uses in his writing the word “soybean”, which in English does not exist either. “Besides the use of the term ‘soja’ (with j), it points back to the authorship of someone whose mother tongue is Spanish”.
The prosecutor has doubts as to whether it could be Luceño himself who is behind these words, in an attempt to try to deceive the Justice and hide that he artificially inflated prices by deceiving both the Madrid City Council and his own partner in this business: Luis Medina, whom he paid four times less than what he was entitled to.
The judge wants to know what is behind all this and that is why last week he ordered an entry and search of Luceño's home and office. The surprises only increased when the agents found a license plate of an agent of the National Intelligence Center (CNI) with the photograph of the businessman.
Could Luceño be a spy and at the same time a businessman accused of fraud? The researchers don't think so. In the first place, because the CNI personnel do not have a badge but rather an identification card and, above all, because more suspicious data appeared during the search. In his office there were six sheets of paper with various logos of the National Police, the Ministry of Defense, the CNI, the DSN. The one from the CNI is the one that appears cropped, according to the record prepared by the Justice Administration lawyer who was present at the police entrance.
Now the Police must analyze all the seized material, mainly the technological one, to analyze all the documentation that was required at the time and that it did not deliver. Will the emails and whatsapp be between Luceño and San Chin Choon?
