Alvise Pérez's Supreme Court Show: He insults the press and praises far-right agitator Vito Quiles
The MEP admits to the judge that he received 100,000 euros but denies that they were for the European election campaign.
BarcelonaAlvise Pérez's new show. Now at the doors of the Supreme Court. After his third appearance before the high court, which is investigating him for alleged irregular financing of his party, the MEP has fired a broadside at politicians and the media. After a far-right agitator who claimed to be from Jungla Radio showed his support and criticized the mainstream media, Alvise Pérez defended him and said he had every right to ask questions like the rest of the "subsidized media."
A rebuke that didn't sit well with the journalists present, who asked him not to insult them and finally stood up in protest to deal with the agitator. "Go away, go away, subsidized media, parasites, criminals of the information mafia, go home," he told them. And he added: "Vito Quiles is no less a journalist than you, and neither is that journalist," he told a reporter after stating that he is "a free man" who "doesn't need vassal media."
The MEP put on this show after testifying before the Supreme Court, where he admitted to the judge that he received 100,000 euros in cash from a businessman for a "chat" but denied that he used it for the campaign in the last European elections. "There is nothing. When the case is filed, I ask you to make it known. That money was not for cocaine or for whores like Mr. Ábalos, nor was it to finance the party," he said before losing his temper in front of the press.
100 and 50 euro bills in a black briefcase
Alvise testified before the Supreme Court for less than an hour and answered questions from investigating judge Julián Sánchez Melgar and the defense. The MEP admitted before the judge that he received €100,000 for a "talk on financial freedom lasting approximately 30 minutes" and that he received it from two CrytoSpain employees at their Madrid facilities. He explained that they gave it to him in a black briefcase, in 50 and 100 euro bills, in ten bundles of ten thousand euros. He then took the money home and said he spent approximately half of it on personal and professional expenses, without providing further details, and that the other half remains at his disposal.
However, he stated that there was no illegal financing because he did not spend that money on his election campaign in the last European elections, which cost him just over €30,000. Therefore, he emphasized that the €100,000 is not recorded in the accounts of S'Acabat la Festa (SALF), which was previously a group and has been a political party for about two weeks. The High Court opened a criminal case against Alvise, finding evidence of alleged crimes of illegal party financing, fraud, misappropriation of funds, money laundering, and document falsification in the reasoned statement given by the National Court for allegedly receiving €100,000 in cash.
Businessman Álvaro Romillo, who revealed the payment supposedly for the party, was the one who filed a complaint against the MEP, to whom he gave €100,000 for his party on May 27, 2024, before the European elections. In his reasoned statement, National Court judge José Luis Calama considers that Romillo's conduct could amount to "active donation activity or illegal contributions." Romillo is also under investigation by the National Court for an alleged pyramid scheme through the investment platform Madeira Invest.
This is the third time Alvise has appeared before the Supreme Court, where he has two other open cases: one for alleged crimes of falsification and libel for spreading a fake PCR test of the former minister and president of the Generalitat, Salvador Illa, in 2021; and another for spreading the messages he sent to the Telegram network against the Valencia hate crimes prosecutor, Susana Gisbert.
