The tennis player Álex de Miñaur, an Australian national with a Spanish maternal family, is being investigated by the National Police for allegedly being one of the benefactors of the forged Covid passports by the recently dismantled plot, police sources have informed Europa Press.
De Miñaur, who turns 23 today, Thursday, is number 32 in the world in the ATP ranking, and is one of the great values of Australian tennis. Now it is being investigated whether he played the first ‘Grand Slam’ of the season played in his country with a false Covid passport.
The tennis player is one of the well-known names that appears in the second phase of the ‘Jenner’ operation against fraudulent registrations in the Covid-19 Vaccination Registry, which currently amount to 2,200, among which are actors such as Verónica Echegui and Álex García, television contestants such as Abraham García or moonlighters such as ‘El Troll’.
The operation has concluded with the arrest of four other people involved in the Spanish branch. Those arrested acted as intermediaries, capturing 600 people investigated for illegally obtaining the complete vaccination schedule, adding up to the moment a total of 2,200 fraudulent registrations in the National Vaccination Registry, resulting from the previous sum.
The police investigations that had begun last January with the first phase of operation ‘Jenner’ had led to the dismantling of the Spanish branch of this criminal organization with the arrest of seven people, as alleged perpetrators of the crimes of document fraud and against public health. Among them a nurse from a Madrid hospital who has denied the facts and has assured that the keys were stolen.
The agents then verified the fraudulent registration of 1,600 people in the National Vaccination Registryafter verifying the involvement of health personnel who introduced unvaccinated people who obtained a QR code to obtain the certificate of the complete guideline against Covid-19.
The player denies it
The Australian tennis player Alex de Miñaur has denied any involvement with the false covid passports and recalled that he has the complete vaccination schedule.
“I would like to write a quick message to rule out any kind of confusion and misinformation about the information about my vaccination certificate. I received the first dose of the vaccine last summer in London and the second at the La Paz hospital in Madrid,” explains the Australian player, who lives in Spain. “News has come out that the hospital is under investigation for distributing false certificates to some of its patients. I want to make it 100% clear that I have received my second dose and that I have an authentic vaccination certificate.”adds Alex De Minaur.
“Everyone, both me and my family, are vaccinated,” stresses the tennis player who emphasizes that he is not under any investigation. “I am not investigated in any way and my name appears because I was a patient at that hospital,” he concludes.
Alex De Miñaur, 32 in the ATP ranking, was listed as one of the athletes investigated related to the fraudulent covid passport plot, according to Telemadrid. The tennis player, as the information indicates, would be in the list of popular characters who allegedly paid to obtain false covid passports. According to the police investigation, those involved in the plot obtained Covid passports and false PCR tests to appear as vaccinated in the National Vaccination Registry.