Nati Abascal’s son seems serene and even happy when he leaves the Provincial Court, where he is judged to find out if he is guilty of aggravated scam and documentary falsehood. The prosecutor asks for Luis Medina Abascal 9 years and 10 months in prison and 450,000 euros. The youngest son of the late Duke of Fair appears from this week before the judge with what was his partner, Alberto Luceñofor whom the prosecution requests an even greater penalty: 15 years in jail.
At the time when the COVID-19 caused in 2020 hundreds of deaths a day without health being prepared to face the pandemic, Luceño and Medina offered the City Council of Madrid Mascales and other health products manufactured in China, which would provide them with an entrepreneur Chinese based in Malaysia.
The contact with the Consistory, chaired by José Luis Martínez-AlmeidaHe was a cousin of the mayor, friend of Luis Medina, who put them in touch with the person in charge of negotiating the terms. In the City Council they received the offer favorably. The masks were then a precious good: they were scarce and were expensive, but saved lives. It was Alberto Luceño who was in charge of the contracts with the City Council; Luis Medina’s mission ended with that valuable phone call that opened the door to a millionaire contract. As commissioner, Medina charged 1 million euros for that management; Luceño pocketed the remaining five million. Exorbitant amounts, inflated invoices and rigged contracts, according to the judge’s instruction Adolfo Carretero.
Despite this gloomy judicial panorama, Luis Medina left the Provincial Court smiling last Friday, whistling to the rhythm of the music he listened to the headphones. Two days before, he had been taking photos with his mobile to journalists who follow the case. The explanation to that surprising optimism may be due to the fact that the penalist has as a new defender Juan Antonio Choclána famous lawyer for having defended against the Treasury as well -known characters as Imanol Arias, Cristiano Ronaldo, José Mourinho, Cristina Cifuentes In the case of your master’s degree, The Pujol y Víctor Aldamaanother murky commissioner of the Koldo plot in his confrontation with Pedro Sánchez. Choclán managed to separate Judge Baltasar Garzón from his career as a magistrate by denouncing the listening to the defendants.
But in addition to having defended the late mayor of Valencia Rita BarberáFrancisco Correa and David Marjaliz Corinna Larsen In his judicial battle against the King Juan Carlos. However, the lover of King Emeritus has not been lucky so far in the lawsuits that faced the previous head of the State, especially those who undertook before the British justice.
Choclán always seems in favor of agreing with the Prosecutor’s Office in order to reduce the prison sentence or the economic convictions of his clients. In the case of 9 years in jail for Luis Medina and the fine of 450,000 euros, he will have to negotiate so that his client is sentenced to less than two years in jail and thus avoid his entry into prison. As for the fine, the matter is even more delicate for the aristocrat, who is without work and with his seized assets.
