Luis Medina has maintained his high standard of living thanks to his girlfriend but after acquittal he can recover his accounts and his yacht

Luis Medina He does not speak, he does not answer, he does not want to celebrate his acquittal with the press. Accompanied by his girlfriend, Clara CaruanaNaty Abascal’s youngest son abandoned the Provincial Court of Madrid on Wednesday without a gesture or a word that transmitted his joy for having freed himself from the nine years of prison that the Prosecutor’s Office asked for. He was accused of an alleged crime of fraud to the Madrid City Council, in addition to mercantile documentary falsehood, for the sale of masks and other sanitary material during the Covid-19 pandemic.

The son of the Duke of Fair has refused to talk to journalists, but has expressed his gratitude to the team of lawyers who began his defense more than four years ago, when Judge Adolfo Carretero opened the instruction of the case against him and his partner, Alberto Luceño. Both commission agens were pocketed, respectively, six million euros (Luceño) and one million euros (Medina) for supplying masks and other health materials. And not of good quality.

Medina’s first lawyer, Carlos Teixidor, always argued that his client had not committed any crimesince the commissions he perceived were paid by the Chinese businessman supplier of the material, and not by a public institution such as the Madrid town hall. According to his defense, it was private money, without a single fifty from the taxpayers.

After three years under the representation of Teixidor, Luis Medina hired the lawyer José Antonio Choclán, known for having defended figures such as Corinna Larsen, Imanol Arias, several involved in the Gürtel plot or the Christian footballer Ronaldo, among others. However, sources close to the case say that “The fundamental work of the defense has been carried out by Teixidor”whom Medina has privately thanked her workas we have learned.

The acquittal and judicial future of the case

The Prosecutor’s Office still has the possibility of resorting to the acquittal of Luis Medina, although judicial sources consulted by Informalia consider that It will be difficult for a resource to prosper. According to these same sources, The definitive acquittal is practically safewhich would not only confirm the innocence of the aristocrat, but also allow the unlocking of his financial situation.

Since the judicial process began, Medina’s bank account has been confiscatedwhich has left him without income during the last four and a half years. At this time, It has been his girlfriend who has sustained economically its high standard of living. Besides, The yacht that he acquired with the commission received —Valorated in 325,000 euros and baptized as a fair, in honor of his late father and his older brother, Rafael Medina— He was also seized.

During these years, Luis Medina and her mother, Naty Abascal, have maintained a low profile, away from Madrid’s social life. Part of this time have passed it in one of the properties of the exmodel in the Portuguese Algarve. Now, with acquittal, from the family environment they admit that “They are likely to appear again in the social circles that used to frequent”. The Yate Fair is also expected to be tied in the port of Gibraltar to avoid attracting attention, the sea surrounds again.

The reactions to the sentence

Luis Medina’s acquittal has generated reactions found. From the judicial field, experts consulted by Informalia They have pointed out that, although it has not been considered constitutive of a crime of fraud, The operation remains ethically questionable“.

On the political level, the party More Madridwhich acted as a popular accusation in the process, He has announced that he will decide whether the sentence once the legal foundations of the ruling have been analyzed. The lawyer of the formation, Nuria Zapico, regrets the acquittal of Medina for the main crimes, pointing out that the verdict has been disappointing: “When you exercise a popular accusation and consider that, in justice, some people must be convicted of certain crimes and finally they are acquitted, logically there is a bit of disappointment.”

Zapico also emphasizes that, with this sentence, the Madrid City Council will not be able to receive any compensation for the money that, in the opinion of more Madrid, “was allegedly cheated to citizens.”

Waiting for the decision of the Prosecutor’s Office and the possible appeal of the popular accusation, Luis Medina has achieved, for the moment, to come out airy of a process that has marked his life in recent years.