The Police have not yet found evidence of the millionaire heritage that the television producer José Luis Moreno, accused in Operation Titella, would hide in various tax havens. So far there is no trace of the luxury mansions abroad, nor their own offices in Los Angeles and London, nor the hotel in the Maldives.
The reports sent by the Police to the judge of the National Court Ismael Moreno indicate that the ventriloquist diverted with false invoices to the company Youmore SL, controlled by his Czech figurehead Martin Czehmester, at least 12 of the 35 million euros contributed by the Argentine investor Alexander Roemmers to produce the series Glow & Darkness (The brightness and the darkness).
From the wiretaps ordered by the judge, the investigators interpret that Moreno is hiding between 400 and 900 million euros abroad and a hotel is being built in the Maldives.
In a conversation recorded on February 25, a José Luis Moreno besieged by debt seems to allude to his plans to leave Spain, thanks to the fortune that he would have hidden from the Tax Agency: “I have already lived a life and abroad I am very organized, I have to go out of Spain urgently, all outside expenses are paid outside. It is as if I had another life and it is the one I want, but definitely, because I don’t have to contaminate myself with anything here, because I also have everything very organized and highly regulated ”.
Fragment of the report sent by the Police to the judge of the National Court Ismael Serrano.
The investigation of the case has confirmed that José Luis Moreno gave 400,000 euros to his front man, the porn actor Martin Czehmester, to buy a house in his native country, the Czech Republic.
In a telephone conversation tapped on December 22, Czehmester He is anguished because he does not know how he is going to pay the remaining 300,000 euros of the price agreed for the purchase of the house and he is afraid of losing the money he has already anticipated.
And then he states in reference to José Luis Moreno: “The boss always says that he has so much money abroad … and so much and so much … he says ‘I can’t take this from abroad until February because there are limits’ (…) If I have the money outside, I do whatever it takes to get it out, if I have 500 million outside, even if I had to give someone 200 million, but let them fix it for me. “
Months later, on April 7, in another recorded phone call, the consultant and accountant of the producer Beatriz Sánchez commented that José Luis Moreno “has a lot of money abroad in Hong Kong, although now it is very difficult to get money into Spain “.
Martin Czehmester tells Beatriz Sánchez about the difficulties she is having to pay for her new house in the Czech Republic.
In his conversation he alludes to the person who would be in charge of introducing money from abroad into Spain. According to the Police, it is about Hassan Shareef, a partner of Sub Maldives PVT LTD., which is based on the islands of the Indian Ocean and is engaged in diving and yacht charter activities.
However, judicial sources consulted by EL ESPAÑOL point out that the analysis of the documents intervened in the ventriloquist’s mansion in Boadilla del Monte (Madrid), carried out on June 28, has not confirmed these suspicions so far.
They trust, however, that the enormous documentation seized and the letters rogatory sent by Judge Ismael Moreno will finally allow the existence of undeclared accounts in Switzerland or Panama.
Sources close to the producer do not rule out that José Luis Moreno, accustomed to living beyond his means, would boast of a fortune that he does not have, to cover appearances before his acquaintances and before the Argentine businessman Alejandro Roemmers, to ensure that he continued investing millionaire sums in his new series, Glow & Darkness (The brightness and the darkness).
Moreno denies the scam
A good part of the recorded conversations show a desperate flight forward by Moreno and his narrowest circle of collaborators to obtain liquidity, in order to meet the terms of the debts contracted with the Treasury and with other creditors. Moreno’s great fear was losing the jewel in the crown of his group of companies, the television studios located in Moraleja de Enmedio (Madrid), seized by the Tax Agency.
In another telephone jab recorded on December 22, his frontman Martin Czehmester relates that José Luis Moreno has told him that “they have never been so bad and the only thing he wants is take some pills and leave this world“.
The ventriloquist wrote a letter to Judge Ismael Moreno on July 28, in which he denies having “swindled” Argentine producer Alejandro Roemmers. In his pleading, he states that has already shot more than 2,000 minutes of the series Glow & Darkness, equivalent to 35 chapters of 45 minutes, and makes all the footage available to the magistrate so that he can view it.
Moreno has also sent the investigating judge an expert opinion carried out by the producers José Ramón Velasco and Alejandro Gómez Lavilla, which he values in 225 million euros the rolled material.
Expertise ‘on demand’
In this regard, José Luis Moreno indicates that the production cost (so far 35 million euros invested by Alejandro Roemmers) has included the hiring of stars such as Joan Collins, as well as “more than 600 flights, 400 train tickets, 4,000 overnight stays hotels, the participation of more than 520 actors, 445 technicians, 1,600 extras, 66 dancers, 73 musicians and 36 choristers “.
In several telephone taps carried out by the Police, José Luis Moreno tells his collaborators the need to look for an expert to justify the high costs that Youmore and other companies in his environment have invoiced to the production company of the series.
Roemmers had addressed Moreno an ultimatum last December, because after having invested more than 35 million, he had not yet been able to watch a finished episode.
In a conversation recorded a few days later with the figurehead Martin Czehmester, Beatriz Sánchez admits that “they have not yet contracted the dubbing or the color, but it is also They have no director of photography, no sound equipment, or hair and makeup equipment. They do special effects in Malta, but we have been told that to do them they have to have a complete chapter. “
José Luis Moreno had not finished recording a single episode of the series last December, according to his collaborator Beatriz Sánchez.
In his desperate search for liquidity, José Luis Moreno turned to an individual, Antonio A., who obtained financing from banks by providing unfunded promissory notes issued by companies incorporated for this purpose.
This individual was connected to an organization that allegedly laundered drug money, through the use of mules: paid a commission to drivers who transported cash by road from abroad. From the telephone taps, it appears that the network intended to introduce 11 million euros into Spain, from cities such as Amsterdam and London.
The Police have intervened in this network a fleet of 80 luxury cars, which include several Porsche, Ferraris, Maserati, Mercedes, large-displacement Alfa Romeo and a Tesla model 3. Among the assets seized from this network are also several properties in Madrid, Cambrils (Barcelona) and Peñíscola (Castellón), used to launder black money, according to the Police.
In an order issued on September 13, Judge Ismael Moreno has forbidden their owners to dispose of these assets, to “guarantee compliance with the possible financial penalties and liability that may be imposed on them.”
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