They ask the judge to know why the other time he wanted to investigate the origin of the money before authorizing provisional release
MADRID, 4 Nov. (EUROPA PRESS) –
A platform that represents more than 700 affected by the alleged scam with cryptocurrencies of the Algorithmmics business group has asked the judge of the National Court Alejandro Abascal to investigate the million euros deposited as bail by the main defendant Javier Biosca, released again .
In a resource collected by Europa Press, the Zaballos Abogados office, which represents the platform, has asked the investigating judge to revoke, “until the traceability of the bail money is ascertained”, his order of October 28 with which agreed, for the second time this year, to give the broker provisional release.
Zaballos points to “contradictions” between what has been done on this occasion and what was done in April, when the person in charge of the Central Court of Instruction Number 1 refused to release Biosca on provisional release until the traceability of the money was investigated, as the Prosecutor’s Office and the injured parties had requested.
For the office, there is a change of criteria both from the judge, who in that decision “does not leave room for doubt that before agreeing on the release, the investigation of the traceability of the bail money proceeds”, as well as from the Public Prosecutor’s Office , which –in the opinion of this accusation– has not reasoned “sufficiently” its position.
Without conditioning the release to a prior investigation into the money, the Prosecutor’s Office considered the bail provided by Biosca to be sufficient, although it was interested in investigating the origin of the million euros and the relationship of the broker with the company that has paid it.
The judge has declared the Algorithmmics broker’s bail “quite enough” and ordered his release, but has imposed, among other measures, that he appear every 15 days at the Court or in the nearest court and not leave Spain without permission.
After this “incomprehensible” decision, Zaballos asks Judge Abascal for explanations, “especially when” it is known “how Biosca’s last release ended” last June, the bizarre story that followed” and “his unwillingness to make any payment “.
They refer to the fact that in July Abascal agreed to return Biosca to prison with a bail of one million euros. The magistrate made that decision after both his former lawyers and his guarantor warned the instructor that they suspected he might run away.
The office also emphasizes Internet information that would evidence Biosca’s relationship with the company that has deposited its bail, provided by a “famous investor in cryptocurrencies” and “founder of controversial platforms such as Arbistar”, also investigated in the National Court by another alleged crypto scam.
It should be remembered that the former guarantor of the person under investigation warned the judge that he had tried to contact Biosca but it had been “totally impossible” because the broker’s phone “was continuously off.” For this reason, he went to Biosca’s home, where “there was no one since July 4.” The neighbors, according to him, told him that “on that date there had been a move of furniture.”
The broker, for his part, appeared by videoconference from Seville and denied to the judge of the National Court that he had tried to flee. If he had not been able to be located, he assured, it was because his guarantor called a different telephone number than the one he uses.
Biosca is being investigated for continued fraud, misappropriation and falsehood in a public document, crimes that he would have perpetrated through the company Algorithmhmics Group, capturing since 2019 private investors who wanted to obtain high interests in the cryptocurrency market. The damage would be around 500 million euros and there would be more than 750 affected.
