Enrique Beltran Ruiz, the notary who was arrested during Operation Tetilla (puppet, in Catalan) as an alleged facilitator for producer and ventriloquist José Luis Moreno to obtain around €50 million, has been identified again by another alleged victim. Although it is not processed … Finally, in the case of the TV media expert, Beltran points to another company as the perpetrator of a fraud that could amount to 550,000 euros in the first place, without accounting for loss of profits, consequential damages or damage to reputation, which would take the total amount claimed to escalate to 2.1 million euros. Besides the notary, three people were charged, as well as Verum itself.
The criminal complaint, accessed by the ABC, accuses him of the crimes of persistent aggravated fraud, forgery of documents, membership in a criminal organization, embezzlement, and secondarily unfair management.
This started when Verum Investments approached Interlatin. It was presented as a “high-profile financial instrument, capable of providing $14 million for joint investment in Interlatin’s own activities under the promise of a joint operation, not a shareholding or credit.”
The complainant asserts that to give the appearance of legitimacy and seriousness to the offer, Verum directed the process through Notary Beltran. It was he who passed a public bond in which this joint investment was recorded at a value of $14 million. First, the first million will be paid in 15 days and the rest of the capital in 30 days. “The intervention of Enrique Beltran – as Julen Martínez, from Valmaceda Abogados and author of the complaint, explains – was not a secondary element, but rather a nuclear element in order for Interlatin to have confidence in the validity of the operation.”
So much so that the supposedly fraudulent company accepted the terms and started making advance payments (for expenses, commissions, policies, banking structures…) requested by Verum as a pre-receipt of funds. In short, the investors never had a “genuine intention of completing” the payment of the 14 million, but instead used this trick to retain the previous payments.
From the company Verum, they made numerous claims to their victims, with dozens of emails specifying payment dates, which never arrived, since January 2022. As a result of the deception, Interlatin claims that it “kept its financial and business capacity restricted, lost relevant business opportunities and, finally, was forced to terminate historical commercial contracts,” such as the distribution contract with Hewlett Packard/Keysight.
The defendants never paid the 14 million, not even the first amount they had to pay within fifteen days. His victims learned, in the middle of this whole process, that “the bond authorized by Notary Beltran served as the cornerstone that gave legal and economic credibility to the project, by collecting pre-contractual information and under the doctrine of documenting certain investment terms (amount, terms and bank account at J.P. Morgan) that were false.” Lawyer Julen Martinez says his intervention “was not only impartial, but was decisive so that Verum’s fraudulent mechanism could be completed at Interlatin’s expense.”