Global 360 Media, the , grew thanks to money from Iran. Since its incorporation in 2012 and until last year, the company obtained 60% of its income from the Government of Tehran. According to data from the Mercantile Registry, the company, in which the Iranian businessman Mahmoud Alizadeh Azimi has 99% of the capital, recorded a combined turnover of 16 million euros during those eight years.
According to the newspaper El Mundo, Iran would have made transfers to him for at least 9.3 million, thus becoming his main source of income. The Sepblac (Executive Service of the Commission for Money Laundering and Monetary Offenses) calculated this figure by analyzing transfers suspected of laundering in 67 entries between 2012 and 2015 to Global 360 Media, which subsequently paid the leader of Podemos, Pablo Iglesias.
Under the presidency in Iran of Mahmud Ahmadinejad, the regime of the ayatollahs, launched in Spain in 2012 the Hispan TV channel under the control of Global 360. It was from then on when said company began to contract the services of Iglesias, which carried out several programs billed through the association Producciones Con Mano Izquierda (CMI). This is the case, for example, of La Tuerka or Fort Apache.
According to the documentation of the association sent to the Ministry of the Interior, Iglesias was appointed member of the board on April 8, 2012. Carlos Guijarro was its president and Tristán Meyer, son of former United Left MEP Willy, was its secretary. Meyer.
On January 12, 2015, however, the production company registered a modification of its organization chart and both Iglesias and Meyer left the leadership, Camila Rigali being then appointed as president and Almudena Tomás as secretary.
in black
As this newspaper announced in December 2014, Iglesias would have collected part of the invoices in black money, which later led to the opening of an investigation by the Udef, the Economic and Fiscal Crimes Unit of the Police. The leader of Podemos and now vice president of the Government even carried out intermediation work as a broker with the Iranian Government for which some of the Hispan TV programs were going to be broadcast on the Madrid Channel 33.
Enrique Riobóo, founder and owner of Channel 33, came to recognize that “Iran agreed to pay us a total of 5,000 euros per month for this assignment of television spaces, but Iglesias demanded that I pay a commission of 2,000 euros, also taking into account that he directed and hosted one of the Iranian TV shows: Ford Apache”.
It is from then on when part of that payment begins to be made with an invoice and another without paying the corresponding taxes, according to Riobóo.
In addition to Iran, Podemos would have also been financed with money from Venezuela or Ecuador. Between 2002 and 2012, an anti-capitalist and ultra-left organization, the CEPS Foundation (Centro de Estudios Políticos y Sociales), in which Iglesias participated, received grants from the Bolivarian Government of Venezuela worth 7.1 million euros.
Venezuelan payments
The payments to the foundation, of which Pablo Iglesias, Juan Carlos Monedero and Jorge Verstrynge were direct beneficiaries, break down into one of 1.6 million euros in 2008 and several more of 2.8 million euros in the period 2009-2012 . These amounts would thus be added to the 3.7 million euros previously received by CEPS for other advisory work to the Bolivarian Government.
The Spanish press published in 2016 some documents compiled by the Udef and authenticated at the time by the former Finance Minister of Hugo Chávez Rafael Isea, whose signature is also recorded, in which these payments to CEPS are collected and it is specified that they are intended for ” strengthen ties and commitments with recognized representatives of left-wing schools of thought, fundamentally anti-capitalist, who in Spain can create consensus among political forces and social movements, promoting political changes in that country that are even more in tune with the Bolivarian government”.
During the specific years in which Iglesias was a member of the executive committee, 2008 and 2009, the Government of Caracas paid 1.36 million to the organization, which has received funds from the Chavista regime. In total, 7.1 million euros between 2002 and 2012.
But the ties between the foundation and Podemos go further. And it is that, for example, apart from Iglesias and Monedero, another prominent party leader, the current second vice president of the Valencian Government, Rubén Martínez Dalmau, was vice president of the CEPS board of trustees and of its executive council until 2007, occupying since 2008 the positions of president of both the Board of Trustees and the executive committee.
Everything is now pending the judicial investigation open to the party for irregular financing.
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