Parter Capital’s partner-director, Rüdiger Terhost, has appeared in a case opened in the National Court investigating alleged crimes following the sale of Alu Ibérica and subsequent management of both the Swiss fund and the Industrial Group. Both Terhost and his partner Joachim Magin, have been indicted for months and Judge María Tardón, head of Madrid’s Central Court of Investigation No. 3 of the National Court, has issued different orders with the aim of finding the executive and for him to go on to declare as under investigation.

The move for Rüdiger Terhost is logical, as Parter Capital still has a business in Spain where it currently owns the old Guardian facility in Llodio, dedicated to the manufacture of automotive glass. In this way, an order issued by the National Court may create an uncomfortable situation.

In this way, you can appear before Judge María Tardón recommended by a lawyer you trust and prepare a strategy for your defense. Hosted has hired Carlos Gómez-Jara Diez, a Madrid lawyer who, in addition to his profession, teaches at the International Unit of La Rioja (UNIR), particularly Criminal Law. According to the university’s central website, Gómez-Jara is a specialist in complex economic processes. In the next few days, Carlos Gómez-Jara will receive existing documentation with which he can start preparing his defense strategy.

Hosted testimony would be of great interest in explaining Parter Capital’s relationship with Alcoa, in addition to the decision to sell 74% to Grupo Industrial Riesgo, an option explicitly prohibited in the agreement with Alcoa.

Following the Host’s decision, hopefully Joachim Magin will take similar steps in the coming days.

And, in the same way that more lawyers were brought into the proceedings that were started as a result of the Confederation of Cadres and Professionals complaints, others left them. This is the case for lawyer Luis Losada, one of the Grupo Industrial Riesgo executives under investigation, who resigned from continuing to defend someone who, in his words, was a puppet.

In addition, judge Ismael Moreno Chamarro, head of the central investigative court number 2 of the National Court, has informed the parties to report on the possible extension of the separate sections opened by Judge María Tardón in April last year.

Although the judge declared the investigation confidential, it all pointed to possible money laundering crimes which were detected by police records and the National Police’s Economic and Fiscal Crimes Unit (UDEF) report when it uncovered operations by Industrial Risk Group executives. conducted in Cyprus and the UK.