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José Luis Moreno, the ventriloquist of the “Rockefeller” crow, arrested: the accusation is tax fraud and money laundering

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The ventriloquist José Luis Moreno, father of the famous puppet “Rockefeller”, one of the protagonists of the Italian television of the eighties, was arrested in Madrid, by the Guardia civil, on charges of criminal association, fraud, money laundering and theft of goods. The operation, renamed “Titella” (marionette or puppet in Catalan), brought about fifty people under arrest. And in Spain, where he was a television producer, the news caused a sensation.

The investigation unmasked an international trading network, which the businessman allegedly used to steal money from bank and private loans. Once the funds were obtained, Moreno and his partners would then divert them to instrumental companies to prevent it from being claimed by credit institutions. A scam estimated at around 50 million euros.

Moreno and his partners, according to sources of the investigation, would have created more than 700 merchant companies with which they would have appropriated money from bank and private loans. Once the money was diverted through the corporate network, customers could no longer get it back. Among the collaborators of the network were employees and managers of banking institutions. Involvement in money laundering from drug trafficking is also suspected.

It is not the first time that José Luis Rodríguez Moreno gets in trouble. In 2015, in the course of his activity as a television producer, he had contracted a debt of 6 and a half million euros towards various professionals in the show business. The actress Yolanda Ramos had publicly accused him of late payments, and would also be indebted to the Revenue Agency for about three million euros. In 1999 he rented the Calderón Theater, a setting of the theater caused the death of a woman. In 2007, his residence in Boadilla del Monte was attacked by a gang of Albanian Kosovars and the producer was hospitalized following his injuries. An attack repeated also in 2016. In 2011 he was called to testify as a defendant in a case for allegedly collecting a “bribe”, which was then closed due to lack of evidence. And, in 2014, his recording studios were the victim of a fire.

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In Italy, José Luis Moreno, had arrived thanks to Raffaella Carrà, who had noticed him on Spanish television and had decided to bring him to his show «Hello, Raffaella? ». In addition to Rockefeller in the eighties he had created other puppets with which he performed: Monchito and Macario. But after seeing his fame – often disputed – as a ventriloquist in decline, Moreno had tried the path of directing, acting, recording some music albums. Then, in recent times, he had focused on television production, with TV series and broadcasts broadcast not only in Spain but also in Latin America.

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