MADRID 8 May. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The National Court Judge, José Luis Calama, who investigates the Gotham City analysis firm to allegedly launch misleading information about the Grifols company, will take a statement this Friday as a witness to the president of the National Securities Market Commission (CNMV), Rodrigo Buenaventura, until the end of 2024.
This diligence occurs two weeks after Calamana interrogated, also as witnesses, the CNMV market general director, Ángel Benito, and the Supervisor Financial and Corporate Information Department Director, Eduardo Manso.
Legal sources explained to Europa Press that, on the one hand, Manso defended that the report that Gotham City Research published about Grifols on January 9, 2024 was particular and with a different objective than those elaborated by the CNMV, since while the purpose of the supervisor is to verify whether the results of a company comply The shares was zero.
For his part, Benito reaffirmed to consider that Gotham City Research, and its matrix, the American General Industrial Partners Fund (GIP), committed a crime of manipulation by launching deceptive information on the Grifols company.
Anti -corruption complaint
It was last November when Judge Calama admitted a complaint from the Anti -Corruption Prosecutor’s Office that asked to investigate Gotham City, GIP and several of its managers for allegedly launching biased and misleading information on the credibility of Grifols in order to induce its investors to sell the actions of this pharmacist, which is quoted in the Spanish stock exchange and is part of the IBEX 35 It would generate a benefit to the two mercantiles denounced.
The magistrate, in the order by which he admitted the complaint, considered that a crime typified in article 284.1.2 of the Criminal Code could have been committed, which sanctions “who directly or indirectly or indirectly or through a means of communication, by means companies”.
All this, he added, “offering to the totally or partially false economic data in order to alter or preserve the price price of a financial instrument.”
In the case analyzed, the magistrate collected the messages published by Gotham between January 8 and 9 of last year on the old Twitter, currently X, where he included a report on Grifols that concluded that the actions of the pharmaceutical company were worth 0 euros.
Losses of 3,814 million euros
As a consequence of that report, on January 9, the shares of Grifols reached before the session some losses of 3,814 million euros.
In that same document, added the judge, Gotham reported that it is a subsidiary of General Industrial Partners LP and that it maintained a short position in Grifols, exceeding 0.5% of the share capital. After the publication of the Gotham report, the short position of that was drastically reduced to 0.06%.
Operate in short positions, explained the magistrate, “implies selling shares that are not proprietary and that have been taken on loan, to sell them advantageously, having to buy in order to return the actions provided.”
“The profit lies in the difference between the sale price of the shares and the purchase of the shares (or repurchase of what is sold),” the judge continued, which concludes that this operation was for General Industrial Partners a surplus value of more than 9.4 million euros.
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