The Marbella Prosecutor’s Office investigates a businessman founder and CEO of Immucura Med SL. in relation to bogus innovative cancer therapies after allegedly selling illegal treatments to hundreds of people with cancer.
The public ministry has announced the opening of proceedings for alleged crimes of fraud and crimes against public health allegedly committed by the company, whose founder and CEO is Johannes Schumacher, as announced this Tuesday The Countryafter an investigation by an international consortium of journalists.
An investment banking professional
Schumacher, an investment banking professional who has managed funds in the Cayman Islands and claims to have been an advisor to the Russian Government, created a company that has been offering dendritic cell treatment to hundreds of patients, most of them in critical phases, for almost a decade. of the disease, in several European countries, with revenues of millions of euros.
After opening proceedings, the prosecutor has referred the case to the Dean’s Office so that after its distribution the court in charge of its investigation can investigate whether the facts constitute a crime, as reported by tax sources.
Previously sanctioned company
For its part, the Andalusian Government has confirmed that this company has already been sanctioned and a procedure is open.
This autonomous body already received a complaint against the company in December 2019 for illegal use of advanced therapy medications and the Spanish Agency for Medicines and Health Products (Aemps) itself warned that the company offered a cancer treatment with dentritic cells, which would consider an illegal advanced therapy medication.
Sanctions for the company
In 2022, a new complaint before the Junta de Andalucía also ended with sanctions for this company.
Although the company assures that it no longer operates in Spain, the international conglomerate of journalists has detected that Immucura has continued to offer its treatments in 2024 and after contacting The Country With the Spanish health authorities, the Marbella Prosecutor’s Office has announced the opening of proceedings for two alleged crimes, fraud and public health.
Source: www.lavanguardia.com
