The prosecutor committed to Víctor de Aldama to ask for his freedom and he will soon be released from prisonas soon as the judge agrees. National Court sources indicate that Judge Santiago Pedraz cannot keep Aldama in prison if the prosecutor files a report requesting his release. Prosecutor Luis Pastor has already submitted his report to the president of the Central Investigation Court number 5 Santiago Pedraz, who accepted his entry into prison on October 10. He does this after offering to voluntarily testify in the legal cases that concern him and to collaborate with justice. The commissioner admitted before the judge that he had a relationship with Pedro Sánchez.
The allegedly criminal activities of businessman Víctor de Aldama were revealed to the public last February, when he was arrested in connection with the notorious Operation Delorme. The researchers They immersed themselves in the mouthfuls of millionaires medical equipment contracts awarded by different administrations governed by the PSOE. Aldama was arrested with a dozen collaborators, among whom was the former advisor to the Minister of Development Koldo García.
The procedure was named Koldo affairHowever, UCO agents named Aldama as “corrupting link” of the alleged criminal organization. The Central Court of Instruction number 2, headed by Ismael Moreno, conducts investigations in collaboration with the Prosecutor’s Office Special against corruption and organized crime, better known as Anti-Corruption. He was in the dungeons of the National Court, but Moreno decided to release him for this affair. His passport was confiscated and he had to periodically go to court to sign.
Last October Aldama was arrested again as part of a judicial investigation concerning VAT fraud in the strategic hydrocarbons sector. Concretely, Anti-Corruption estimates the amount defrauded at 182 million euros, of which at least 70 million would have gone abroad. The judge decided that he should remain in temporary prison after assessing the risk of fleeing and hiding funds outside Spain. He also argued that there were still ongoing proceedings that could be jeopardized if Aldama were free.
His defense appealed his imprisonment, but Pedraz overturned the attempt. Subsequently, he appealed to the Chamber and the judges of the National Court supported Pedraz and decided to keep him in prison. Now, thanks to collaboration with the justice system, he will be released from prison. That’s what the prosecutor asked. Luis Pasteurwho acts as a representative of the public prosecutor’s office both at the level Koldo affair as in the case of hydrocarbons in which Aldama is studied.
The businessman was in favor of collaborating in the investigation, and not only in the Koldo affair. He also asked to voluntarily testify as part of the investigation into hydrocarbon plotbut the judge has not yet accepted it. In addition, he offered the opportunity to appear before the Supreme Court as part of the special cause opened following the drawing of the mask.
Aldama, Sánchez and Begoña
During his appearance before the judge, the commissioner only answered questions from the prosecutor and his lawyer, José Antonio Choclán, who managed to get him out of prison. Aldama acknowledged that Pedro Sánchez wanted to meet him and that is why he attended the PSOE rally at the La Latina theater where he took a photo with the Spanish president.
“He told me that they had informed him and that he thanked him for what he was doing for the Spanish government.”Aldama told the judge in reference to some railroad work he was trying to start in Mexico. The sources consulted explain that it was the Maya Train that Aldama, using his contacts at the Ministry of Public Works, tried to award to the public company Ineco, without success.
Aldama also assured the judge that he knew Pedro Sánchez’s wife. The commissioner emphasizes that He was with Begoña Gómez in a meeting with the third vice president, Teresa Ribera. Specifically, Aldama explained that they met to launch projects for theme parks in the cities of empty Spain. The sources consulted assure that Begoña shared a commercial flight to Georgia with Aldama.
