Ábalos and Koldo collected money from Aldama in the Dominican Republic on at least three occasions

To receive the payments, Ábalos’ advisor sent his brother to travel to Santo Domingo. Joseba Garcia.

Aldama, in his statement before Judge Ismael Moreno of the National Court, confirmed that This money was then divided between the Minister of Transport and Koldo..

Payments were made by Aranzazu GranellArancha, who was an employee of Pronalab laboratories. This company is also linked to Ignacio Diaz Tapia.

Nacho Díaz is a partner at Aldama and was responsible for concluding the antigen testing contracts with the socialist governments of the Balearic Islands and the Canary Islands, chaired respectively by Francina Armengol and Ángel Víctor Torres.

The “salary” of Ábalos and Koldo

Víctor de Aldama also admitted, when questioned by his lawyer, that the inscription “10,000 K” was the money that had been allocated monthly to José Luis Ábalos and Koldo García as orders.

The businessman said he knew that this money was also going to Ábalos and had direct experience of it, even though he never handed the invoices to the minister.

On one of the occasions when he took Koldo’s money to the Ministry of Transport, The advisor distributed it to him with Ábalos in front of him.

Aldama believes that it was a gesture on their part, as a sign of “trust” and that the money “went to the one it was supposed to go to”, referring to Ábalos.

According to Aldama, Ábalos received more than 650,000 euros in cash and Koldo 300,000 additional euros in these alleged bribes, which would have functioned as compensation in exchange for the award of public contracts investigated by the Justice.

The payments, according to Aldama, began two months after the return of the trip to Mexico in February 2019, i.e. in April. Koldo directly asked him for money for Ábalos, because this way he would have many more possibilities to conclude contracts and do business with the public administration.

The commissionaire, according to his version, withdrew money from the construction sector.

More specifically, Aldama clarified that what Ábalos and Koldo perceived were 250,000 euros and 100,000 eurosrespectively, for the rewards granted to the company Soluciones de Gestión SL for the purchase of masks.

At one point in his statement this Thursday, Aldama said he told Ábalos and Koldo: “I am not the Bank of Spain and you are already going too far.”

Aldama has identified that the alias El Grandu is Ábalos and the Goblins are Koldo. Both appear in an Excel sheet with the money amounts.

Ábalos had asked for 2,000,000 euros in commissions. However, Aldama was unable to make these payments because, according to the commission agent, “the accounts were not settled”.

For its part, the pseudonym Globins, referring to Koldo, appeared the “Home” noteaccompanied by an amount of 500,000 euros.

The businessman explained that Koldo asked him to buy the house, owned by José Luis Ábalos, in which the councilor lived, as a rental. This house is located on Calle Humilladero, next to Calle Cava Baja in Madrid, in the La Latina district.

In other words, Koldo wanted Aldama to pay 500,000 euros to Ábalos and for the councilor to become the owner of the house.

Holidays and gifts

In addition to cash, the businessman admitted to paying for vacations and gifts to both the minister and Koldo.

Víctor de Aldama said he bought Koldo García a motorcycle, a car to his wife Patricia Úriz and also paid artificial insemination treatment of the advisor and his wife.

In the case of Ábalos, Aldama paid 88,000 euros to the elderly for rent a luxury apartment of the minister’s girlfriend, Jessica Rodriguez Garcia.

This was at the request of Ábalos and the house is located in the Tower of Madrid, in the capital’s Plaza de España.

The commissioner accepted and ordered his partner and leader, Luis Alberto Escolanolet him do it.

The payments were continued from March 2019 to September 2021, two months after Ábalos ceased to be minister.

The commissioner explained that Jésica ended up breaking off her relationship with Ábalos and that He threatened the former number 2 of the PSOEalthough he did not elaborate on this matter.