Commissioner Víctor de Aldama pulled the curtain this Thursday in front of the National Court with such force that he left half of the government and a good part of the PSOE cold, where they reacted in public trying to damage the credibility from a story that the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office bought. The President of the Government went further by calling him a “suspected criminal” and Aldama, whose strategy of denunciation worked to the point that he was released from prison nine hours after testifying, responded from the very door of the Soto del prison. Real (Madrid): “Don’t worry about Mr. Sánchez, he will have proof of everything.” He also accused the president of the government, calling him a “mythomaniac” and ironically saying that “he suffered from Alzheimer’s disease”, because he did not seem to remember having known him at all. And yes, they took a photo together and it was not accidental, as he had previously stated to the National Court: “Photos taken with anyone are taken on the street, not in private spaces”, he assured. Before the judge, Aldama appeared dressed in a blue suit and eager to tell his story. In a tone between explanation, irony and indignation, he ended up claiming himself as a sort of “Mr. Wolf” – “we have arrived at the ministry and it’s great for us”, they told him. said – that solved the problem. problems openly. “No one hid from me in meetings,” he said. And among these, he mentioned several. The two most serious were in bars. In one in front of the PSOE headquarters, on Ferraz Street, he allegedly handed 15,000 euros in an envelope to the current secretary of the Organization of Socialists, Santos Cerdán, to appease him, like the minister’s advisor José Luis Ábalos , Koldo García, had indicated; after having trampled on “his territory” by maneuvering in favor of a construction company for a call for tenders in the north of the country. According to his statement, Koldo explained to him that “there were quotas and that the Basque quota comes from Santos Cerdán and that there was a lot of anger.” “Ultimately to please him…” he commented to the judge, according to the recording to which ABC had access. He put the money in an envelope and in his presence, Koldo gave it to him. The lawyer puts the finishing touches: “the question of quotas will be explained, if you wish, on another occasion.” The second, similar context but relating to the headquarters of a ministry. Koldo had told him that he had to have “a detail” with Carlos Moreno, the chief of staff of the Minister of Finance, María Jesús Montero, because they had obtained a tax deferment for a company, Pilot Real State, without have the required guarantees. There were still 25,000 euros in an envelope that Koldo, also in his presence, handed over into the hands of the senior official two months after the release of the postponement. “Obviously Mr. Moreno says that before doing anything he has to talk to his boss, who is Minister Montero, and that if she authorizes it, they will do it,” he explained to about this favor. It’s done.Related news Standard No The judge releases Víctor de Aldama Isabel Vega The prosecution supported his request for release from prison after two hours of testimony in which he pulled the cover and put the government and the PSOE under control . There was a payment more at Koldo’s request, as he said, but it did not happen. It was for Ángel Víctor Torres, then president of the Canary Islands and today Minister of Territorial Policy. He had to give him 50,000 euros so as not to have “problems” with the masks that Management Solutions would sell him. Aldama did not pay and there were obstacles, as the island government said the masks were fake. Aldama said this in response to questions from his lawyer, José Antonio Choclán, the real architect of this appearance who is looking for mitigating circumstances to collaborate with justice and shorten his stay in temporary prison for another case involving hydrocarbons. The strategy was developed on the fly. That same Thursday, he asked Judge Santiago Pedraz for Aldama’s release and the prosecution supported his request: he was released at 9 p.m. It is not for nothing that tax sources consulted by ABC have already argued that Aldama’s story regarding the denunciations is plausible and should be investigated, either in the National Court or before a ordinary court. “Everyone knew Delcy” This appreciated verisimilitude gives another perspective to the rest of a statement that questions the version of the government and the PSOE on aspects such as the photo that Koldo took of Aldama with Pedro Sánchez in the stand of a theater where in March 2019 the president presented Pepu Hernández as mayor of Madrid. The image, published by El Mundo, was vilified as a classic fan selfie, but Aldama stressed this Thursday that it was not “accidental” but intended. He claimed that Koldo and Ábalos invited him because the President of the Government wanted to meet and talk to him. And it happened: “He literally said to me, thank you for what you’re doing, you’ve kept me informed.” It was a train to Mexico for Spanish companies. Aldama left the stand, then Sánchez and Koldo, he said. He also contradicted the official version regarding the passage at Madrid airport of the vice-president of Venezuela, Delcy Rodríguez. He assured that the trip had been organized “a month before” and that within the government “everyone knew about the trip”. He clarified that Sánchez, the Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, knew him; and of course, Ábalos: “I spoke directly with Delcy via my cell phones,” she assured, adding that it was she who warned that she was being sanctioned and that she could not put the feet in Spain. “It was not a private trip” and he could not dress as an officer because “everyone knew it,” he added. She would end up frustrated when Foreign Affairs learned she was coming, but Aldama had already booked her a luxury villa in Madrid that, according to Koldo, the police and the CNI had looked into, and he had found her an agenda that included the dinner. at home with, among others, Sánchez, Ábalos, Marlaska, Montero, Salvador Illa and Teresa Ribera. So, when he declared having had “several meetings” with the head of the Ecological Transition and European Vice-President on the subject of “emptied Spain”, he assured that Ribera “knew perfectly who” he was. In this project, moreover, the wife of Pedro Sánchez, Begoña Gómez, participated on behalf of a Globalia hub, Wakalúa, as also pointed out on Thursday by Aldama, who knew that the minister and she had met once. “The Bank of Spain”But perhaps the most affected was Ábalos. Aldama explained that from the mask contracts alone and in the name of his own commission, the former minister took 250,000 euros and his advisor, 100,000, although they wanted to keep “50%” of their profits. “I am not the Bank of Spain,” he told them. But apart from these contracts, the former minister, who denied the majority in a press release this Thursday, would have received from him more than 400,000 euros in cash and Koldo 200,000 others. These accounts do not include in-kind payments, such as Ábalos’ girlfriend’s apartment or the motorcycle he bought from Koldo. Nor the Alcaidesa chalet for the former minister. Aldama said they wanted him to put it in his name and he refused, because “he had already paid them elsewhere.” He looked for partnerships and an ex-girlfriend signed him. Because Aldama, nothing else, but he managed the money. He also spoke about it to the accused Civil Guard information commander, Rubén Villalba, to ensure that he was not paid just because, like the others, but to pay for the secure cell phones he provided each month and to cover expenses. of Special Central Unit 2, Antiterrorism, because they lack resources. He was proud to have bought a drone from them and received a medal. He appeared in the collaborators’ base, but other than for money or because he mentioned that they had come into contact with him during his trips to Mexico and Venezuela, he did not give any details. other explanations about what he was doing for reasons, he said: of “national security.”
