The Ministry of the Interior, a department headed by Fernando Grande-Marlaska, on September 27 awarded Commissioner Víctor de Aldama, one of the main protagonists of the biggest corruption case of the government of Pedro Sánchez, the Order of Merit of the Guard. 2022. Civil.
This is stated in the page published that day in the Official Bulletin of the Corps, to which EL ESPAÑOL had access. The publication shows how this decoration is awarded both to a colonel of the Civil Guard Information Headquarters (JIGC), the elite counterterrorism unit of the Armed Institute, and to a list of names.
Among them is this businessman and businessman who pulled the rug out from under him this Thursday before the National Court by implicating different ministers of Sánchez’s Executive in his affairs and alleging irregularities.
The Benemérita associations have already started to mobilize so that this reward is withdrawn from the person indicted. The United Association of Civil Guards (AUGC) asked the minister to withdraw the medal awarded more than two years ago.
Publication of the Official Journal of the Civil Guard with the decoration awarded to Aldama.
Aldama was arrested in February this year, with the outbreak of the so-called Koldo affair and until now no one at the Interior had decided to remove this badge. In today’s bulletin the decoration It appears to be signed by the minister himself.
UCE-2 Collaborator
In his statement on Thursday, Aldama admitted to having worked for Special Central Unit 2 (UCE-2), a group specializing in counterterrorism investigations within the Civil Guard. “Due to my travels to Mexico and my travels to Venezuela and a series of things, I acted with the UCE-2 to provide a series of information.”
Aldama claimed that his role as collaborator was behind his work with Rubén Villalba Carnerero, the commander investigated in the plot. “And what was given to Rubén every month was to give me encrypted telephone devices for my security and to be able to speak safely with him and with the unit. In other words, 2,000 euros are not given to the commander of the Civil Guard for his salary, for his stories He gave himself to give me devices for my safety and that of the unit,” Aldama defended.
However, and as reflected in one of the reports of the investigators of the Central Operational Unit (UCO) of the Civil Guard, the commander investigated managed to have Aldama registered in the database of collaborators and confidants of the General Directorate of Information from the Civil Guard. in order to know any alert pounce on this individual if investigations were opened against him.
The UCO highlighted in its report that there is “a strong set of elements that demonstrate Aldama’s ability to achieve the set objectives”. infiltration of his alleged criminal organization into state security forces and organs”.
Commander Villalba Carnerero was arrested last March shortly after being appointed attaché of the Embassy of Spain in Venezuela. During the years when the plot spread, police command was assigned to the General Directorate of Information, dedicated primarily to anti-terrorism investigations.
Registered as confidant
It was one of these colleagues that he used, as indicated in the last report, to be able to register Aldama in the register of collaborators of the Armed Institute. Rubén and Víctor formed a relationship at the end of 2019. However, as the UCO points out, “it was not until the summer of 2021 that Aldama could be registered in the police database at the request of Rubén.
In one of the messages found on the phone tapped by this Benemérita commander, it is evident that he asks one of his colleagues from Information to do him the favor of including the businessman as if he was just another Corps confidant.
Its interlocutors being agents dedicated to the fight against terrorism, the UCO, in its latest report on the Koldo affairomits their names for security reasons. “Hey, Agent 13, the collaborator that I gave you so that you can register itVíctor Gonzalo… This one, ultimately what? “You didn’t tell me… You didn’t tell me anything,” Rubén asked.
The collaborative system of Information Headquarters It generates automatic messages that appear as alerts to the officer who registered the informant in question at the police base. These warnings are activated, for example, when another police unit begins to investigate this person.
This is what happened with Aldama. The commander investigated Koldo affair He managed to convince one of his colleagues to register him in order to anticipate and thus know the steps taken by his colleagues in the UCO of the Civil Guard, as Rubén Villalba recounted in another conversation with other members of the conspiracy.
“I think that every time you are registered for a new operation the match skips“, said the commander in a WhatsApp conversation. The first time he became aware of this coincidence was, as he himself points out, in 2022. “The chief spoke with the colonel of the UCO at the time and they told him to keep going. “I don’t take care of him anymore, even though the boss said he was going to invite him to lunch yesterday.”
The AUGC considers “unacceptable that decorations are awarded to people whose careers may contradict the principles of ethics, honesty and commitment that govern our institution. This practice not only tarnishes the prestige of the Civil Guard, but also deeply hurts the agents who dedicate their lives of service without receiving the recognition they deserve.
