The businessman Victor de Aldama assured in his statement this Thursday before the National Court that Jose Luis Abalos and his advisor, Koldo Garcia, received orders from him for the allocation of the mask contract during the COVID 19 pandemic and detailed how these payments were made. But,who is Victor de Aldamathe man who threatened to “pull the cover” and who, for the moment, is already doing so?
Víctor de Aldama is a businessman, a commission agent and, according to investigators, the “corrupting link” of the mask plot. However, this is not the first crime he has committed, he is currently in prison for participation in a hydrocarbon conspiracy in which he is accused of membership in a criminal organization, money laundering and criminal damage. to the public treasury. The total fraud that Victor de Aldama could have committed with the hydrocarbon plot alone is estimated to exceed 180 million euros.
Officially, Aldama was president of Zamora Football Club and advisor to Air Europaa company for which he would have negotiated its rescue. Even if, according to the UCO, its contribution was not decisive.
But that was for the mask fraud conspiracy during the pandemic. Through Koldo Garcia and the former Minister of Transport, Jose Luis Abalos, He put several ministries and regional governments in touch with the company “Management Solutions”, currently involved in the “Koldo case”. According to UCO research, Aldama benefited from being that link or intermediate since, as they calculate, he could have received nearly seven million euros in commissions, this would have been spent on luxury homes and cars.
His relationship with the government went through Koldo Garcia, c.with whom he had his advantages and disadvantages, as demonstrated by certain audios revealed and in which the commissioner admits having “fucked up” by Koldo. In these documents, he also demanded that he “fix this problem” because otherwise “it would all be over.”
Other plots
Víctor de Aldama was also associated in hydrocarbon fraud, and this is why he is currently in prison with his associate -and associate- Claudio Rivas. The person involved in the Koldo affair defrauded more than 180 million VAT on hydrocarbons through a “series of business networks” that they allegedly used to evade taxes and then launder these funds.
As we know, in the rest of the plots, Aldama He also pulled the strings in exchange for a percentage and the companies held on until the strings started to tighten.
For the moment, we know that Aldama He has carried out activities in South America and South Africa. During one of the “business” trips to Mexico, the commission agent and José Luis Ábalos met. Information that the businessman denied since, according to him, they did not coincide, but rather they went together for the former minister to help him conclude agreements between Mexico and the Spanish government.
Request provisional release
Shortly after completing his voluntary declaration for the “Koldo case”, Víctor de Aldama requested provisional release and this was justified by his collaboration with Justice. The commissioner asked Judge Santiago Pedraz, in charge of the hydrocarbons case, to reconsider his procedural situation.
A few hours later, the news came: Víctor Aldama was released with precautionary measures. Anticorruption informed Judge Pedraz of the decision after considering that the commissioner collaborates in the investigation into the plot for which he is in prison.
