The documents incorporated by the Central Operational Unit (UCO) of the Civil Guard to the investigation into the Koldo affair show that the company that used the land run by Victor de Aldama was the only one to present “in hand” its first offer of masks Ministry of Transport. The 20 million euros reached with State ports it opened the door for those who would come after. The delivery took place while the government had confined the entire population and reduced the presence of civil servants in ministries to a minimum. In the Transport documentation, it also appears that the person responsible for submitting the offer was Aldama himself.
Friday March 20, 2020the Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, appeared from La Moncloa to demand that the population “respect the rules” regarding confinement and reducing travel to the minimum necessary. Spain was about to end its first week of lockdown due to the coronavirus pandemic.
March 20, 2020 was also a key day for Koldo Field and its lucrative mask business, which reached 54 million euros. According to the documentation that the Ministry of Transport provided to the UCO for the investigation into the Koldo affairthat Friday, he arrived at the department he headed Jose Luis Abalos the first offer from Management Solutions – the company led by the leader, Víctor de Aldama -, addressed to Puertos del Estado for a total value of 20 million euros.
For this amount, the conspiracy agreed to deliver approximately eight million masks for a price of 2.5 euros per unit. Remember that the ministerial decree providing for this acquisition was signed on the 20th, which led the UCO to consider a “prior agreement” to reach the contract.
“In hand”
What is new, according to the documentation contained in the Transport audit, is that This offer arrived “in hand”. And this, despite the fact that the government had decreed a confinement which required that any type of travel be reduced to a minimum, especially if there was another telematic method to carry out the management. For the rest of the mask offers presented to the Ministry, they all arrived this way: or by e-mail or by communication by WhatsApp.
In this way, and always according to these archives, someone in the name of Aldama or Aldama himself – who appears in the documents as contact person – used a route that left no trace of any official communication with higher levels of the Ministry. Beyond the registration of entry to the Transport headquarters, which, as the PSOE has already used in this same corruption plot, “must be deleted after 30 days» to comply with the Data Protection Act.
“I’m about to end”
The investigation also reveals that the Aldama offer, which Koldo García brought personally and also “in hand” to Puertos del Estado, was “the worst in economic terms” of the number of people arriving at the ministry in the following days. In fact, as the rest came in, from companies like Innjoo, Stage, Natural Sistems or Shouguan Group (Chinese state-owned company), all offering masks at lower prices, the intrigue She started to get nervous.
These nerves would increase in intensity when the problems of shortage of flights and slot machines in Chinese airports to be able to transfer the equipment. The President of State Ports, Francisco Toledowrote to Álvaro Sánchez Manzanares, Alvaritoformer Secretary of Ports and first political victim of the plot, urging him to solve this transport problem. “If these are the deadlines, I’m about to cancel. The other offer guarantees us a week at half price», he underlined in the communication of March 24.
In Porsche at the ministry
Sarah Anguita And Ana Balbasauthors of the audit at the socialist Ministry of Transport and Sustainable Mobility Oscar Puentedeclared before the judge that Victor de Aldamawhom the judge appoints as commissioner of the Koldo affair “He parked his Porsche at the ministry,” according to sources present at the press release.
The inspectors appeared before the investigating judge Ishmael Moreno that “Aldama has always been at the Ministry and close to the minister”, in reference to the former head of Public Works, Jose Luis Abalos. “He parked his Porsche in the ministry parking lot,” recalled Anguita and Balbás before the magistrate.
The authors of the report put Koldo Garciaassistant of Ábalos, in the center of the target. They describe it “as the destabilizing element within Transport”. In addition, they described that awarding the contract to Management Solutions for the purchase of masks during the worst months of the pandemic “was not justified.”
On the other hand, they emphasize the unpredictability of Koldo’s behavior. According to the sources present in the press release, the inspectors recalled that “in less than an hour, the order for 4 million masks increased to 8 million after Koldo declared: 8 million or nothing“.
Inspectors also confirmed that 440,000 masks purchased from the trading network are being investigated as part of the investigation. Koldo affair which are currently stored in Azuqueca de Henares (Guadalajara).
