The first vice-president of the government, María Jesús Montero, assured the Senate that puts “hands on fire” for the organizing secretary of the PSOE, Santos Cerdanand by his chief of staff, Carlos Morenowho will take legal action against Victor de Aldama for their accusations without evidence.
At the beginning of the session of the commission of inquiry into the Koldo case in the Senate, in response to the first questions asked by the senator of the UPN, María Caballero, the Minister of Finance and deputy general secretary of the PSOE clearly indicated that she was I am not going to comment on the statement made at the National Court last Thursday. “of a confessed criminal.” This is what De Aldama, a businessman linked to the alleged corruption plot, was referring to. who said he gave money in hand in the cafeterias of Cerdán and Moreno, without having yet provided evidence.
Furthermore, he argued that Aldama was in preventive detention precisely because investigations opened by the Tax Administration, both in the case of hydrocarbon fraud and in the so-called Koldo affair, which investigates illegal commissions when purchasing masks during the coronavirus pandemic.
Montero recalled that De Aldama testified as an accused and therefore without obligation to tell the truthwhich helped her end her pre-trial detention, for which, according to the Vice-President of the Government, “she told a series of lies directed against honorable people.” Moreno is her “full confidence” and a “magnificent official”, which is why it is “a scandal that he mentioned her” and for whom she puts her hand to the fire, Montero reiterated.
Later, regarding Cerdán, he repeated the expression: “I too put my hand in the fire.” The minister also stated that He “never” met either Víctor de Aldama or another investigator, Koldo García.and that he did not know the first and would not have recognized it if they coincided anyway, and that he knew the second, as an advisor to the former minister José Luis Ábalos, but that He had never had any relations with him.
