The businessman and commission agent Víctor de Aldama, prosecuted for alleged corruption, like the former Minister of Transport José Luis Ábalos and his former advisor Koldo García, for public contracts for the delivery of medical supplies to Spain amounting to of 53 million euros, highlighted this Wednesday during an interview in ‘Herrera en Cope’ with the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, as an expert on the allegedly criminal operation of the minister of his government and number three of the PSOE until his dismissal. both positions, José Luis Ábalos.
“If Mr. Sánchez didn’t call Mr. Ábalos six or seven times a day… he consulted him on everything. Mr. Ábalos was everything. The president had a confidence beyond him, just as I must say, because I have seen and verified, that the president was wrong about him when he was loyal to him until the last day. “Sánchez, in your opinion, should he have been aware of this?” asked Carlos Herrera. “I want to understand that yes.” “Have any of these rewards been beneficial to you?” the interviewer asked. “I don’t know, because I’m not there yet. I don’t know if he knew or could say that all of this had reached the president.
Aldama was referring to the payments that he himself declared last Thursday before Judge Ismael Moreno, during his statement as investigator, which he handed over to the organizing secretary of the PSOE, Santos Cerdán, of 15,000 euros or to the PSOE chief of staff. Minister of Finance, María Jesús Montero, of 25,000 euros, as well as more than 600,000 euros granted over time to Ábalos, as well as different cash payments. and kind to his advisor, Koldo García.
Aldama argued that these were not “bribes,” but rather payments intended to maintain his privileged position as the companies he worked for were given preference in public administration. “I want to clarify. I didn’t bribe anyone. Bribing someone means I give them money and ask for it. This was not the case. I’m guilty of paying a civil servant, obviously, but if I didn’t pay, they wouldn’t continue to give it to me. At the end of the day, I am a businessman, the corrupt is not me, the corrupt is the politician. That I did wrong and did harm by not reporting it? Obviously, but in the end I have a series of expenses, a series of structures and I manage a series of people who, at that time, obviously, what I wanted was to start a business so that my life could be fulfilled. goes better. Anyone who knows me can say that what I earned, I put it in places where I helped people, like the Zamora Club, which was totally in deficit and every year I put money into it. “money so that it does not disappear and to keep these employees and what is the city of Zamora, which is aging,” he said.
“I got in trouble for telling the truth. Because it will be a crime and I don’t know if it will ever land me in prison, but I told the truth, they are not going to say or correct anything that comes out of me, because one way or on the other, they forced me to say. I do not understand, knowing myself perfectly and knowing me as they knew me, that: first, they deny me; secondly, that they say I didn’t do it and thirdly that they knew perfectly well what I had. Either that makes me understand that they are above good and evil, or that they don’t talk to each other, because I don’t understand. “Either this or this is the country of the tambourine,” declared the businessman, acquitted last Thursday of a case of alleged VAT fraud on hydrocarbons.
In this, instructed by the judge of the National Court Santiago Pedraz, he declared and his appearance is secret. He clarified that he was collaborating with the anti-corruption prosecutor’s office, providing information on this case and on the Koldo case of alleged pandemic contract commissions, since both have the same prosecutor.
Agreement with Anticorruption
Aldama himself explained live that he had an “agreement” of “absolute collaboration” with the prosecution. Precisely, last week, the anti-corruption prosecutor supported his release, requested by his defense, carried out by Antonio Choclán, because he admitted two crimes of corruption for which he had not been investigated until ‘then, understanding that this demonstrated his intention to collaborate with Justice.
According to De Aldama, he already provided Anticorruption with information regarding the statement he made in court that Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodríguez wanted to meet with the state attorney general (at the time María José Segarra) upon his arrival in Spain. He was referring to the trip that the Chavista president made despite European Union sanctions and that Aldama organized, as he said, with Minister Ábalos.
Aldama was also questioned in Cope about information from the media “The Objective”, in which it was indicated that two of his collaborators had taken money in bags to the PSOE headquarters. He denied having financed the PSOE through the hydrocarbon sector, as the information indicates and declared that on this subject he had also brought the information to the prosecutor’s office: “It is not a partner, I fully recognize the person doing it. She’s a woman, I’m not going to talk about who she is because we’re going to provide evidence to the prosecutor’s office and, as I said before, in every one of my interviews the priority goes to the prosecutor’s office because that this is how it is necessary because the agreement we have is an agreement of absolute collaboration. I don’t know why. This person says that he has taken or is trying to link the financing of hydrocarbons to the party when this is absolutely uncertain. It has nothing to do with Hidrocarburos Villafuel so they imprisoned us with any type of financing in the party.
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