The People’s Party will call the businesswoman Carmen Pano to the commission of inquiry into what is called Koldo affair to explain why he brought 90,000 euros to the PSOE headquarters in Ferraz, as revealed by EL ESPAÑOL this Thursday. This newspaper was able to confirm this from official sources from the formation of Alberto Núñez Feijóo.
According to these sources, “yesterday, at 9 a.m., Aldama spoke. Yesterday, at 2 p.m., Juan Lobato resigned. Yesterday, at 5 p.m., Pedro Sánchez’s brother was indicted. It seems complicated to follow a rhythm like this one and However, “Thursday begins in the same way, with a new scandal”.
According to the exclusivity of this newspaper, Pano is the person who delivered a bag containing this sum of money to the central offices of the PSOE in Madrid on the orders of Victor de Aldama. The businesswoman herself confirmed to this newspaper that she was the one who hid her identity during the interview conducted by The objective and who then ratified his testimony before a notary.
“I took the money to the second floor in October 2020. I declared it before a notary and I will declare it before the judge when he summons me,” assures Carmen Pano to EL ESPAÑOL. From now on she will also be summoned to the Upper House to explain the reasons and circumstances of this remittance of money, if the funds had to do with the payment of a favor and if their destination was the irregular financing of the PSOE.
At the time, the PP had already filed a complaint for illegal financing against the PSOE, which was archived for lack of additional evidence compared to that already published in the press.
“If a businesswoman says she brought cash to the Socialist Party headquarters,” insists this PP spokesperson, “it is our obligation to listen to what she has to say, in the event that criminal offenses are committed.
The 90,000 euros were transferred to the PSOE headquarters in “two installments” and Pano exclusively admits to EL ESPAÑOL that he transported the money in “a plastic bag inserted into another paper bag from a large store”.
Carmen Pano says that she does not know the final destination of the money she brought to Ferraz, since according to her version, “it was Víctor de Aldama” who told her to take it and she does not know who collected the bags from the PSOE headquarters.
For the People’s Party, “the only thing that is certain is that we have a government which is immersed up to its neck in corruption and which no longer knows which front to attack among its many fronts”.
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According to Pano’s version, he entered the PSOE headquarters and declared that he was “in the name of Víctor de Aldama”. They didn’t ask him for any identification, he went up to the second floor and a man was waiting for him who asked him if it was in the businessman’s name. She nodded and handed him the bags.
The businesswoman assures that her presence in this factory only lasted “a few seconds” and that barely “five minutes” passed between her entry and exit from the PSOE headquarters.
“If a judge calls me to testify, I will tell the truth,” Pano told EL ESPAÑOL. The businesswoman assures that she will ratify before the National Court what she has already expressed before a notary in a sworn declaration.
Aldama could not transport the money and his driver was also not operational. Jose Albeirowho was the one in charge of the Koldo Field to collect and then transport the tickets.
The money came, according to Pano, from the hydrocarbon company Villafuel. Carmen Pano was the person who served as liaison between Aldama and Claudio Rivasbusiness owner who wanted the operator license and introduced them during the pandemic.
Víctor de Aldama, in his first journalistic interview carried out this Wednesday in Cope, revealed that he had identified Carmen Pano: “I have no proof of bags of money in Ferraz. They say he is an associate, but he is not an associate. . She’s a woman, I know exactly who she is. We will provide evidence to the prosecution. “It has nothing to do with hydrocarbons or Villafuel.”
Pano, for his part, explains to EL ESPAÑOL that Claudio Rivas, still in prison for allegedly defrauding the Treasury of 182 million with Aldama, “gave him the money to give to Víctor”.
The businesswoman claims to have “received threats” from Aldama and Rivas before their arrest on October 7.
The villa in La Línea de la Concepción (Cádiz) that you liked Jose Luis Abalos The company Have Got Time SL purchased it as a tenant in June 2021. This hydrocarbon marketing company was managed by Leonor Gonzálezdaughter of Carmen Pano.
Aldama told the National Court judge that they had known each other for 20 years and were “boyfriends in a relationship of two or three years.”
He also testified before the judge Ishmael Moreno that he did not carry out “any management for Villafuel”. Have Got Time SL began operating in 2021, months after meeting Juan Ignacio Díaz Bidartchief of staff of the Minister of Industry Reyes Marotoon December 28, 2020.
Villafuel finally obtained the hydrocarbon operator license in September 2022. A year earlier, its application was rejected. Subsequently, Ábalos left the chalet in La Línea de Concepción when he could not pay the rent of 2,500 euros per month.
