Koldo García, who was an advisor to Transport Minister José Luis Ábalos, informed the Interior Ministry’s number two, Rafael Pérez, that Venezuela’s Vice President Delcy Rodríguez was going to stay in a luxury chalet in an exclusive area. of Madrid, surrounded by mansions of great fortune. For his part, he sorted out the details by informing the general director of Coordination and Studies, José Antonio Rodríguez González, the commissioner known as “Lenin”.
This is what reveals the chain of messages that Koldo García exchanged with Pérez on the afternoon of January 19, 2020, when the Chavista vice-president, banned from entering the territory of the European Union, would have must have already been on the run. It should be remembered that the advisor approached the Secretary of State to organize the visit after Ábalos received authorization from the President of Government, Pedro Sánchez. She told him she would go to Spain in three days and he said “fine.”
On January 19 at 1:44 p.m., Pérez informed Koldo García: “I have already spoken with José Antonio, our director of the Coordination and Studies Office, to put him on prevention until they receive the communication from the Affairs foreign. Either way, send me the information you have here.
And Koldo García, after thanking him, sent him a photo of the plane in which Maduro’s number 2 was traveling with the numbering visible, the indication that “you will have to enter through the authorities” (it is understood that at the airport) and the arrival time, which was scheduled for 11:00 p.m.
He added the address where he would be staying. A 429 square meter house located on the corner of Velázquez Street and available for possible rental at a price between 1,200 and 2,200 euros per night. “The March family and Florentino Pérez live in a security zone. “It’s a chalet,” Koldo specifies in his message.
The photo of the plane where Delcy Rodríguez was traveling that Koldo García sent to number 2 of the Interior
According to the Civil Guard, the real promoter of Delcy Rodríguez’s trip to Spain was the commissioner of the plot, Víctor de Aldama, who maintained a fluid relationship with her and drew up a whole diary of her days in Spain which began with a visit to the doctor and ended up in Fitur, after passing through some of the businessmen with whom he had relationships at the time, such as the owner of Ciudad Real airport or the director of Levantina Engineering and Construction.
The role of Aldama
He had even sent her an invitation letter as if it had been written by Ábalos, as concluded by the forensic examination of the document found on Aldama’s laptop and sent to Delcy Rodríguez in a secure messaging application which they both used.
According to the UCO, he “acted as interlocutor between Spain and Venezuela, with Ábalos and Delcy as interlocutors.” It was between the two of them. Moreover, when Ábalos declared to Koldo García that the president of the government “did not oppose” the visit of the Chavista vice-president, he celebrated by responding “how much I love you”.
As we know, the visit did not go as planned because Delcy Rodríguez had a requirement that prevented him from entering community territory. As the Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, explained last week in the Senate, his number 2 informed him of this circumstance when he became aware of it, the same day, while the vice-president was flying to Spain.
He then called Ábalos and warned him that Rodríguez could not set foot on Spanish soil. After spending the night in the airport transit area, he leaves the next morning for Doha.
