The tentacles of “Koldo” affair They access the market for purchasing and selling hydrocarbons. According to prison records Victor de Aldama, plot agentand his partner, Claudio Rivasunderline “a complex corporate structure” linked to the VAT fraud fuels that the energy sector has been denouncing for years.
What we already call “fuel parcel” is a “criminal organization” who “designed, implemented and operated a parallel commercial structure which he used to perfect the laundering of the funds generated”, according to order of the Central Investigating Court number 5.
According to the investigation carried out by the UCO, “funds of criminal origin were transferred to their bank accounts, mainly from supplier accounts. Since the money comes from the suppliers, the commercial companies which are used to lower the price of hydrocarbons with the VAT that they will not payall money transferred came from the allegedly defrauded charges.”
The complex business structure would consist of the company Still growingas well as others whose corporate purpose places them in the hydrocarbon sector, headed by the oil wholesaler Villafuel SL, still active on the list CNMC (National Markets and Competition Commission) of oil operators. This is not the case within the Tax Agency, REDEF (Register of Tax Deposit Extractors).
It also appears Canary Islands Fuel Companywhich went bankrupt last December; Salamanca Fuel Centercurrently in liquidation; Jalón-Plaza Fuels; Obaoil 3000 SL, Casmar Hidrocarburos SL; Espaeventos SL And Skyward Tech SL.
All of them “developed a commercial operation which allowed them, between 2022 and 2024, to complete crimes against the Public Treasury” whose fraud was initially estimated at more than 182 million euros, according to the order.
Even “transfers abroad have been identified for an amount of nearly 74 million euros to Portugal, Colombia and China,” he adds.
The judge also describes that “the corporate structure was designed and structured in such a way that Claudio Rivas and Víctor de Aldama, who held general power over it, were veiled and apparently dissociated from it.”
Villafuel
The company SL still growingcreated by a business incubator in the name of Vanessa Durán, was delivered to María Luisa Rivas, who in turn bought Villafuel SLthe wholesale oil operator who had to demonstrate equity of up to 3 million euros.
To this end, when it was created on February 23, 2020, it capitalized it to the tune of 15,000 euros, and one year later, on February 12, 2021, it increased its capital to 580,000 euros. Despite everything, he needed more money and that is why, in July 2023, he obtained a loan from the financial institution. Abanca for an amount of two and a half million euros, according to the order.
Now, once the plot was discovered, the judge points out that “with regard to Villafuel SL, the investigation revealed that it is a company created to maintain the title of operator, a title that authorized to the criminal organization operate on the market through the instrumental structure of suppliers and thus be able to perfect fraud.”
“It must be emphasized that, without this title, the fraud operation investigated, as it was carried out, would not have taken place,” he continues.
For this reason, and “although it had the appearance of a solvent company and had two registered offices (they only used one), at the time of carrying out the entry procedures and recording They only had two workersreaching a maximum of three workers simultaneously”, adds the judicial text.
