The judge of the National Court Santiago Pedraz asked the Prosecutor’s Office on whether he should be admitted to treatment THE complaint filed this Monday by the People’s Party (PP) in which he accuses Illegal financing of the PSOE and thus open a separate article on this topic.
According to legal sources consulted by laSexta, in the case investigated by Pedraz, there is no no indication pointing to alleged illegal financing of the PSOEsince “so far” the investigation focuses solely and exclusively on one alleged VAT fraud on the sale of hydrocarbons.
As part of this file, the commissioner Víctor de Aldama has been in temporary prison since last week accused of the crimes of criminal organization, tax fraud and money laundering. The fraud investigated, according to initial investigations, could exceed 182 million euros.
“In principle, in the Pedraz investigation, there is no reference to the alleged testimony reported by the digital “L’Objectif””, affirm these same sources about the anonymous confidant who would have spoken with the digital. This information talks about delivery of bags of cash worth 90,000 euros which would have been delivered to the national headquarters of the Socialists, on Ferraz Street in Madrid.
The Popular Party has not yet provided the full content of the complaint it filed before the National Court and which is not addressed to a specific person but to the party as a legal entity. However, the sources consulted highlight the difficulties of a judge in admitting a complaint based on anonymous testimonies if these confidants do not voluntarily decide to ratify their declarations in court.
Judge Pedraz could decide the future of the PP complaint “next week”once the prosecution has presented its report specifying whether this new avenue of investigation should be opened. In addition to this question, Pedraz asked the Public Prosecutor’s Office if he should accept the appearance in the hydrocarbon fraud case of the PP, Manos Cleans, Vox and Hazte Oír, all of whom already exercise the popular accusation in the case Koldo. .
“Visos” and “suspicions”
This is the play on words with which the PP launched on Monday its judicial charge against the socialists in which everything is at stake. It did so after having filed this Monday a complaint before the National Court against the socialists, without naming anyone in particular and on the basis of information from an anonymous confidant of the digital newspaper L’Objectif. Likewise, ‘El Español’ spoke of an anonymous confidant close to the commissioner Víctor de Aldama who, according to them, walked freely with Moncloa and around the headquarters of the ministry of José Luis Ábalos.
Without anything, none of this appears in any of the reports from the Central Operational Unit (UCO) of the Civil Guardwhich although it reveals the compensation for the “Koldo plot” to then Minister ÁbalosAt no time does he refer to irregular financing of the PSOE. Indeed, the popular spokesperson himself, Borja Sémper, recognized during the day that the complaint is based on “suspicions” due to anonymous “declarations” of “deliveries of money to Ferraz”.
This judicial front will also have its parliamentary action, since Genoa wants to promote a “complete monograph on corruption” this Wednesday in Congress, even though they have already ruled out a possible motion of censure. Even if we are “more justified than ever, we do not have enough support”, admitted Sémper.
‘And you more’
Meanwhile, the PSOE responds with “and you again”. The first to speak was the government spokesperson and Minister of Education, Pilar Alegría, who recalled the “nearly 30 trials” underway against the PP for corruption in which she acted with “condescension absolute.”
Responses along these lines were repeated, but it was PSOE member Esther Peña who compared the most popular to the “Sopranos” and commented ironically on some issues related to past cases of corruption. “There are still 30 open files, 30 trials where I hope we can finally find out who Mr. Rajoy was,” Peña added on this subject.
