Víctor de Aldama asked for “money for the PSOE” to businessmen who wanted access to their network of contacts within government. As collateral he showed his photos with Pedro Sánchez.
EL ESPAÑOL spoke with a businessman who acknowledges that the commission agent in the Koldo affair asked him to pay commissions have access to senior officials of the PSOE and the Executive.
He modus operandi of the commission agent was collect part of the money via transfers to your companies and another in cash. The bags of tickets were normally delivered to his personal office on Antonio Maura Street in Madrid.
“I know he also took money from Ferraz,” this businessman linked to Aldama’s activities told EL ESPAÑOL. “If you wanted access to the government, the only link was him“.
The money for the PSOE “was not requested directly”, but “This was done through Aldama” and he was responsible for distributing it after keeping its corresponding percentage.
According to this businessman, this is not an isolated case since Aldama “asked many people for money” to give access to members of Pedro Sánchez’s government.
1.5 million from Villafuel
In the case of Villafuel, the hydrocarbon operator paid more than 1.5 million euros in commissions to Víctor de Aldama to obtain the license.
This newspaper exclusively published that the commission agent had received 400,000 euros in cash to pay for negotiations with the government.
To this amount we must add more than half a million that the villa in La Línea de la Concepción cost Claudio Rivas (Cádiz) in Ábalos. The Minister of Transport at the time, as demonstrated by the Civil Guard, chose this house and Aldama organized the purchase.
Subsequently, when Ábalos ceased to be minister in the summer of 2021 and Villafuel’s license was initially refused, Rivas orders the expulsion of the former PSOE organizational secretary.
Aldama also received for these efforts more than 600,000 euros via company transfers on their behalf which operated with Banco Caminos.
Even though Ábalos left the government, Villafuel finally obtained the license in 2022. Payments to Aldama from companies linked to Rivas continued until that date.
Currently, Aldama and Rivas share cell number 14 of module 4 of Soto de Real prison. Judge Santiago Pedraz accuses them of having defrauded at least 182 million euros through hydrocarbon companies.
Photos with Sánchez
To convince businessmen, Aldama made available to them all kinds of evidence to demonstrate his influence at Moncloa and in the ministries.
He showed photos with Pedro Sánchez and Ábalos, took out of his pocket a so-called diplomatic card of a member of the government or made calls with the hands-free kit activated in front of the businessmen so that they could listen to the conversation.
As EL ESPAÑOL published, Aldama was on Ferraz’s noble floor during Pedro Sánchez’s last electoral victory.
On November 10, 2019, the commissioner entered the PSOE headquarters, shared the space and spoke with the party leadership and took a photo with the President of Government.
As EL ESPAÑOL learned, Aldama sent the image with Sánchez to several friends and associates. “Look who I’m with,” he said in one message. In another conversation, he said: “I hope you voted for friends. »
Aldama also attended political events and He was “one more” in the PSOE. One of these gatherings was the one organized for the presentation of “Pepu” Hernández as candidate in the socialist primaries for mayor of Madrid.
This event, organized at the Teatro de La Latina on February 3, 2019, The commissioner sat a few rows behind the President of the Government..
The newspaper The world This Saturday he exclusively published a photo of Aldama and Sánchez after the event, taken by Koldo García.
The Central Operational Unit of the Civil Guard highlights Aldama as “the corrupting link” of a conspiracy that worked at least in the purchase of masks during the pandemic and in the hydrocarbon sector.
A confidant of the commissioner assured EL ESPAÑOL that “Aldama had a direct relationship with Pedro Sánchez, he went to Moncloa as well as to the Ministry.”
This person in whom Aldama trusts the most told this newspaper that the commissioner “had meetings with the advisors of the president of the government.”
