EL ESPAÑOL obtained the testimony of this person who acted as confidant of Víctor de Aldama to whom the commissioner of the Koldo affair He told him about his meeting with Nicolas Maduro’s number 2 in the early morning of January 20, 2020.
According to this Aldama confidante, the conversation between the two took place on the same day and just hours after the Venezuelan vice-president violated the EU restriction that prevented her from accessing the Schengen area .
Aldama told in detail to his confidant and trusted person what the hours that Delcy Rodríguez spent in Spanish territory were like and assured that Pedro Sánchez was informed of each of the movements.
The commissioner of Koldo affair He said: “Several suitcases were left behind. We took all of Delcy’s luggage and it was put in a vanette (vanette). They took back fewer suitcases than they took down.”
Aldama did not determine how many suitcases remained in Spain. Koldo García assured in a conversation with this newspaper that the luggage of the Venezuelan vice-president and her companions consisted of 12 packages.
Aldama insisted to his confidant that “suitcases full of money were left in Spain.” Concerned by the facts revealed to her by her interlocutor, the commission agent imprisoned for having defrauded 182 million euros tried to reassure her: “Pedro Sánchez knows it”.
This person revealed to EL ESPAÑOL that Aldama had a personal relationship with Sánchez outside of his own contacts with Ábalos.
According to this testimony in the possession of EL ESPAÑOL, Aldama assured his confidant that the President of the Government was aware at all times of what was happening in the early hours of January 20, 2020.
Indeed, according to Aldama to his interlocutor, “Sánchez forced Ábalos to receive Delcy” even if the Executive already knew that Maduro’s vice-president would not be able to set foot on Spanish soil.
The UCO report, published this week by EL ESPAÑOL, already showed a WhatsApp from Ábalos to Sánchez to inform him of his intention to meet Delcy Rodríguez. The president of the government responded with a message saying “good”.
It is not known until now if there were other messages or a call between Sánchez and Ábalos, since the Civil Guard discovered the latter. WhatsApp by a screenshot that the Minister of Transport sent to Koldo. The counselor replied: “How much I love you.”
What the testimony of the person Aldama spoke with suggests is that, once Sánchez discovered that Delcy Rodríguez could not set foot on Spanish soil, the President of the Government charged Ábalos with resolving the problem. that he himself had created.
Aldama revealed that this person who was his confidant was “the first to get on the plane.” The commissioner of Koldo affair It was he who served as a link between Delcy Rodríguez and Ábalossince he had a friendly relationship with Maduro’s number two.
Until now, it was not known who was the “third man” who boarded the Sky Valet Falcon 900, on which the Venezuelan government delegation was traveling. It was known that José Luis Ábalos and Koldo García had done it with another companion. However, it never appeared that it was Aldama.
The revelations made by Aldama to his confidant reveal not only that he also boarded the plane, but that he did so first to speak with Delcy Rodríguez. Koldo García and Ábalos followed him.
Félix Ramón Plasencia González traveled with Delcy Rodríguez -Minister of Tourism and Foreign Trade-, Kenny Antonio Diaz Rosario -director general of the Vice-Presidency-, Alejandra Carolina Bastidas González -director general of Communication and Institutional Relations of the Vice-Presidency-, Youssef Abou Nassif Smaïli -associate of the vice-president- and Jorge Andrés Jiménez Ochoa -businessman-.
Delcy Rodríguez’s flight landed at 12:30 a.m. on January 20, 2020. An hour later, and after this first meeting on the plane, the Vice President of Venezuela was accompanied by Aldama, Ábalos and Koldo García “to the room of authorities” where the meeting continued.
Aldama told his confidant how this process happened and that it was later that “several suitcases full of money” were unloaded and left in Spain.
Version agreed with Maduro
The commissioner assured that The Spanish and Venezuelan governments had already agreed on a version of events in case images or videos of the suitcases containing the tickets are published and someone discovers their contents.
“If they chase us away, they will say that the money is intended to buy food and medicine for Venezuela,” Aldama explained to the person he trusts the most and with whom EL ESPAÑOL spoke.
He also confirmed that He was with Delcy Rodríguez until 8:20 a.m., when Maduro’s vice president took a flight to Doha (Qatar). with its general director and definitively left Spanish soil after almost eight hours.
These revelations from Aldama took place just hours after his meeting with Delcy Rodríguez and when he had not yet slept. The commissioner, according to the testimony of his confidant, was tired and worried.
Aldama, Ábalos and Koldo already feared that their meeting with Delcy Rodríguez would be made public, as happened a few days later. ““They caught me getting on and off the private plane.”Aldama said to this person. “We will be on all televisions.”
Despite the concern that Aldama expressed to his confidant about this possibility, the commissioner ended the conversation by assuring that he was calm because Pedro Sánchez knew everything.
Aldama never revealed to his confidant who the recipients of these “suitcases full of money” remained in Spain from the Venezuelan government. Nor did he explain to him why he insisted that “Pedro Sánchez knew.”
The commissioner has been in temporary prison since last Friday after the judge of the National Court Santiago Pedraz accepted the request of the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office.
Víctor de Aldama was arrested on Monday by the Civil Guard when he was accused of having co-directed, with Claudio Rivas Ruiz-Capillas, a network that defrauded 182 million euros through hydrocarbon companies .
