The alleged commissioner of the mask plot, Víctor de Aldama, declared Thursday before the judge of the National Court that the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, had “invited” him to the rally of La Latina (Madrid) because he wanted ” thank you for his work.” “in matters of railway business he was doing in Mexico, according to LaSexta legal sources.
“They forced me to go to the PSOE event because Sánchez wanted to meet me and talk to him. (José Luis Ábalos) and Koldo (García) told me to go,” he said . Regarding the famous photograph with the president, he stressed that “the photo becomes a place reserved with the president, Koldo” and him. “The president thanks you for what you are doing,” he added, specifying that ““The photo was not accidental.”.
This was stated at the start of the interrogation, which began shortly after 10:00 a.m. The businessman, currently in prison for the Hydrocarbons affair, voluntarily appeared before the judge in the Koldo affair, who is investigating him as the “corrupting core” of the mask purchase plot which would have been designed at the Ministry of Transportation of José Luis Abalos. .
Among other topics, Aldama also spoke about the controversial trip of Venezuela’s Vice President, Delcy Rodríguez, to Spain in 2020. The commissioner assured the judge that the The government “was aware” of Rodríguez’s visit before this happened, claiming that the Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande-Marlaska and Ábalos, “knew it”.
He even claimed that the former Minister of Transport had spoken with the Venezuelan vice-president. via Aldama mobile phones. Regarding Marlaska, he said that it was the Minister of the Interior who ordered the creation of a “safety zone” so that he, Ábalos and Koldo García could board Delcy Rodríguez’s plane.
Furthermore, he argued that it was Sánchez who “decided” that Koldo García was an advisor to Ábalos. In fact, he indicated that it was Koldo himself who declared that he “had a relationship” with Sánchez and the organizational secretary of the PSOE, Santos Cerdán. Furthermore, he confirmed that he met the former advisor through his brother, who was Ábalos’ driver.
On the other hand, he stated that he had met on several occasions with the third vice-president and Minister of Ecological Transition, Teresa Ribera, as well as Javier Hidalgo for projects to revitalize Empty Spain in which the Wakalua company participated. He claimed that Begoña Gómez participated in some of these meetings.
