The businessman Víctor de Aldama admitted in his statement before the National Court that former minister José Luis Ábalos and his advisor, Koldo García, received commissions from him for the awarding of the mask market and detailed how these payments were made, recognizing that they were always in cash envelopes that were even handed over to the Ministry of Transport.
The alleged commissioner of the Koldo plot gave figures on the commissions he claimed to have paid to Ábalos and his advisor. In fact, Aldama assured that there was a conflict with them to demand these commissions. going so far as to tell them “I am not the Bank of Spain and you are already doing too much” facing demands from both to receive money from the businessman. As Aldama explains, thanks to the mask contract from which he claims to have received more than five million euros in commissions, Both pocketed 350,000 euros in cash (Ábalos 250,000 euros and Koldo 100,000) as well as other payments like the apartment in the Plaza de España for the former minister’s partner at the time or “money for things” to Koldo García on which he did not give further details .
Furthermore, he clarified that payments were always made in cash in envelopes. Some of them were received by Koldo’s brother, Joseba García, who allegedly received 11,500 euros from Aldama to give them to him. The businessman also pointed out that on several occasions these payments were not made in Spain, but in the Dominican Republic, with Koldo’s brother, according to him, as the courier of these payments.
Aldama also assured that some payments took place to the Ministry of Transportwhere he said he sometimes went with envelopes full of money to pay these commissions.
Aldama claims to have paid 15,000 euros to Santos Cerdán
On the other hand, the commission agent declared before the judge that he made a payment of 15,000 euros to Santos Cerdánorganizational secretary of the PSOE, in an envelope which would have arrived via Koldo García. The payments which, according to the businessman, were made because he was in the middle of bidding for construction.
According to Aldama, Koldo told him that there were quotas in this area and that Basque specifically belonged to Cerdán. And the payment, he explained, was made in a bar in Ferraz, near the headquarters of the Socialist Party, where the three were said to have been and Koldo gave him the money.
Sources around Santos Cerdán in conversation with laSexta, They categorically deny any association with the businessman since they assure that the socialist does not know him at all. and, therefore, “was never with him.”
