The plot of Koldo affair He used 14 civil guards assigned to the fight against terrorism for his personal gain. The guards, designated to combat jihadist terrorism, were responsible for ensuring the safety of Víctor de Aldama and other members of the accused group. Other guards intervened mules launder money by depositing certain amounts into accounts indicated by the commander linked to the alleged criminal organization. It was his own colleagues at the UCO who discovered all these activities and recorded them in a recent report to the judge. The suspicion is that most of them were victims of Koldo’s plot commander who took advantage of them from his position as superior. Information sources from the Civil Guard also warn that the actions of the guards under the command of the detained commander are not unusual in the treatment of informants, but the UCO will investigate to the end.
Rubén Villalba, the commander of Civil Guard reported by the UCO as part of the plot of the Koldo affair He used his subordinates as workers for the criminal plot, with the knowledge of at least one of his superiors in the Civil Guard Information Directorate. This is stated in the penultimate UCO report, which lists from 1 to 14 all the anti-terrorist guards involved in the case. Additionally, the wiretaps show that someone above the rank of commander, perhaps lieutenant colonel or even higher, and the rest of the 14, knew that the UCO was investigating Koldo Field while working for the leaders of the alleged criminal organization.
These guards knew that their colleagues at the UCO were investigating Koldo’s plot, and more specifically Víctor de Aldama, because two years previously they had granted the current inmate the status of confident include it in the information system. Thus, being a confidant under their control, they would be alerted if Víctor de Aldama was under investigation by other units. This is what happened since this alert sounded almost half a dozen times, even if the anti-terrorist guards decided not to communicate it to the UCO investigators.
Guards feared being involved
Although Civil Guard sources maintain that a large part of these 14 guards who carried out different types of work for the Koldo plot did not break the law, since they would be involved in their own tasks to guard a confidant, the truth is that the telephone interventions They reveal that they were afraid of being involved in shady business.
Thus, one of the guards identified by the UCO as “agent 2” speaks to another: “If anyone asked a question (about Víctor Aldama) because if he does an audit and we…”. Rubén Villalba himself, the commander, admits to his boss: “I, boss, fell into psychosis, I saw myself in prison with a baby on the way.”
What is most surprising is to hear the superior of Rubén Villalba, until now the only civil guard detained, express himself in these terms: “Well they gave us money and we used it for service…well…and if we did anything or anything for encourage their criminal activity… ” and Commander Rubén Villalba responds: “I had no knowledge of it until you told me Rubén, stay away from everything. “Sources from the Civil Guard Information Service believe that the command was doing a “damage count” after becoming aware of the situation in which the commander had put them.
They cleaned the bus cars
What the guards feared was being involved, as happened to their commander, in Koldo’s plot, since they were carrying out searches in the cars of Víctor de Aldama, his wife and others. Scans for bugs in the cars of people who were under investigation by the UCO and which also coincided with the meeting dates of members of the Koldo conspiracy.
The security tasks of the members of the Koldo conspiracy took place on several occasions, as evidenced by telephone interventions. Then “Agent 1” says, “With what justification do we sweep this car?” Agent 2 responds: “For him, for the psychosis of La Gomina (the nickname they gave to Víctor Aldama) apart from his ego and by selling that he has access to state security forces and agencies.
They bought the field phones
Another compromising clue for the guards that the UCO is investigating is the purchase of “clean” phones for the plot. Counterterrorism guards gave Víctor de Aldama and others cell phones with secure cards so they could not be tapped. The explanation is simple but terrible: the guards gave “secure phones” to the people being investigated, and the conspiracy used these phones so that the UCO would not intercept them. Eventually, anti-terrorism guards destroyed the phones to leave no trace.
This is what emerges from the exchanges between the detained commander and one of his superiors: “There were times when he wanted two or three phones a month, and the ugliest thing, Rubén, is: what are we doing buying phones from this guy?”», reproaches the superior to the commander of the Civil Guard who would have been incriminated in the Koldo plot.
Guards transformed into “mules”
The most important thing is that the UCO discovered during its investigation that the detained commander, Rubén Villalba, received during this period more than 140,000 euros of unknown origin. The UCO manages to identify the agent 5 who transferred more than 6,000 euros to his superior’s accounts, which will then be returned in cash by Rubén himself.
According to the UCO in its revealing report, Rubén Villalba, the commander of the Koldo affair He eventually confessed that he had received numerous cash payments from the conspiracy for his services, including from Víctor Aldama.
Then, according to the report, “Commander Rubén directly or indirectly ordered agents numbers 4, 5 and 7 to deposit money into accounts titled by himself.” So the guards became mules of money, moving money from one place to another and avoiding its tracking.
Sources close to the case assure that the guards acted within the framework of their duties in the treatment of the informants, but they assure that they will carry out the investigation to the end and that all responsibilities incurred by the 14 guards from different jobs will be purged. if that were the case.
