The main person responsible for corruption plot that affects the PSOE for what we call Koldo affair, Victor Aldamaassures that the Navarrese socialist, Santos Cerdansecretary of the party organization and godfather of the accused Koldo Garciaaccused of 15,000 euros in bribes. He also indicated that the Navarrese Koldo García received 100,000 euros in the same way.
In his voluntary declaration before the Judge Ismael Moreno assured that the current Minister of Territorial Policy and Democratic Memory, the the socialist Ángel Víctor Torresasked him a commission of 50,000 eurosbeing president of the Canary Islands, in the middle of a pandemic, in a purchase of masks.
Likewise, he told the judge that Santos Cerdán, today number 3 of the PSOEcame to receive 15,000 euros commission for the bites and they were given to him in a bar located opposite the PSOE headquarters in Ferraz Street in Madrid.
Likewise, Aldama said that It was Koldo. who conveyed to him the request for the aforementioned bite and left a sentence for posterity. Aldama told PSOE leaders: “stop asking me for money that I am not the Bank of Spain”.
Cerdán’s reaction to the conspiracy mastermind’s accusations was to deny the majority. “I I didn’t receive any moneythe President of the Government does not receive any money (…) this is absolutely false“, he said in the halls of Congress, in statements to the media, a few minutes after Víctor de Aldama’s statement became known. “It’s false, we didn’t receive any money, This is absolutely false,” Cerdán stressed.
In addition, denied knowing or having met “personally” with From Aldamaas well as the fact that the head of the Executive, Pedro Sánchez, has “no relationship with this man”.
There was also an immediate reaction within the PP of Navarre. Your president, Javier Garciaa, demanded that the PSN give public explanations. “This is unacceptable that the PSN remains silent when a scandal of this magnitude directly affects someone who has been a key figure in its organization. The lack of explanations not only weakens the PSOE, but also harms the image of Navarre, whose community is represented by this party in the government,” he stressed.
The leader of the PP of Navarre also criticized the PSOE’s attempts to discredit Aldama’s statements instead of providing clear answers. “When all they do is attack the messengerInstead of opening themselves to an investigation, they demonstrating his nervousness and inability be transparent to citizens,” he added.
As we will remember, Santos Cerdán is the one who took Koldo García to Ferraz and introduced it into the circles of power from Navarre. According to Aldama’s statement, Koldo’s appointment as advisor to former minister Ábalos had the consent of President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez.
We must also not forget that they were Santos Cerdán and Koldo Garcia two of the most loyal collaborators of Pedro Sánchez during the primary process of the PSOE in 2017, both being part of what was called “the Peugeot clan‘. Koldo became ‘depositary of guarantees of Sánchez arriving to spend a night in Ferraz with the boxes of documentation. From there he was directly appointed advisor to Ábalos.
THE Civil Guard investigation which works in the summary of the case reveals that there was dozens of calls from Cerdán to Koldo between 2020 and 2023.
