“We know he can’t bring anything,” says one of the government’s most senior members of the statement Victor de Aldama, commission agent Koldo affairin which he accused ministers and socialist leaders of collecting commissions.
The Socialists reacted this Thursday to these accusations by denying the facts, showing that it is a ““low price declaration” because it is done to obtain the provisional release and above all, they explain that the businessman does not provide any concrete evidence.
A detailed reading of the Government’s statements leads it to confirm that, on the contrary, Aldama attributes specific criminal acts to Jose Luis Abalos and to his right, Koldo Garcia. And that these accusations coincide well with the data from the judicial investigation.
That is to say that Pedro Sanchez, The government and the PSOE will now have to face their political responsibility because this alleged corruption plot was born within them, but they claim to remain calm in the face of the criminal implications of other ministers and socialist leaders. And obviously from the president of the government himself.
If, on the other hand, Aldama could prove any of his accusations, it would ruin Sánchez’s political future and everything else. I would jump in the air. Because this would amount to attributing crimes to members of the Government and, moreover, it would break the speech of the President of the Government based on the perimeterization of the criminal responsibility of Ábalos, former Minister of Transport and head of the PSOE organization.
Aldama, to Ábalos and Koldo: “I am not the Bank of Spain and you are already going too far”
The version of Sánchez, the government and the PSOE is to appear calm and call him “liar” and “fabulator” in Aldama. “My government is a clean government; We are calm because as far as I am concerned, my Current government“, to my organization, to the PSOE, everything this man said is categorically false,” Pedro Sánchez said this Thursday.
“Don’t worry Mr. Sánchez, you will have proof of everything what was said”, declared the businessman a few hours later, when the judge of the National Court Santiago Pedraz accepted his provisional release, with precautionary measures.
The socialists contrast this part of Aldama’s accusations against Ábalos and Koldo García with the statements about different government members or party leaders. The former rely on evidence, as proven by the Civil Guard report, the prosecution’s brief and the reasoned statement of the investigating judge, while the latter currently lack evidence or proof.
For example, the head of the PSOE organization, Santos Cerdan, He insists that he does not know Aldama, that he has never met him or that it makes no sense that he received an envelope with money in a bar in front of the PSOE headquarters . “He doesn’t even know him when passing in the corridor, he hasn’t seen him in his life,” explain the socialists.
The official version given by the party leadership is that it received information a few weeks ago indicating that on the eve of the PSOE Federal Congress – which takes place between November 29 and December 1 – an accusation of this type would be made public. from Aldama.
The PSOE, which claims to have launched a complaint against Aldama and against “other parties who reproduce the accusations and try to take advantage of them”, he said he found inconsistencies in the businessman’s statements. For example, when we talk about CNI under the orders of the Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande Marlaskaand they explain that Aldama fantasizes and seeks an agreement with the prosecution to be able to get out of prison.
The first vice-president, Maria Jesus Monteroexpressly supported his chief of staff and right-hand man, Carlos Morenoaccused by Aldama of having received money from the conspiracy.
“Absurdity”
Concerning the President of Government, Moncloa sources maintain that he does not know Aldama, beyond the photo after a rally and consider “nonsense” the businessman’s version, according to which Sánchez sought him out during this event and congratulated him for what he was doing. Sánchez himself declared this Thursday in front of a group of journalists that “the defense strategy [de Aldama] It’s a lie.” “A invented“, he summarized.
Members of the government followed during the morning in Congress almost in real time what was happening on the businessman’s statements before the judge. Early in the afternoon, Sánchez joined the government space in the Congress building.
According to one minister, the comments were “joking” and joked about the amounts Aldama attributed to the alleged payments to each of the ministers.
The context was the plenary session in which Sánchez closes a week that ends with Therese Ribera as vice-president of the European Commission, against the attempt of the PP to block the nomination, and with the approval of part of the tax reform, with the vote of all its parliamentary partners and overcoming the dizziness of what would have was a fatal defeat for the Government. We now wait to see if Aldama can prove his accusations.
The full video of Aldama’s confession before the judge
