National Court investigates company I have time SL as a member of a criminal organization, including Victor de Aldama was part, who allegedly committed VAT fraud worth more than 182 million euros in just two years thanks to the sale of fuel.
Have Got Time SL is the company that He rented a chalet from the former minister José Luis Ábalos in June 2021, in an exclusive urbanization in the Cádiz town of La Línea de la Concepción. In July of the same year, Ábalos was dismissed as Minister of Transport and PSOE organizational secretary.
As EL ESPAÑOL exclusively revealed, the Central Operational Unit (UCO) of the Civil Guard was already investigating this company for possible money laundering of illicit origin.
I have time SL charged 140 million with the purchase and sale of fuel in the six months following the signing of the rental contract for the chalet by the former Minister of Transport. However, the company had 165 million euros in expenses that year. In other words, he always sold at a loss.
And this Monday, on the orders of Judge Santiago Pedraz, the UCO arrested 14 people, as part of a case subject to summary secrecy. One of those arrested is businessman Víctor de Aldama, former owner of Zamora CF and considered as the commission agent/intermediary of the Koldo affairin which another judge of the National Court is investigating an alleged corruption conspiracy devoted to the illegal collection of commissions in several contracts awarded by the Ministry of Transport under the leadership of Ábalos.
Judicial sources confirm to EL ESPAÑOL that Aldama and the rest of the detainees will be brought to court this Thursday. This Monday, as part of the said operation, the UCO searched Aldama’s home and one of his offices.
Aldama is accused of the offenses of belonging to a criminal organization and fraud against the public treasury. Also among those arrested is Claudio Rivasa businessman in the hydrocarbon sector linked to the Villafuel company, and his sister, Maria Luisa Rivas.
According to the judicial sources consulted, these two people indicted used the companies indicted to avoid paying VAT. Both, partners of Aldama, allegedly used various front men as the visible faces of some of these companies, even though it was in reality the three of them who were behind the companies involved in this operation.
Víctor de Aldama collected 600,000 euros from Have Got Time SL, according to documents held by EL ESPAÑOL.
In the accounts of one of the Aldama companies there is also a transfer of more than 300,000 euros made by another of the companies also currently investigated by the National Court, SL still growing. This company owns Villafuel, whose only director was María Luisa Rivas, sister of Claudio Rivas.
Have Got Time SL was managed by Leonor González Panoclosely linked to Víctor de Aldama. His mother, María del Carmen Pano Sánchez, has numerous criminal records and arrests for money laundering, falsifying bank documents and receiving.
EL ESPAÑOL contacted Leonor González, who claims to have “nothing to do” with this operation by the UCO and the National Court. And, in response to this newspaper, he claims to have left “the world of hydrocarbons a long time ago”.
In a press release released this Monday, the Anti-corruption prosecution confirmed its participation in this operation aimed at fighting a “criminal organization” dedicated to “fraud in the strategic hydrocarbon sector”.
The public prosecutor estimates the alleged fraud at more than 182 million euros in just two years.
Currently, explains Anticorruption, “a series of instrumental business networks are under investigation, used both to defraud the public treasury and to launder illicitly obtained funds.”
The press release warns that, “unlike other common criminal organizations, the type of criminal structure that is the subject of an investigation involves great complexity (…), since its activity in a legal sector such as that hydrocarbons, adds to the profits of a million dollars. obtained within very short deadlines, they allow these organizations to position themselves in certain sectors with different spheres of power, achieve a strong capacity for corruption among administration officials“.
In addition to the 14 arrests made – that of Aldama and 13 other people – the UCO registered 11 addresses and company headquarters in several Spanish provinces. Specifically, Madrid, Salamanca and Cáceres. It was a complaint filed by the anti-corruption prosecutor’s office which gave rise to this operation.
According to what sources close to the investigation reveal to EL ESPAÑOL, Aldama is accused of crimes of belonging to a criminal organization and fraud against the Public Treasury.
Aldama and the “Koldo case”
In addition to his alleged involvement in this criminal organization, Víctor Gonzalo de Aldama, businessman and former president and owner of Zamora CFis the subject of an investigation by another judge of the National Court in the so-called Koldo affair.
This legal case revolves around the alleged collection of illegal commissions through various contracts awarded, mainly, by the Ministry of Transport to the company SL Management Solutions for the delivery of masks at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020.
Aldama is said to be the intermediary in this alleged criminal conspiracy, which bears the name of Koldo García Izaguirre, who was its main advisor. -and man of total confidence- of the Minister of Transport at the time, Jose Luis Abalos.
