The revelations of the Koldo affair concerning the possible link of the Information Service of the Civil Guard with the corruption plot investigated are experiencing a new episode with the request of the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office to declare one of its senior officials, Colonel in charge, as witness to unity against jihadist terrorism. The prosecutor also requested testimony from seven other agents who made bank deposits to the accused commander, Rubén V., or orders from him for the businessman Aldama.
The Civil Guard Information Service (SIGC) has been in a convulsion since Commander Rubén’s seized conversation with his boss, the colonel commanding UCE-2, the anti-jihadist unit, broke out. It was specified that the colonel, with great influence in the anti-terrorist service, knew that the businessman at the center of the corruption plot, Víctor de Aldama, was registered as a confidant in the unit dedicated to the detection of terrorists Islamists.
The prosecutor’s letter reveals that the colonel, whom the UCO investigation identifies as “Agent 1”, had personal contacts with Koldo García, the former advisor to José Luis Ábalos. Koldo is a “coffee maker” in the conversations between the colonel and his subordinate Rubén, presumably paid by the organization. “Tell the coffee maker that if she’s here next week, we’ll have coffee. If that suits you. “I will return on Saturday,” said the colonel.
During this conversation, the colonel and the commander express their concern that Koldo García and Aldama could associate them with criminal activities. “Damn Koldo, angry as a monkey, Víctor de Aldama, angry as a monkey, thinking we gave them a kibble. The problem is that they think, or thought that we had given them a damn, that we were with them and now that we knew that they were going to arrest them, we moved away», » says the colonel in the recording.
A popular accusation had asked the judge to summon the colonel as an investigator, but the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office opted for him to testify as a witness, the same condition in which a total of seven agents of the anti-terrorist service of an armed institute will appear.
New suspects and release on bail
In addition, the Prosecutor’s Office requests the investigative statement of Ignacio Díaz Tapia, linked to Aldama and who paid for a plane ticket to Venezuela for Commander Rubén. It turns out that Rubén was subsequently selected by the Civil Guard and the Ministry of the Interior for a position at the embassy of that country. The order was issued by the Secretary of State for Security, Rafael Pérez, on the proposal of the director of the Corps until his recent dismissal, Leonardo Marcos.
In addition to Díaz Tapia, Anticorruption proposes the appearance of four other people as defendants. He also requests that Rubén V. be required to provide a deposit of 88,119 euros within fifteen days.
