The PSOE has requested to appear as a defendant in the two trials opened at the National Court in which the commissioner in charge of the Koldo case, Víctor de Aldama, is accused. These are those linked to the plot of purchase of masks during the pandemic and the case of alleged fraud with hydrocarbonswhich led the businessman to temporary prison until his release last Thursday.
Thus, the party requested this Tuesday its appearance as a popular accusation in the two cases opened before the Central Courts of Instruction numbers 2 and 5 taking into account the “national interest” of these cases and the “serious facts under investigation“.
The movement comes after Víctor de Aldama’s statement last Thursday before Judge Ismael Morero. During his appearance, the alleged organizer of the plot attributed the bites to the former minister Jose Luis Abalosnumber three of the PSOE, Santos Cerdán, and chief of staff of Vice-President María Jesús Montero. It also implicated the president of the government, who was allegedly aware of Aldama’s activities, as well as his wife, Begoña Gómez.
The PSOE now responds by requesting his appearance “on behalf of its members and the general interest of the citizens who govern the actions of this organization.” Socialist sources consider that the facts investigated in both cases “could constitute public crimes” and that, therefore, the party adopted this decision “taking into account the concern and social alarm generated”.
The objective, explain these same sources, is “contribute to these instructions carry out the investigation into all the facts surrounding the subject of the procedures which indirectly have the appearance of a crime, to know the true reality of each of them.
The first case concerns the mask contracts awarded to the company in the midst of a pandemic. Management solutionsepicenter of the Koldo affair, for which the Supreme Court resumed the investigation into former minister Ábalos. The second cause, that of hydrocarbons, is at the origin of the so-called public treasury fraud which, in just two years, amounts to more than 182 million euros.
