The PSOE accused the alleged commissioner of the “Koldo affair”, Victor de Aldamato spread “slander and lies” after having assured that his photo with Sánchez “was not accidental” and after having admitted high payments to various socialist officialsamong them the party’s organizational secretary, Santos Cerdán.
“There will be no criminals who will set the political agenda. Nothing will be free, they cannot let us be trampled. They will not defeat us with slander and lies,” Cerdán told Congress this Thursday.
The socialist thus pointed the finger at Aldama, who, a few hours earlier, had declared before the judge of the National Court that the president of the government, Pedro Sánchez, had “invited” him to the gathering of La Latina (Madrid) because he wanted “Thanks for the work” in terms of the railway business he was doing in Mexico, according to what judicial sources told laSexta.
Aldama also told Judge Ismael Moreno that Santos Cerdán received 15,000 euros in an envelopewho gave 400,000 to José Luis Ábalos and 200,000 to Koldo García. He even claimed to have brought money to the Ministry of Transport.
The alleged commission agent, currently in preventive detention for VAT fraud on gasoline, surprised with the accusation against Santos Cerdán, who is not the subject of any investigation in this case and was not involved until now. As he explained, the payment of this commission to Cerdán would be linked to a tender from a construction company for which he worked and whose name he did not mention. Aldama clarified that, in his presence, it was Koldo who handed an envelope containing 15,000 euros in cash to Cerdán in the bar located in front of the socialist headquarters in Ferraz.
So, although Cerdán failed to deny it and did not even mention it in his speech, he referred to Aldama’s statements, assuring that “they will not defeat us with slander and lies “.
Furthermore, the organizational secretary of the PSOE declared that they “abandon all hope” because, he said, “we left the legislature.”
For his part, the popular deputy Sergio Sayas told Cerdán that “today has not had its best day” and assured that “we must have the courage to go to the podium to talk about agreements with Bildu “.
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