Ángel Víctor Torres directly rejects the accusations of Victor de Aldama. The current Minister of Territorial Policy assures that they rely on “lies, lies, hoaxes” and “insidiousness”, after the alleged commissioner of the “Koldo affair” declared Thursday that the then Canarian president He asked for 50,000 euros for the landa payment that, according to his account, was never made.
Asked by the press this Friday about this, Torres emphasized that Aldama “was in prison” until this Thursday, when he appeared before the National Court and was subsequently arrested. released– and claimed that “he did it very thick and very serious statements with problems that had nothing to do with why he was in prison.
“Their accusations are based on lies, lies, hoaxes, traps,” said the head of Democratic Memory, who declared that “lies cannot come for free” and indicated that this Friday they would present legal actions before “these accusations without evidence“, which he describes as “very serious”.
Some accusations, he pointed out, came from someone who “walked into the courthouse with his hands in his pockets.” “In all his statements there was not a single piece of evidencenot a single document to support his statements”, underlined Torres, who insisted that “we are faced with a person without credibilitywho is capable of asserting that he collaborated with the CIA, with MI6.”
In this sense, Torres also echoed the statements made this Friday by the minister. Felix Bolanoswho ironically commented on Aldama’s statement, saying that it was enough for him to say that he collaborated with TIA, the comics agency of Mortadelo and Filemón. “It was a grotesque appearance. Some media reported on it a new little Nicolas“, Torres slipped. “We will exercise the relevant legal action for the defense of honor and reputation,” he reiterated.
The PSOE categorically denied the veracity of Aldama’s judicial statement, which he himself Pedro Sanchez crossed out “invented”after the businessman pointed the finger at the president and several members of the government and the PSOE, including Ángel Víctor Torres.
According to Aldama, Torres, who chaired the Canary Islands government at the time, would have asked for a commission of 50,000 euros to ensure the purchase of masks by the Regional Executive. According to his version, this is where he stood: “I said to them: ‘I am not the Bank of Spain and you are already going too far,” he declared this Thursday before the National Court.
