Koldo García Izaguirre, former advisor to the Ministry of Transport during the pandemic, paved the way for the Canary Islands government to hire the companies for the project that bears his name. This arises from WhatsApp that the commissioner and main brain of the operation, Víctor de Aldama, maintained with his network of collaborators and the president of the archipelago at the time, Ángel Víctor Torres.
“It’s very important and owes us a lot“, wrote the businessman to Koldo about the current Minister of Territorial Policy and Democratic Memory. In a previous conversation collected by the Central Operational Unit (UCO) of the Civil Guard, the agents also warn that Ángel Victor Torres “wanted to talk about this same topic” with Aldama.
This same subject refers to the purchase of masks and virus detection tests that regional governments were seeking at the time. In this way, Aldama through his companies and Koldo from the ministry would have maneuvered to do business with the island governments and profit from their companies.
With this on the table, the investigation to which EL ESPAÑOL had access denies the story of Ángel Víctor Torres, who told the Congress of Deputies that he “never” ordered “that a company be under contract or not contract with another”. This was indicated on June 10 during the committee of case Maskswhere he also denied ever speaking to Koldo.
“The Lord has not called me [Koldo] García nor the Lord [José Luis] Ábalos”, he then declared. “I was never obliged to order the hiring of no company by any person from the Ministry of Transport,” he stressed.
THE WhatsApp They also deny this point. Conversations held by the Civil Guard reveal that Koldo spoke with Minister Torres on August 17, 2020.
Then the advisor sent an audio message in which he presented to Torres “some laboratories called Megalab, which are fully established in the Canary Islands.” As a guarantee, he assures that both the chief of staff of the Ministry of Transport and Ábalos himself, then minister, were aware of the operation.
Es necesario señalar que en ese momento, en pleno verano, el Gobierno estaba empezando a levantar las restricciones Covid, por lo que al negocio de mascarillas se unió rápidamente el de las PCR y los test de antígenos, especialmente para los viajeros o residentes en los archipiélagos españoles.
“Me gustaría […] that you receive them so that they can explain it to you, because I find it cool and we all think the same thing. The first should be the Canary Islands”, Koldo emphasized to Ángel Víctor Torres in a subsequent message. Furthermore, the former Transport councilor also made the same contact with Francina Armengol, then president of the Balearic Islands and current president of the Congress . deputies.
