Aldama arrives at the Supreme Court to testify on the ‘Koldo case’
Businessman Víctor de Aldama has already arrived at the Supreme Court, where he is summoned to testify as being investigated for the corrupt plot that had its epicenter in the Ministry of Transportation during the period of José Luis Ábalos. Aldama, considered the achiever of the plot, arrived at the court by car accompanied by his lawyer and did not want to make statements to the media that were waiting for him at the door. The businessman will have to explain to the investigator of the case, Leopoldo Puente, the document that he presented in the Supreme Court on December 4 as alleged proof of the commitment to collaborate with justice that has allowed him to be released after being imprisoned for a month and due to his involvement in another corrupt network. The document delivered to the Supreme Court included a list of supposed works “pre-awarded” by Ábalos in exchange for commissions.
The businessman assures that he also agreed with the former minister and former Secretary of Organization of the PSOE to give him an apartment located on Paseo de la Castellana in Madrid valued at 1.9 million euros as a “guarantee” for the payments that various construction companies would make to him in the future. in exchange for the awarding of contracts, and that “the request for gifts” by Ábalos was “constant.” In the documentation delivered to the judge, Aldama also pointed out other officials close to the Government and the PSOE, such as Minister Ángel Víctor Torres and Carlos Moreno, chief of staff of María Jesús Montero, Minister of Finance.
Ábalos denied all the accusations in his statement before the judge last Thursday, in which he assured that he never received any type of compensation for the awards of his department and pointed out De Aldama and his former advisor in the Ministry, Koldo García, as responsible for the operations under suspicion.
Aldama’s statements also clash with the reports prepared by the Government on the awards indicated by the businessman. These documents, commissioned by the current Minister of Transport, Óscar Puente, have concluded that no irregularities have been detected, that several projects have not even been put out to tender and that the list presented by the businessman includes files processed by Ábalos’s predecessors in the position, Ana Pastor and Íñigo de la Serna, from the PP, and by Ábalos’ successor, Raquel Sánchez, from the PSOE.
