The Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office continues on the path of giving credibility to all, or a large part, of what the corrupter Víctor de Aldama stated. For this reason, it has requested the judge investigating the PSOE’s cash payments to former minister José Luis Ábalos to include the statement of the commission agent given as an accused in the Supreme Court.
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It also considers it necessary to include the statements of the former socialist leader and his former advisor Koldo García, who provided information about the party’s procedure in settling expenses. García defended, contrary to what the PSOE claimed, that they did pay him with 500 euro bills when the expense settlement was higher than that amount.
According to prosecution sources, as El Mundo has reported and this newspaper has confirmed, this move is because the head of the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office, Alejandro Luzón, has accepted as true what Aldama said during his interrogation, when he admitted that he was a kind of collector sent by Ábalos to collect money from companies in exchange for contracts.
That money, according to Aldama, went partly to the then Minister of Transport and partly to the socialist party. According to the commission agent, the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, was the “number 1” of the organization and was aware of everything. Despite this latest move, Luzón said in his final report on the mask case trial that ended on Thursday that this statement was not true.
The request to include Aldama’s statement must now be resolved by the judge of the National Court who has the open case regarding the PSOE’s cash money, Ismael Moreno. The instructor has a separate case open amid suspicions that certain irregularities may have been committed in the use of cash by the party led by Pedro Sánchez.
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