The PSOE presented this Friday the demand in which he requests the conciliation act prior to the presentation of the joint complaint for insults and slander against the alleged perpetrator of the Koldo case, the businessman Víctor de Aldama, after his voluntary statement before the judge of the National Court.
The lawsuit has been filed on behalf of the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, his wife, Begoña Gómez, and his Chief of Staff, Carlos Moreno; the ministers Ángel Víctor Torres and María Jesús Montero; the former minister and president of the Generalitat, Salvador Illa, and the organization secretary of the socialists, Santos Cerdán.
In the lawsuit, the PSOE has claimed the request for the celebration of a conciliation act prior to the filing of a criminal complaint for an alleged crime of libel and slander, under article 804 of the Criminal Procedure Law and articles 139 et seq. of the Voluntary Jurisdiction Law.
For the socialists, the businessman’s statements are “Absolutely false, defamatory, libelous and slanderous“, since they attack “in an absolutely serious way against the honor of important members of the Government and the PSOE” and Begoña Gómez, “with a clear intention to affect” also the Executive as a whole and the party.
For this reason, the PSOE asks Aldama in its letter to retract the accusations made against them and which were part of his statement before the judge, “committing to immediately cease all activity tending to damage the prestige, image and honor” of all those mentioned by Aldama.
Specifically, the socialists assure in the writing that all these manifestations, which they list on the first pages with transcripts of Aldama’s statement, are “flatly false and seriously violate honor” of the interested parties. “They are absolutely false, defamatory, slanderous and slanderous, attacking in an absolutely serious way against the honor of important members of the Government and the PSOE and Ms. Begoña Gómez, with a clear intention to also affect the honor not only of these in a personal capacity, but also to the Government as a whole and to the socialist party itself, the PSOE, as a legal entity, represented by them and which represents, in turn, all its members, and all those citizens who trust in this as a political option”.
“They are some absolutely premeditated, tortious and absolutely serious statementscarried out with absolutely spurious purposes, and an obvious political purpose, against our clients in their personal capacity, against the Government and the PSOE itself, which we do not know if they obey exclusively our own interests or also those of third parties, as well as if they have been carried out motu proprio or in exchange for price, reward or promise; but that in any case, despite being expressed by an investigator in a criminal procedure, they cannot be fraudulently protected by the right of defense, which allows lying in one’s own favorbecause given their obvious seriousness and public significance, they cannot be protected by impunity for speaking out within an ongoing procedure,” they add.
The PSOE considers that these statements may imply a crime of libel and slander of articles 205 and 208 of the Penal Code and that, in addition, “also have the character of public crimes committed against the aforementioned authorities in the exercise of their positions, in accordance with article 215 of the Penal Code, which could also be classified as the type provided for in article 504 of the Penal Code”.
The plaintiffs specify that they make available to the judicial body “the information we have in relation to the domicile of the person requested in this conciliation, to be notified, and specifically, the address of the professional office of your lawyerbut, however, if the Court so considers it, if necessary, we also urge that domiciliary investigation is carried out of the data necessary to notify you of this procedure, such as informing the Central Court of Instruction no. 2 of the National Court, since in its Preliminary Proceedings 63/2024, there are complete details of the defendant, as he is being investigated in said procedure.”
Aldama’s statement before the judge
In his statement on Thursday before Judge Moreno, De Aldama said having paid 400,000 euros to the former Minister of Transport José Luis Ábalos, 250,000 to his former advisor Koldo García, and who sent another 15,000 euros to the Secretary of Organization of the PSOE, Santos Cerdán.
Also Koldo García, according to the commission agent’s version, I would have asked for 50,000 euros for the then Canarian president, Ángel Víctor Torres, but De Aldama refused.
Furthermore, the businessman stated that the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, was connoisseur of the trip to Spain of the Venezuelan vice president, Delcy Rodríguez, in 2020 and that in fact she had planned a dinner with him and many of his ministers.
De Aldama left the Soto del Real penitentiary center (Madrid) this Thursday night, where he remained in preventive detention in relation to another judicial investigation, the one related to an alleged hydrocarbon fraud.
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