The Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office has positioned itself against the admission of the complaint to processing presented by the Popular Party in the National Court, pointing out illegal bribery, influence peddling and illegal financing to the Socialist Party, in relation to the open investigation into the commission agent Víctor de Aldama and one of his partners, Claudio Rivas, in a million-dollar hydrocarbon fraud.
According to tax sources, Anti-Corruption has responded to the request for information from the head of the Central Court of Instruction number 5 of the National Court, Santiago Pedraz, opposing the admission of this complaint in which the popular party also requested to appear in the case.
The initiative, presented last week and to which ABC had access, is supported by the publication in The Objective of an interview with a supposed businessman who, from anonymity, assures that he has a close relationship with Aldama and that in that context, he has carried out bags with up to 90,000 euros in cash to the headquarters of the socialists on Ferraz street in Madrid.
The PP took this statement as an anchor to try to push the opening of a separate piece in the case for the hydrocarbon fraud that would focus on the involvement that they presume of the PSOE so that the alleged corrupt plot achieved its objectives.
This case intersects with the one known as the Koldo case not only because they share one of the protagonists, Aldama himself, but because the scope of his influences within the Ministry of Transport and thus, at the heart of the Government, allowed him to get the people by Claudio Rivas a meeting at the Ministry of Ecological Transition so that they could present their intention to obtain a hydrocarbon operator license.
The businessman who spoke with the aforementioned digital media assured that Aldama had set a price for this management, 600,000 euros. The point is that as revealed by the Civil Guard UCO in the Koldo case, that introductory meeting took place. Furthermore, the funds would have come from Rivas to pay for a villa in Cádiz which the former Minister of Transport, José Luis Ábalos, was able to enjoy free of charge, until, after his dismissal, the hydrocarbon license was definitively frustrated. They would get it a year later, in 2022.
After the case broke out with an operation also by the UCO two weeks ago, Aldama and Rivas were placed at the disposal of Pedraz who, in line with the criteria of the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office, sent them to provisional prison. They are charged with crimes of criminal organization, against the Public Treasury and money laundering in the context of a series of chain corporate operations with the purchase and sale of hydrocarbons to achieve a fraud that is estimated at 182 million euros, money that would later be whitewashed by a network of figureheads.
Pending Pedraz’s decision on the position of the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office, the case, in which Manos Cleans and HazteOír, among others, have already requested to appear, remains under summary secrecy.
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