The businesswoman Carmen Pano reiterates at the National Court that delivered 90,000 euros at the PSOE headquarters

The businesswoman Carmen Pano, charged with the millionaire fraud in the hydrocarbons, has reiterated on Wednesday before the judge who investigates her at the National Court that delivered 90,000 euros in cash to the PSOE, reported Eldiario.es legal sources. The businesswoman, who has appeared as investigated, has thus ratified in what has been said three weeks ago when she declared as a witness in the Supreme Court in the case that investigates the alleged irregularities in the Ministry of Transport during the stage of José Luis Ábalos. Then, he said that he had made that delivery following instructions from the alleged guncier of the plot, Víctor de Aldama, the alleged achievement of the ‘Koldo Case’ and the main investigation of the plot of the hydrocarbons.

According to Pano, Aldama would have made an intermediary with an entrepreneur in the Fuel sector so that he got a license for his company. That businessman, named Claudio Rivas, would have paid in return to Aldama 600,000 euros. And, from that amount, Aldama would have diverted the aforementioned amount to the PSOE, always according to his testimony. Pano has cited two deliveries of 45,000 euros at the socialist headquarters and has maintained that on one of the occasions it was in a taxi and that in the other it was aboard a vehicle that was driving a friend of Rivas, Álvaro Gallego. This Wednesday, Pano has answered the questions from all parties.

Last October, the Digital The Objective published that “an anonymous businessman” would have made that payment in exchange for Rivas to get the license to operate in the hydrocarbons sector for one of his companies: Villafuel. Days later, this “businessman” was, in reality, Carmen Pano. The letter did not provide more evidence than anonymous testimonies who claimed to have delivered bags with money at the headquarters of the Socialists in Ferraz. Nor did he identify those who make those accusations and did not add any evidence, testimony or document.

The National Court rejected that complaint when he understood that in the case of fraud in the payment of hydrocarbons taxes in the framework of which Alberto Núñez Feijóo’s party asked to investigate the PSOE “there is no link with the denounced.” Judge Santiago Pedraz’s car, instructor of the cause of fraud in hydrocarbons, also warned of the “contradictions of anonymous complainants” on which the complaint was based.