The magistrate investigating the so-called “fuel plot” in the National Court, Santiago Pedraz, has summoned a dozen witnesses between November 28 and December 19, to shed light on this network that would have defrauded the treasury of more than 200 million euros. Among those mentioned are Piedad Losada, secretary of Víctor de Aldamaand Josefina Piris Perpén, sister of the former head of the Valencia Provincial Police Station, José Piris Perpén. Both will testify on December 12.
In this way, the instructor promotes the proceedings opened by the plot that Claudio Rivas and Víctor de Aldama would have led and does so at the request of the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office, according to the new documentary to which LA RAZÓN has had access. The Public Ministry (which litigates together with the popular accusations led by Hazte Oír) requested that they be summoned to court after they had already testified before the Civil Guard between October 7 and 8 of last year, after the outbreak of the case.
These are people linked to Villafuel (the key company in the network) and also to Víctor de Aldama. The latter’s entourage includes his secretary – who has also appeared as a witness in the Koldo case – and Julia Josefina Piris Perpén. The latter was hired as an administrative assistant at MTM 180 Capital SL in June 2017. Aldama’s signature is under scrutiny by investigators, who suspect that he would have used it to channel commissions.
Sister of the former head of the Valencia Provincial Police Station
In fact, she is also identified in the Koldo case for having received payments from Air Europa while she served as an advisor. In this case, the magistrate wants to listen to the witness because in her statement before the Civil Guard on October 8 of last year, she said that funds were received “from Portuguese accounts” that would have been used to pay expenses related to the renovation of the house on Paseo de la Castellana that Aldama bought.
According to him, it was acquired in the name of the company Batarse and leased to the company Atmosferaudaz, for an amount of 1,500 euros. Both are controlled directly by Aldama himself who, as he confessed in court, acquired this luxury apartment valued at 1.9 million eurosto deliver it to Ábalos in exchange for facilitating alleged rigging by the Ministry of Transportation in favor of friendly construction companies.
The testimony of this former Aldama employee is especially relevant because she would have been present at the meetings between the businessman and his partner Claudio Rivas and because she is the sister of the person who was head of the Valencia Provincial Police Station until 2022. In this regard, the newspaper The Objective reported that the police command processed a weapons license for Aldama under the argument that their collaborations with the State Security Forces and Bodies “They posed a risk to their physical integrity.”
Villafuel employees
Furthermore, in the document that the commissioner signed in April 2017, he stated that he was linked “to the executive management of companies of national and international interests“, among which is Pilot Real Estatea firm in which his sister was also employed. It also happens that this document was signed just two months before Aldama hired the witness as an employee in one of his companies.
Thus, the head of the Central Court of Instruction number 5 also cites former employees of Villafuel for the alleged massive fraud with operations exempt from the payment of VAT. Thus, he quotes José Luis Ramos Hernández; to Almudena González (personal assistant of Claudio Rivas’s sister) or to Virginia AB (who explained that they were forced to buy the product from marketers knowing that the download came directly from Villafuel).
Similarly, he also cites Gema Giménez Alguacil and Mónica Santamaría (both employees of one of Claudio Rivas’ companies); to Diana Esther Torre; to Yolanda Íñigo; to Mario García Iglesias; to Gema Rivera de la Cruz and David Rivas Macías, the latter founder of Villafuel together with Jesús Callejón on February 23, 2020. The Civil Guard considers that some of them were trusted people of the alleged ringleader of the plot, since they were employed in some of his businesses. The witnesses are summoned between November 28 and December 19.