The Government’s double criteria: Aagesen does provide “data” about Aldama’s visits that Puente denies

Contradiction within the Government with the levels of transparency regarding the businessman Víctor de Aldama, who has put the PSOE on the ropes for his revelations about the alleged corruption of members of the Executive and the party. The Ministry of Transport, the epicenter of the “Koldo case”, has refused to provide data on Aldama’s visits to the department’s headquarters out of respect for the data protection of the affected person, while the Ministry of Ecological Transition has given information in this regard, even if it is to record that no entry by the businessman has been recorded.

In a written parliamentary response to PP deputies in Congress, the Ministry of Ecological Transition commanded by Sara Aagesen points out that Aldama, in addition to Koldo García, Claudio Rivas, María Luisa Rivas and Leonor González Pano, “do not appear in the registry of entry of said Ministry”. The PP’s question seeks to know if any of these members went to the Ministry to negotiate the authorization of the license so that Villafuel SL could operate wholesale with petroleum products.

The answer, although negative because there is no record of any of these people in the Ministry, is in contrast to the answer given just a month ago by Transport. Óscar Puente’s department took refuge in the confidentiality of personal data to avoid revealing how many visits by Aldama to the Ministry have occurred between 2018 and 2024. In a response to an anonymous citizen, it was noted that “the “visit log” contains personal data of visitors, “some of which are not particularly protected, although others may be considered as such by revealing the ideology, union membership, religion or beliefs of some of the visitors.”

“Access to this specially protected information could only be authorized if there was the express written consent of the affected party, something that is not available as it is not collected in access control,” Transport added, implying that Aldama had indeed visited the Ministry, but only he can authorize giving that information about the visits he has made to the department in the last six years.

Therefore, the logic followed by the Aagesen Ministry in rejecting that Aldama has set foot in the department is not applied by Puente, refusing to say whether or not the businessman has been to the Transport headquarters and how many times. In fact, Puente himself, in his appearance at the Senate Investigation Commission on the “Koldo case”, indicated that he was not aware of the news published by LA RAZÓN that his Ministry had denied the information about Aldama’s visits, although he still doesn’t reveal it.