The PSOE, appeared as a popular accusation in the plot of hydrocarbons that splashes Víctor de Aldama, has opposed the national hearing to declare the current Minister of Territorial Policy, Ángel Víctor Torres OA The “Fontanera” of the party, Leire Díez, within the framework of this procedure. The legal services of the party consider that these proceedings, requested by making you hear, are “useless” and that they have nothing to do with the criminal procedure in which an alleged Fraud The Treasury exceeding 200 million euros.
Political formation maintains, in a letter to which the reason has had access, which are “impertinent” requests and that are “founded” in press news “that they are looking for pollute instruction with media and political motifs. “However, the Association, which represents all the accusations that litigate in this procedure, understands that they should be taken statement to clarify their alleged links with the plot and, specifically, with Aldama and its partner, Claudio Rivas.
Get heard requested the citation as investigated from a total of 33 people involved in the facts. These are entrepreneurs – some of them alleged testaferros – at the head of mercatiles dotted with fraud, such as Still Growing, manufacturing design and comprehensive solutions, setespan oil, international oil movements SL, novogar 2005 SL or gaslow supply. In addition, he claimed that they be questioned again for these facts to Claudio Rivasowner of Villafuel, Víctor de Aldama and its members investigated in the Koldo case: César Moreno, Ignacio Díaz Tapia and Javier Serrano.
The former two of Maroto and Koldo, among the witnesses
Similarly, they proposed to Judge Santiago Pedraz to cite as a witness to the chief of the former Minister of Industry Juan Ignacio Díaz Bidart; to Koldo García; to Leire Díez (known as “La Fontanera” of the PSOE); to the current Minister of Territorial Policy, Ángel Víctor Torres, and the single Gaslow Administrator supply, Francisco Javier Patiño. The accusation argues that all of them can explain if there was any irregular action in the granting of the operator’s license to Villafuel, the key company of the plot.
Although the PSOE considers that these proceedings “do not lead to deepen the investigation,” make yourself heard holds otherwise, mainly according to what Carmen Pano declared. The businesswoman, who says she took 90,000 euros to the headquarters of the PSOE in 2020, said that Koldo García and Aldama mediated to accelerate the granting of the license with which Villafuel would have committed the millionaire VAT fraud. Specifically said that They got a meeting at the Ministry of Industry in which Bidart participated and where they would have guided them to get the license granted by the Ministry of Ecological Transition of Teresa Ribera.
In addition, he revealed that the two businessmen traveled to the Canary Islands to meet Torres, then president of the Canarian government. Pano has already referred to this episode in his statement before the Civil Guard. As he declared before the UCO in December, both traveled by private plane with the intention of acquiring a fiscal deposit, to be operational and download fuel that They intended to bring in ships from Venezuela to the Dominican Republic and Finally to Spain. As they did not, they chose to launch the marketing machine Canary Island Fuel Company. However, he confirmed that the plot introduced ships from Georgia that would contain fuel of Russian origin.
Meeting with towers to export Venezuelan oil
For all these reasons, getting heard consider that the proposed testimony are key to shedding light on these chapters. Regarding the former two of Reyes Maroto, he says that in his appearance in the Supreme Court in May he ended up confirming before the judge of the Koldo case the existence of the meeting, being also works for a message in the summary of the Koldo case of December 2020 in which the latter communicates to Bidart the name of the people who were going to participate in the meeting to allow them to access the departure of the Ministry. Therefore, they also claim that Koldo García is summoned and clarified whether it was the “architect” of the appointment and if he charged in exchange for opening the doors of industry to Aldama.
With regard to Torres, the popular accusation wants him to be summoned as a witness to be asked about the alleged meetings with Aldama and Rivas “To export Venezuelan oil” and market it in Spain through maritime ports. Although the former Canarian president said in his appearance of the Koldo case commission in the Senate that did not hold any meeting for these facts, Aldama contradicts his version. The commissioner of the Koldo case has defended in various television interviews they had “The largest Canary Islands official” to his “disposition.”
They also request the testimony of Leire Díez to clarify whether, as he said at a press conference, all his meetings with entrepreneurs affected by the hydrocarbon plots were framed in a research work on this matter. In addition, they want me to explain whether he delivered his findings to the PSOE, since the recording of one of his meetings evidenced that what he was looking for was Get harmful information about the UCO dome to separate it from the causes that follow today against the closest environment of Pedro Sánchez.
The granting of the license, in the focus
Despite this, the Socialist Party – represented by the same lawyer who appeared with Santos Cerdán in the Koldo case – considers that they will not shed light into the cause. Bidart said he already declared in the Supreme Court and, in regard to Torres, he argues that it is A “occurrence” that an alleged Venezuelan oil sales business is implied. “The statement of Ms. Leire Díez Castro does not seem to shed much light on the tax infractions object of the present case. For all this, the proceedings requested, in the opinion of the representation of the PSOE, are Useless, unnecessary And not leading to deepen the instructor research, “he concludes.
In addition, he says that The granting of the license to Villafuel It is not under suspicion. However, Judge Pedraz requested on July 8 to the magistrate of the Koldo case at the National Court Testimated copy of the archives that contained the mobiles of Aldama and Koldo requisitioned by the Civil Guard “that are related to all the activities related to obtaining the title of Operator” of Villafuel. In addition, it should be remembered that the Anti -Corruption Prosecutor already slid in his complaint that the company epicenter of this millionaire fraud He would have obtained the license of the Teresa Ribera Ministry without apparently complying, all the requirements.
Pedraz’s movement clears the way to investigate if José Luis Ábalos measured in favor of the plot. Although the magistrate refused to investigate him in these proceedings, now the matter could turn around since his then right hand, Koldo García, would have mediated to help them and have Got Time, the firm of Carmen Pano also investigated in the plot, it was the one that acquired the house of the warden (Cádiz) in which he spent veranea Ábalos in 2021, months after the meeting held in industry of Maroto to expedite the granting of the license.