An old three-story building practically abandoned, with the façade deteriorated by the passage of time, is the headquarters in the Dominican Republic of Pronalab Limited Liability Company (SRL). A company that is under the spotlight of law enforcement agents Central Operational Unit (UCO) of the Civil Guard in the framework of the Kold caseeither. Investigators are analyzing the documentation they have requested about the accounts of this business, which It is considered the “money launderer” of the plotaccording to sources in the case reported to LA RAZÓN.
Investigators have been working for weeks following the trail of this company, located south of Santo Domingo, and which It was established by Ignacio Díaz Tapia, partner of the commission agent Víctor de Aldama. One of the first steps taken was to send official requests to collect the corresponding data. Now, the information obtained is being analyzed. All this carried out from the UCO offices in Madrid.
The objective of the UCO is clear: to demonstrate suspicions that this company was actually a money “launderer” of the members of the plot. If the building that houses the company stands out for something, it is because of its disuse. There are no outside signs with the Pronalab name and it is completely “ghost” their activity.
Analysis of UCO data
The exterior view of this small complex is deceptive and does nothing to suggest that the accounts of this company have millions of euros thanks to the contracts that the laboratory obtained during the pandemic. The analysis of these numbers is key for the UCO to know who was in charge of the cash.
The proceedings of the Civil Guard will be able to clarify this term and are quite advanced, according to the same sources. The agents have encountered difficulties in accessing some requirements, but they have finally achieved them. These specialists already have experience in Dominican Republic for the case they are investigating about Luis Rubiales. In these proceedings they did travel to the country to carry out searches accompanied by their police counterparts.
Pronalab is not the only company of interest on the other side of the pond. The agents have in their sights more than a dozen companies that could belong to the Koldo plot. The analysis of the documentation received will be key to determining whether these businesses were used to launder the money from the health awards they received.
Companies in abandoned buildings
The “mysterious” laboratory in the Dominican Republic began on March 26, 2021. The location is number 1609 Avenida de la Independencia. The owner of the company is Ignacio Díaz Tapia, one of Aldama’s partners, who appears in the papers along with Roberto Feliz Astacio and the company. Global Stratos Investmens SL Precisely, in this company Fertinvest Consulting appears as the sole administrator, which has Aldama, Javier Serrano as representatives and its representative was César Moreno García.
The UCO has been on the trail of these companies and their links with third countries for months, as now in Dominican Republic. The WhatsApp conversations intercepted by the protagonists of the “Koldo case” led to this whole network that has a common denominator: their addresses are abandoned buildings far from the millions they allegedly have in their accounts.
In fact, the Civil Guard determined in one of its reports at the beginning of October the links of the “obtainer” Víctor de Aldama with certain Central American countries and with the Dominican Republic. The UCO detected conversations with business friends in which he suggested that he collected money in cash to send it to countries like Venezuela. “I have no doubt that they pay but the machine needs ‘oil’,” he stated in one of those messages.
This is a statement “of utmost importance” for the researchers because it would confirm the existence of an “economic flow” (which was also directly linked to the awarding of pandemic contracts) and because it recognized that these payments were made in cash. It is what he called ‘oil’. The agents suspect that there was a dynamic of funds leaving the Dominican Republic at least since the Ministry of Transportation, then directed by José Luis Ábalos, awarded two contracts for the supply of masks to Soluciones de Gestión, the company involved in the plot.
Alleged diversion of funds
In these events he implicates both Aldama and Ábalos’s then advisor, Koldo García, and his brother Joseba. Since September 2021, the latter’s participation has intensified, becoming a key player in transfers to Central America. The agents intercepted meetings between Aldama and Joseba García that usually took place at the end of each month. Noteworthy, for example, is a meeting on September 20, 2021 and another on October 21 of that year. From the wiretaps it is clear that Koldo García gave instructions to his brother to collect the cash from Aldama through his driver.
In this equation they implicate Piedad Losada, Aldama’s secretary. “Stop at 11. If I’m not there, I’ll leave it to Piedad and that’s it,” reads one of Aldama’s messages to Joseba. After that, he tells his brother: “Sunday confirmed.” The report details that this message refers “to a possible flight to Dominican Republic“since the driver’s brother traveled to the Caribbean country on two occasions on those dates. Once in the period from October 31 to November 4 of that 2021 and another from December 13 to 16 of that year.
In both cases Joseba coordinates with his brother, with Aldama and with Aránzazu Granell. This is your contact in the Dominican Republic and the person who provides you with the cash. However, money deliveries were also made. “Tomorrow, when you are in Punta Cana or arriving, call me and I will tell you where I am (…). I will put it in my bag and at some point we will meet, don’t worry,” wrote the woman identified as Arancha on the 2nd. November 2021. According to wiretaps, it was agreed to give Joseba García “10K.” This is a figure to which the UCO gives truth because after the supposed delivery of money, Joseba asks Koldo García: “How much is 10 in exchange?”, to which he responds that it was 8,800 euros; figure that at that time corresponds to the current exchange rate from dollars to euros.