Ángel Víctor Torres and other senior positions of the Government of Pedro Sánchez took great care so that his WhatsApp conversations with Víctor Aldama did not come out. The Central Civil Guard Unit (UCO) located messages from the minister with other investigated from the “Koldo plot” But it was not possible to do the same with the responses to the entrepreneur since he had encrypted his content. The Security experts They consider the reason that it may be due to the use of a program to carry out this erase.
The first contact of Aldama and Torres was on July 15, 2020 in the afternoon. A day later the businessman sent this message to the minister’s mobile when he was still President of the Canary Islands. “Good afternoon Ángel Victor, I’m Victor of Air Europa, we were yesterday afternoon. And they speak with them in case you have an interest in acquiring them.
The answer to this message is, today, a mystery. The situation could be resolved in the coming weeks since the overturning of the Aldama mobile device continues by the expert who has been hired by his defense. However, with the regret of the protagonists, the conversations can be recovered because they are in the bowels of the businessman’s telephone, according to the security sources consulted by reason.
According to the messaging application itself this encryption of “Extreme at the end” It generates that neither the company itself can listen to the calls or see the content of the messages. “Before a message comes out of your device, it is protected with a cryptographic block, from which the recipient has the key,” they add in their functions.
WhatsApp ensures that they review “carefully”, they validate and respond to those requests from the forces of the order according to the applicable legislation and politics. “We give priority to emergency applications,” they highlight.
Torres “owes us a great”
There is the circumstance that Carlos Moreno’s responses have also been eliminated, the right hand of María Jesús Montero. This circumstance invites you to think that a specific program could have been used to erase all these messages. It should be noted that, the best known of all, is the famous Pegasus, who is related to international espionages.
Torres and Aldama’s relationship intensified only one month after they met. That translates from a conversation that the businessman had with Koldo García, on August 14, 2020, where the current minister is made special. “It is very important and owes us a great“Aldama assured his interlocutor when talking about the PCR business in the Canary Islands.
A few days later, on August 17, the one who at that time was an advisor to José Luis Ábalos contacted Torres to propose to hire Megalab services since he had devised a PCR test protocol to facilitate “Safe Flights” Against the Coronavirus.
The detail that reveals the existence of these WhatsApp encrypted groups is that August 25 Ignacio Tapiaone of those investigated by the plot of the masks sent a message to the now minister with a presentation of his laboratory company. In this case, the Civil Guard can intervene Torres’s messages with its interlocutor.
“Torres replied that he would like to talk about the progress and asked Tapia to send him the information of the other day since he had spoken with ‘Illa’ These days and it seemed that there was a good reception. Then, Torres shared the telephone contact of Blas Trujillo, “the UCO report used last October.
A program to delete messages
Sources of the case detail the reason that behind this elimination of conversations may be the change in the encryption of the Mobile devices To hinder the investigations and hide information. This circumstance would be relevant since it would complicate the location of the answers that Torres and other high positions to Aldama gave. Forensic tools such as Cellebrite They could recover them. This system is being used by both the Civil Guard and by the specialists who have been hired by the employer.
The deletion of these messages was already warned by José Antonio Choclán, Aldama’s lawyer. “In the aforementioned device, an extensive contact list is contained, even with members of the current government, cabinet chiefs or responsible for public companies, with which WhatsApp communications of interest to the investigation were maintained, and those that are necessary to access completely to be able to prove several of the facts that were the subject of the statement, “he said in a letter.
Likewise, the lawyer stressed that the forensic expert had detected that in the answers of the government members there was a message that the “security code has changed”. This strange circumstance also affects chats with towers. For the investigation it would be interesting to know what happened that month of relationship that Aldama had with the minister so that a “Great”.
All these circumstances occur within the framework of the statements in the judicial headquarters of the businessman where he revealed that he organized appointments in floors with “Ladies” to which the current head of the portfolio of Territorial policy and democratic memory. The Supreme Court has requested that you present the evidence on these events.
Torres communications with Aldama
The siege on Torres could be closed in the next few days since Leopoldo Puente has also asked the Central Operational Unit (UCO) of the Civil Guard to present a report on the analysis of the telephone communications And the devices intervened with the communication that Aldama has been able to have with Ábalos, his son Víctor, Ángel Víctor Torres, Santos Cerdán or “Any other person aforared before this Supreme Court.”
The Civil Guard reports nourish the data of the public sector contracting platform. In this entity it is underlined that the Canary Health Service awarded three contracts to the company Eurofins Megalab with who Fertinvest He shared the review business.
These contracts were formalized on December 18, 2020 and January 1 and February 1, 2021, few “months after the communications presented” that dot minister Torres. The Canarian public coffers disbursed a total of more than 5.3 million of euros. Not a year had been completed since that first Aldama meeting. Then came the messages and benefits of the plot of the masks.