Commissioner Victor de Aldama returned to the National Court on Thursday. At approximately 9:50 a.m., the businessman arrived at the building, where he was summoned before investigating judge Ismael Moreno, who summoned him to testify again in favor of the case. Koldo caseOn this occasion, part of the investigations focused on the purchase and sale of masks from the Government of the Canary Islands during the pandemic. “Angel Victor Torres should be worried. A little bit,” Aldama said upon exit. Before the judge, and according to legal sources present at the meeting, the commission agent confirmed that in July 2020 he met in a jai alai restaurant with the then president of the Canary Islands and the current minister.
According to these same sources, the commission agent insisted that during that meeting they discussed health supplies (masks and Covid tests); He added that Torres was “obsessed” with being a minister. Aldama confirmed after the appearance that he responded to all parties: “to the judge, to the Public Prosecution, to the lawyers, and to the opposing parties.” According to government sources, Torres confirms that this dinner at jai alai was planned, but it never happened.
In November 2024, Aldama made a 180-degree shift in its defense strategy. After entering pretrial prison on charges in another case (related to fuel fraud), the businessman confessed for the first time to his involvement in violations in the purchase and sale of medical supplies during the worst periods of the pandemic by several administrations. His testimony then allowed us to step up to the former Minister of Transport, José Luis Ábalos, who faces a Supreme Court hearing on Thursday to decide whether to send him to prison until the trial takes place for the part of the summary focusing on the MP – with the parliamentarian already facing high prison sentences: the Attorney General’s Office is demanding 24 years in prison; And charges, 30) -.
However, the rest of the investigation is ongoing, already divided into several lines of investigation. The Supreme Court is also investigating allegations of paying bribes in exchange for business awards, indicting Santos Cerdán, José Luis Ábalos himself and his former advisor Koldo García, as well as several businessmen (some of whom are former directors of Acciona).
For its part, the National Court continues investigations into the part of the mask conspiracy that does not relate to the former minister (currently, the only person authorized under the summary), and which involves the sale of this type of material to the government of the Canary Islands during the presidency of Ángel Víctor Torres, current Minister of Regional Policy and Democratic Memory of Spain. The court is also conducting part of the investigations into work manipulation that is not related to Abalos (currently, the only person responsible for the summary), in addition to recently opening a new avenue regarding the management of cash payments from the PSOE.