The PSOE let the complaint it announced a year ago against Víctor de Aldama die. In November 2024, the businessman testified for the first time before the National Court.
Among other things, he recounted how his relationship with the President of the Government began, Pedro Sanchezand accused Carlos Morenochief of staff of the Minister of Finance, María Jesús Montero, for having received 25,000 euros in exchange for a tax deferral.
Before the judge, the businessman also assured that he had paid 15,000 euros in cash to Santos Cerdanthen organizational secretary of the PSOE.
The Socialist Party called Aldama’s confession “political”, called his remarks “defamatory, slanderous and slanderous” and filed a request for conciliation against the businessman, a preliminary step to opening legal action.
In the end, it won’t be like that. The party had one year from Aldama’s statement to file a complaint against him. This is what the law provides in the event of crimes of defamation and slander. The deadline has already expired and, as EL ESPAÑOL has verified, the PSOE has not taken this step.
Currently, there is no trace of a complaint signed by the party and directed against Víctor de Aldama that would have been filed in the courts of the Plaza de Castilla, where, in any case, it should have been filed.
This newspaper also consulted the party twice —before and after the deadline expires—and it’s still waiting for the promised response.
The request for conciliation
The request for conciliation presented by the PSOE -as step prior to the possibility of filing a complaint— He also indicated that the businessman’s confession constituted an “absolutely serious” attack on the honor of Sánchez’s wife. Begoña Gomez.
And against that of “all those citizens who trust (the PSOE) as a political option”, in addition to that of its members.
However, the only time Aldama mentioned Gómez before the National Court was to say that Sánchez’s wife was present at a meeting on a project for an emptied Spain. He did not attribute any crime to him.
The request for conciliation was also presented on behalf of the minister Angel Victor Torresfrom the former minister Salvador Illafrom the Minister of Finance and First Vice President of the Government, María Jesús Montero, and her chief of staff, Carlos Moreno.
In November 2024, during his first testimony before the National Court, Aldama reported that Koldo Garcia —the main advisor to former minister José Luis Ábalos— asked him for 50,000 euros for Ángel Víctor Torres, former president of the Canary Islands and current head of territorial policy and democratic memory. However, the businessman assured that he refused to remit this amount.
The PSOE conciliation request was signed by two lawyers. The first, Alberto Cachinero Captain. The second, Sandra Rodríguez Vázquez, former councilor of the Canarian PSOE. This lawyer is also the wife of MEP Juan Fernando López Aguilar, who was Minister of Justice in the government of José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero.
Following the presentation of the trial, in April 2025, the Court of First Instance number 86 of Madrid summoned Aldama and the aforementioned members of the PSOE for an act of conciliation.
Neither party was required to attend in person. In both cases, their respective lawyers appeared. They did not reach an agreement, which gave the PSOE carte blanche to file a complaint.
The photo with Sánchez
Concerning Pedro Sánchez, Aldama told the National Court that his first meeting with him took place during a PSOE event in Madrid, in March 2019. And that it took place at the suggestion of the President of Government.
There they both saw each other at an official PSOE event and took a photo together. “The president (Sánchez) tells me verbatim: ‘Thank you for what you are doing, you have informed me very well,’” Aldama told the judge.
The photo of Aldama and Pedro Sánchez.
His lawyer asked him if the photo they both took this Sunday, February 3, 2019 was “surreptitious” or “coincidental”.
The businessman categorically denied this and insisted that Pedro Sánchez had an interest in greeting him, after the businessman had made arrangements to facilitate a trip from Ábalos to Mexico.
In response to Aldama’s remarks before the judge, Sánchez denied having a close relationship with him. “I can of course guarantee that we are calm because, as far as myself, my current government, my organization, the PSOE, are concerned, Everything this man says is categorically false.“, insisted the head of the Executive.
“He surely does it to divert attention and sow doubt,” Sánchez said.
Just a few months after the act of conciliation, a report from the Central Operational Unit (UCO) of the Civil Guard denounced Santos Cerdán for allegedly indicting illegal commissions in exchange for rigged public contracts.
On June 30, 2025, he would be incarcerated by order of the Supreme Court. The confidence that the PSOE leadership said it had in him —Minister Montero put her “hand on the fire” for Cerdán— He collapsed.
Finally, the former organizational secretary of the PSOE was released from prison on November 18. Like Koldo, Ábalos and Aldama, he is still under investigation by Supreme Court Justice Leopoldo Puente.
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