The Unidad Central Operativa (UCO) of the Civil Guard concludes that the hydrocarbon plot allegedly led by Víctor de Aldama and his associate Claudio Rivas instrumentalized a series of companies to allocate payments of “around a million euros” to “buy the volunteer” of the former Minister of Transport José Luis Ábalos. Furthermore, the investigation considers that the organization could penetrate the “directive levels” within this ministry, as well as that of Industry and Ecological Transition.
In a new report that the UCO presented before the holder of Juzgado de Instrucción number 5 of the National Court, Santiago Pedraz, the agents reveal new conversations as recently as June 27, 2020 in which the daughter of Carmen Pano (the businesswoman who ensures that the money is collected in cash at Ferraz’s headquarters) tells her sentimental partner that he had offered her a job. “Ábalos offered me to work in the office of his advisors, which I would have refused,” recounts this conversation.
The report, which reached the country, explains how the authorization granted to the merchant Villafuel SL, controlled by Rivas and Aldama, was obtained and how the administrative authorization was obtained from the company that defrauded Hacienda.
The UCO reflects enormous strength from the first pages. After placing Commissioner Víctor de Aldama and his associate Claudio Rivas at the head of a “criminal organization” dedicated to hydrocarbon fraud, the agents claim that there are “sufficient” clues about their “possible penetration” at the “directive levels” of three different ministries: those of Transport, Mobility and Urban Agenda; the of Industry, Comercio and Turismo; and the ecological and demographic transition.
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