The judge of the National Court Santiago Pedraz has agreed this Monday to inadmiss the complaint filed by the PP against him PSOE for an alleged crime of illegal financingbased on the testimony of a businessman who claims that he delivered 90,000 euros to the socialist headquarters of Ferraz.
In an order, the head of the Central Court of Instruction Number 5 thus follows the criteria of the Anticorruption Prosecutor’s Officewhich last week reported against the admission of the writing of the popularas confirmed by tax sources. The complaint was specifically directed against the PSOE, the businessman Victor de Aldama and Koldo Garcia (former advisor to the former socialist minister José Luis Ábalos), among others, for alleged crimes of illegal financing, money laundering, influence peddling and bribery.
The document was presented before the court led by Santiago Pedraz because it is part of the secret investigations led by this judicial headquarters for an alleged VAT fraud of more than 182 million in the hydrocarbon sector.
The popular ones based their complaint on the information published on October 10 by The Objectivewhich collects the testimony of two anonymous informants, one of whom He assured that he took 90,000 euros to the socialist headquarters of Ferraz in two deliveries that were made with plastic bags in October 2020. The ultimate objective, according to these testimonies, would be for the Villafuel company to obtain the title of operator in the transportation sector through the intermediation of De Aldama with Koldo García. hydrocarbons, which he finally obtained.
For the PP, “the alleged delivery of 90,000 euros in cash by an individual to obtain an administrative license at the headquarters of a political party” is an important enough clue to “start an investigation” in order to clarify the identity of the recipient and the destination of the funds.”
However, it also pointed to the connection of these events with those investigated in the Central Court of Instruction Number 2 by Ismael Moreno in the Koldo case. the existence of “a gauge”, Ábalos, which, they alleged, could force the matter to be taken to the Supreme Court.
