The alleged arranger of the ‘Koldo Case’, Víctor de Aldama, disconnected Begoña Gómez, wife of the president of the Government, the rescue of the airline Air Europa in the middle of the pandemic. “Nothing true,” the businessman defended to the then Ministerial Advisor Koldo García transferred when the first information in El Confidencial was published.
He did it in an audio sent to Garcia that consists of the summary of the cause and to which Europa Press has had access, in which the investigated businessman does admit that there were pressures to the then Ministers of Transportation and Economics, José Luis Ábalos and Nadia Calviño, respectively, as well as the still Minister of Finance, María Jesús Montero.
“On what you tell me about Air Europa, they want to link the operation of Air Europa, that if there have been pressures with Begoña and such, nothing true,” said Aldama to the ex -analysis. The audio is part of the brute with all the recordings of Koldo García, but the UCO has not incorporated it into any report.
“They have seen it with points and commas in the SEPI”
The businessman stressed that the “operation” of the rescue had been open “since March or April” of 2020 and came forward “in the month of November.” “They have seen it with points and commas, the SEPI, which the SEPI has hired PWC, an external auditor to also give compliance and not catch their fingers, and have also given their conformity and that everything was legal,” he said in the audio.
And he valued what the family owned by Air Europa had done: “Pepe Hidalgo has put all its guarantees, has put the hotels, has put absolutely everything, where is the strange thing about the operation or where is it that there have been pressures?”
“Of course, there has been pressures, but there have been pressures to Minister Calviño, there have been pressures to Minister Montero, there have been pressures to Minister Ábalos, there have been pressures to everyone, because, as she had said, it is a strategic company and, if the loan was not given, the company closed and 50,000 people were going to the street,” said Aldama.
The alleged arranger informed the then advisor of Ábalos who had called him from Globalia, a company in which the airline is included, because they were worried about press information that pointed to Pedro Sánchez’s wife and that business group.
“Yesterday Lisandro Marque calls me, which is the institutional relations of the Globalia company. He tells me that they are quite overwhelmed” after being warned that the confidential wanted to “get a news from Wakalua, which is the company that carries the entire issue of start-up and new technology in linking with Begoña, the president’s wife,” he explained.
From Aldama, Garcia detailed that Sánchez’s wife “works at IE and carries the entire issue of Africa”: “And Wakalua has developed two ‘start-up’ that come from the competition that was made from Africa and with the people who brought Begoña, because as if there had been a rare financing there or if Begoña were involved or some of that.”
The businessman criticized that there were journalists “looking for shit and nothing to do at first with the issue of Air Europa or the company, only from Wakalua, which belongs to Globalia.”
“Begoña is true that he has been several times at the headquarters of Globalia in Pozuelo, but always for the theme of Wakalua, just like when he came to St. Petersburg with the WTO and we got together with the WTO and with Wakalua. There was Javier (Hidalgo), she, I was and another person called Leticia, but always because of the Wakalua theme,” he added.
Source: www.eldiario.es
