The 'Koldo plot' sent an email with a copy to Ábalos' former advisor to speak with Transportation and touch on "lower" prices

Anti-corruption assures that Aldama, the alleged getter, "had a special pass" in the Ministry

MADRID, 28 Feb. (EUROPA PRESS) -

One of the emails detected by investigators in the context of the 'Koldo case' reveals the directive that an alleged organizer of the plot, the president of Zamora CF Víctor de Aldama, gave to the Basque businessman Íñigo Rotaeche. "By the way, tell him that he has to lower the price and I will discuss it with the Ministry," reads the message, in which the former advisor and former bodyguard of former Minister José Luis Ábalos, Koldo García, was a copy.

This is clear from an order issued this Wednesday by Judge Ismael Moreno, to which Europa Press has had access, and which reveals that this communication "belongs to an email chain in which the different interlocutors finalize a flight schedule with the Iberia company". The conversation, specifically, took place on April 13, 2020.

The Public Ministry, in the complaint that gave rise to the case that is now being investigated in the Central Court of Instruction Number 2, already pointed out that Aldama had turned to Koldo to "speed up procedures" with Transportation "in the context of contracting during the pandemic".

The message that the judge now collects in his car was sent by Aldama to Rotaeche, and a copy included Koldo's email address at the Ministry of Transportation (MITMA). "By virtue of the personal relationship between Aldama and Koldo, and in the context of the facts under investigation, Aldama could have taken advantage of his personal relationship with Koldo. The direct link between the two begins prior to the award of the investigated contracts and extends beyond these adjudications," according to the account taken by the investigator of the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's complaint.

"The observation of the telephone interventions," points out the Public Ministry, also "demonstrates that Aldama had a special pass at MITMA." Along these lines, the Prosecutor's Office points out a telephone call in which Koldo assures that "Aldama solved the problems he had to be able to execute and bring what I needed from outside" in reference to the shipments of masks investigated.

That order also details that Koldo would have taken advantage of "the situation arising from his personal relationship with public officials and authorities" and would have exercised "his influence to achieve a beneficial resolution" for the company to which the contracts were awarded: Soluciones of Management.

All of this, specifically, within the framework of the economic claim linked to the contract awarded by the Health Service of the Balearic Islands at the request of businessman Juan Carlos Cueto, considered the alleged 'mastermind' of the plot.

"On October 17, 2023, Cueto learned that Soluciones de Gestión - the company that Cueto would control - had received a notification from the Balearic Public Administration regarding an economic claim of approximately three million euros due to the state of the masks that were delivered as compensation for the investigated contract," the order states.

From that moment until January 12, 2024, he adds, Cueto "has requested Koldo's influence so that it does not prosper," according to a series of letters issued by investigators.

Aldama, one of those detained after the outbreak of the operation, was released last Thursday. In his complaint, the Prosecutor's Office maintains that the businessman would have pocketed a total of 5.5 million euros for his participation in the events.

Furthermore, Anticorruption points out a transfer of the company MTM 180 Capital, of which Aldama himself is the owner, which would have been destined for a company owned by another company whose sole shareholder is a third company from Luxembourg.

One of the telephone taps reveals that Aldama would have received a "covert commission" from others investigated "through his contacts in the Ministry."