US EditionSpain's PM Led Plot to Rig Contracts, Defendant in Graft Case Claims
Víctor de Aldama said the prime minister sat at the top of a scheme that prosecutors say steered contracts and financed the Socialists.
- On Wednesday, businessman Aldama testified at the Supreme Court that Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez led a criminal organization rigging public contracts and illegally funding the Socialist party.
- The trial of former transport minister José Luis Ábalos began April 7th on charges of bribery and embezzlement tied to Covid-19 mask contracts, with prosecutors seeking 24 years in prison.
- Aldama alleged Sánchez sat at 'level one' of the hierarchy, telling the court the prime minister and former adviser Koldo García maintained a 'closeness,' with Sánchez allegedly saying García 'owes me a lot.'
- Senior Socialist official Rebeca Torro slammed the allegations as 'slander,' stating Aldama 'has turned lies into his defence strategy,' while Sánchez has consistently denied illegal financing of the Socialist party.
- Opposition parties Popular Party and Vox are demanding Sánchez's resignation citing systemic corruption, though the prime minister plans to remain in office until the scheduled 2027 general election.
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He is the accused, but he is the one who casts the most common accusations. It is the court, but his story sounds like the final trial for others. He is the alleged corrupter, but he draws for the court a scheme where he was only a poor pawnAldama tries to involve Pedro Sánchez in the corrupt plot of Ábalos and Koldo García: “He was on ladder 1” The businessman Victor de Aldama has declared in the trial of the Ábalos case, Koldo case, Mascarilla…
In the corruption process against a Spanish ex-transport minister, a witness has made accusations against head of government Sánchez, who leads a criminal organisation.
Empresario accused Pedro Sánchez of leading the corruption network that would have the purpose of financing the PSOE. Socialists accuse Victor de Aldama of being a "minor" and PP challenges the government leader.
The commissioner has argued that, if there was a criminal organization, the number one was Pedro Sanchez and then there were Abalos, Koldo and himself.
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der Standard DEThe Spanish head of government is said to be at the head of a criminal association, said businessman Víctor de Aldama in his testimony in the corruption process
The businessman assured in the Supreme that the president knew and allowed the businesses of the plot of Ábalos and Koldo.During his seven hours of intervention he also accused Sánchez of participating in the illegal financing of the PSOE and of agreeing a contract of 2,500M.
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