The commission agent Víctor de Aldama has once again insisted that the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, was aware of the plot. “If there is a hierarchy, and I am obviously in the organized, criminal gang, the President of the Government Pedro Sánchez is on rank one; Mr. Ábalos is number two, because he is the one who gave and granted; Mr. Koldo García, on rank three, and I, on rank four,” he said. He has narrated how he met Pedro Sánchez at a rally in Madrid. “Thank you for everything, I know what you are doing and thank you,” Aldama said the president told him. The fleeting meeting occurred in the first moments of the relationship with Aldama and before the irregularities that the businessman has confessed during the investigation began. He has also related how he got “to the point” of starting to “give money” to Ábalos and Koldo: “A series of fixed monthly expenses are put on the table (the ex-wife, the children, the school…), which he has estimated at 10,000 euros, which he assures that he paid to both from 2019 to the end of 2022. In addition, he has also assured that he carried “bites” of cash to the Ministry in a backpack, up to 250,000. euros, paid by construction companies to which construction tenders were awarded. Koldo told him that the payments from these construction companies were “for the financing of the party” and that the president “was clear about what we were doing.”
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