The judge of the Audiencia Nacional who is investigating the Koldo case Koldo case will take a statement this Tuesday to Carmen Pano, the businesswoman who claimed to have delivered 90,000 euros at the PSOE headquarters in Ferraz in October 2020, allegedly on the orders of Victor de Aldama, considered the alleged procurer of the plot.
That same day, starting at 10:00 a.m., his daughter, Leonor González Pano, will also testify, after the Criminal Chamber urged Judge Ismael Moreno to take a statement from both of them, following the initial refusal of the investigator.
Investigation into alleged money transfer
Carmen Pano’ s summons comes after the popular accusation, exercised by Iustitia Europa, appealed the judge’s decision not to call her to testify. In its appeal, the association linked Pano and her daughter with Víctor de Aldama, assuring that he provided them with interviews at the Ministry of Industry to obtain a hydrocarbon operator’s license for the company Villafuel, key in the alleged VAT fraud in the hydrocarbons sector, another plot in which both are investigated.
According to Iustitia Europa’s brief, the license was granted in 2022, two years after Carmen Pano allegedly handed over the 90,000 euros in Ferraz by order of De Aldama, as she herself stated in declarations to a digital media.
Discrepancies between the Prosecutor’s Office and the Criminal Chamber
The prosecution objected to the subpoena of both witnesses, requesting that their cell phones first be analyzed to search for evidence to corroborate the alleged delivery of the money.
However, the Criminal Chamber considered that this test should be carried out after his statement, since his testimony is a “useful and protean” diligence to clarify the facts in the investigation of the Koldo case. Koldo case.
The interrogation next Tuesday could provide new clues about the alleged irregular financing linked to the corruption scheme and its connection with the granting of licenses in the hydrocarbons sector.
The Balearic branch of the ‘Koldo case’.
The ‘Koldo case’ has an important ramification in the Balearic Islands, since the plot of alleged corruption in the purchase of masks in the pandemic splashes the former president of the Balearic Government and current president of the Congress, Francina Armengol.
During his term, the Govern awarded a 3.7 million euro contract to the company linked to the scheme, Soluciones de Gestión.
The purchase of medical equipment, now under suspicion, was carried out within the framework of the state of alarm, with a procedure that is being analyzed by the Audiencia Nacional.
The Balearic PP has demanded explanations to Armengol, while the Public Prosecutor’s Office investigates if there was favored treatment in the awarding and if the cost overruns in the masks imply a possible embezzlement of public funds.
