The corrupt plot scandal that nested in the Ministry of Transportation during the mandate of José Luis Ábalos (2018-2021) threatens to knock down the government and grows based on serious revelations, but also of exaggerations, half truths and complete bulles.
The commissioner Víctor Aldama – imputed in several causes and corrupt confessed -, the Popular Party – who enthusiastically supports this supposed criminal – and the media related to conservative formation – where the businessman under suspicion usually places his serious accusations without evidence – promoting for months a campaign against the government loaded with lies and disinformation on account of the Koldo/Ábalos case.
Meanwhile, the illegal adventures of the corrupt plot, many accredited during the judicial investigation initiated more than two years ago, keep the Executive in suspense.
The main protagonist of the scandal, José Luis Ábalos, was Pedro Sánchez's right hand in the party, as secretary of Organization, and in the Government, as Minister of Transportation. The commissionist Aldama, the scandal engine, was for at least three years – between 2018 and 2021 – the “corrupting link” in the ministry, bribing with money and favors to Ábalos and his main advisor, Koldo García, according to some of the evidence that the judicial investigation has met.
Ábalos ordered to place several women in companies dependent on their ministry and an Aldama Testaferro paid for more than two years the rental of an apartment for whom the sentimental couple of the former minister was. The corrupting link, Víctor Aldama, was enriched in turn – he won six million euros through the mask contract that awarded him by finger the Ministry of Transport in the worst of the pandemic – and confessed to the judge who also participated in a network of public works contracts distributing the bite with Ábalos and Koldo García.
But at this point, despite all the indications of crime that point to Ábalos and Koldo, nothing investigated and discovered so far, it accredits corruption in the PSOE that for months announcing “exclusively” various means to which the PP jelly. The last report of the UCO, which, like previous ones, collects some bulk errors, has caused holders about the 'Box B' and the irregular financing of the PSOE in the usual media and without any base.
To this corrupt plot, the most serious in the recent history of the PSOE, numerous bulls have sprouted in the last year. They are the following:
No box B or illegal financing in sight
The photograph of an envelope with the PSOE logo and a transparent window through which you could see tickets of different value unleashed last Friday all kinds of conspiracy theories about the 'Box B' or the “irregular financing” of the PSOE. But the Civil Guard report only accounted for a primitive payment of metallic payments to socialist leaders for their expenses to justify by receipts or invoices. The majority of companies make these expenses liquidations after presenting invoices by bank transfer.
The PP maintained a 'box B' for almost 20 years in which donations of contractors prohibited by law entered. With that money never declared to the Treasury – eight million euros between 1990 and 2009 – their main executives were paid to their main executives – hundreds of thousands of euros per manager – or part of the reform works of the headquarters of the PP were financed. Of that 'Box B', there is evidence in two sentences confirmed by the Supreme Court. When these events occurred, the Criminal Code did not yet include the crime of illegal financing.
For its part, now the PSOE has sent to the Supreme a relationship of the payments in cash to José Luis Ábalos and his advisor Koldo García through the party of the party fed with legal funds and declared to the Court of Accounts, according to the socialist leaders.
The Civil Guard has only detected that the amounts of some envelopes on which Koldo's wife, secretary of Ábalos, reported by WhatsApp her husband do not coincide with those recorded by the PSOE in the report sent to the Supreme. But PSOE himself offered last Friday to clear doubts about that suspicion. The Civil Guard requires a difference of 505 euros in one of the deliveries to Ábalos in envelopes. The PSOE explains that difference because the missing amount corresponded to expenses of collaborators of Ábalos in the Ministry of Organization. Socialist sources indicate without being able to prove that, probably, the former Minister of Transportation passed expenses that were not his. But that supposed deception does not prove the existence of a 'Box B' or the irregular financing of the PSOE. For the moment.
The investigating judge of this case has not pointed in any of his cars to the existence of indications of irregular financing of the PSOE. This crime was introduced into the Criminal Code of 2015 and the penalties vary, according to the amount of illegal contributions, from a fine to four years in jail and in the most serious case the suspension for five years of the activity of political formation.
Half Government, Begoña Gómez and the Attorney General, with fortunes in the Dominican Republic: all false
Aldama Airó in the Cope chain, a regular scenario of his accusations without evidence, that at least six government ministers, the wife of the president and the state attorney general hid large amounts of money in banks of the Dominican Republic. Aldama “had seen screenshots” that showed, for example, that Begoña Gómez hid in that country to “six million dollars.” The commissioner knew the complaint that a private individual had filed on January 13, 2025. “He has it very well tied. I have seen the traceability of the accounts. It seems very serious,” Aldama said in Cope.
The Aldama Patraña had its origin in a written complaint filed by an individual in the Anti -Corruption Prosecutor and in the Senate with documents that, at first glance, seemed like a gross falsification. The president of the Senate, Pedro Rollán (PP) sent the complaint to the president of the General Council of the Judiciary, Isabel Perelló, who in turn sent her to the Second Chamber of the Supreme Court. Meanwhile, in the Anti -Corruption Prosecutor it took very little to scare away the suspicion for its “null credibility”. “The documents provided,” said Anticorruci Spanish and without any distinctive of the brand or name of the bank ”.
Only eight months after that colossal Bulo, Aldama returned to the streets in the COPE: “We can talk about Indra. They (the socialist leaders) spoke in the generals of the famous urns who arrived in IFEMA, there are Indra employees who could go out to talk about what I am saying now, of electoral fraud.” There is not a single proof that the Indra company or the PSOE manipulates the electoral process.
Aldama, free after promising that he would collaborate with justice providing relevant information on the Koldo case, has been spreading very serious accusations without evidence against the Government and the PSOE.
Neither Audi trace for Cerdán nor Volvo for his wife
A few weeks before the UCO referred to the judge the report involved in the Amaño of Public Works Contracts to Santos Cerdán, Secretary of Organization of the PSOE, some means related to the PP Aired the alleged content of that report. One of them came to ensure that Víctor Aldama had “paid two vehicles to Santos Cerdán, an Audi brand car for number three of the PSOE and a Volvo for his wife.”
The report finally came, and caused the judge to order the provisional prison of Santos Cerdan, which was attributed to the headquarters of a corrupt plot to rise contracts in exchange for illegal commissions worth at least five million euros. But neither the Audi nor the Volvo appeared anywhere.
Expenses of 800,000 euros of Ábalos that hid the illegal financing of the PSOE
Another media related to the PP Airó days ago that the Civil Guard investigation had uncovered that Ábalos had presented expenses for 800,000 euros in 30 months to complement its salary (a plus of 27,000 euros per month). The UCO, for the moment, has not found anything similar, has not even approached those figures: in 10 years, Ábalos spent 95,000 euros without justification, of unknown origin, according to the Civil Guard.
Not two million in a Colombian floor, not half a million euros in exempt diets
The UCO confused Colombian weights with dollars and attributed to Ábalos a property in Colombia valued at two million dollars, they were actually Colombian pesos that, to change, barely exceeded 700 euros. The UCO had to rectify. Later, he alluded to numerous “tax -exempt payments” to the former Minister of Transportation that added 508,000 euros. Actually, it was an error of the Ministry itself since this money corresponded to the expenses in diets and displacements of the personnel that accompanied Ábalos in institutional trips. However, these amounts attributed to Ábalos continue to appear in the last report of the UCO without clarifying that it is an error of the ministry by accounting for the payment of diets and displacements.