It will have to look for “in garages, private parking spaces (including vehicles parked in them) and any other units attached to the private home, registered office or offices, such as basements, storage rooms, counters, heating or file rooms, roofs, etc …, as well as Any safearmored or similar fourth that could be found inside the properties…. ” The entrance and registration requests formulating the Central Operational Unit (UCO) of the Civil Guard against members of the Koldo-Aácos-Cardán plot They contemplate that long list of corners where cash, jewelry or cryptocurrency purses could be saved.
These requests to be prolific, but try to that is not hiding without providing When they rise to the instructor judge of the Supreme Court, Leopoldo Puente. It is also a consequence – they have known sources of the investigation – of a suspicion that researchers can extract from the numerous episodes and indications in which the protagonists of the plot exchange cash.
Count and sound tickets have in the investigation of the Cerdán plot, so far, a much greater prominence than Credit cards, omnipresent in other cases of corruption. They are not mentionedas if they were absent in the portfolio of the then Minister Ábalos in one of his most famous conversations with Koldo García Izaguirrethat of November 23, 2023: “What do I know, Koldo. I only know that I don't have a hard fucking. But, but, I don't know, I'm going with fifty euros for all the fucking week, yes, I'm stretching them that you shit. ”
A for money
Testing in order is another crucial detail in LA search for money, the main proof of the alleged crimes committed by the network, which does not finish appearing. The UCO is not only after the 479 accounts whose numbers sought the guards in the FINANCIAL HOLDER FILEthe Information Reservoir to Prevent Mafias and Terrorism financing that was created under command of the Secretariat of State for Economics.
With the search for the footprints of transfers or movements greater than 300 euros Having spent more than 10 years of the starting point of the investigation (2014), the tracking is even more difficult if what they have moved are bills of bills.
The aforementioned sources grant a few possibilities of permanence to cash “having spent so much time since they know they are investigated,” but at the same time give them the value that their search is more complex. AND Mecove cash appearances in the case. On January 21, 2021 Koldo García tells him Santos Cerdán: “450 euros were given in three envelopes.” It is in the same conversation, also key in the case, in which former PSOE number 3 recriminates Koldo: “I don't want you to talk about this, that it is not spoken.”
The operation of the envelopes and the cash deliveries accompanies in parallel to the transfers or donations made by the companies of the plot, such as Servinabar with the Fialdelso Foundation of José Luis Ábalos. In November 2023, Koldo records himself talking to the already former minister, saying: “The son of saints He has stayed with money, who has done it in front of me ”, And later: “I can tell you a thousand things, win Tickets from whom hundred who gave him Guipúzcoa ”, by Antxon Alonsothe owner of the Servinabar firm.
Sniffing the pasta
So far, the Civil Guard has used in the records of this investigation even Trained dogs to search for tickets. On two occasions, the dogs have entered the house of the Commissioner Víctor de Aldamain March and November 2024.
At the beginning of the investigation, when what was looked at were commissions in the sale of masks, the UCO took note of Aldama's confession according to which he resolved a “disagreement” with Santos Cerdán giving 15,000 euros in cash.
In the same way, researchers believe that those contracts of the masks or favors received for the rescue of Air Europa “would constitute part of the reason for being of the Monthly consideration of 10,000 euros in cash that Aldama had been paying Koldo, at least since October 2019 in a kind of payroll (…) and at least until September 2022 ”already with Koldo and Ábalos outside the ministry.
Many tickets
He did not take the UCO dogs to the house and the low nearby of Ábalos in Valencia in the registry last June 10, however, despite the fact that, to ask the judge for permission for the entrance, the agents of Lieutenant Colonel Antonio repliedwho had already found that Ábalos stopped using visas, they argue: “They are considered places susceptible to house and contain Information – Physics and Digital–, Effects of interest for research as well as cash. ”In the same way we talk about possible amounts of metallic money in requests for records to entrepreneurs Antonio Fernández (Public works and irrigation) and José Ruz (Levantine Engineering and Construction).
“He cash It is always in the background, ”says one of the aforementioned knowledgeable sources of the investigations, to explain that the search for cash is basic and habitual in any record involved in corruption or organized crime. For the UCO, the UCO also seems quite supported by the exchange of money in personal, private meetings, As, supposedly, saints Cerdán seeking maximum discretion.
They are certainly the deliveries that leave the least trace. Not only for bills, but also “Other means of payment, works of art, jewels and the like They have a remarkable value, ”consider the guards in one of their registration requests granted so far.
The search for money in cash and its trail has also understood the way in which, supposedly, and Through the Franky Bar in Pamplona, he rewarded Koldo García. It was allegedly the idea of the bar advisor, Miguel Moreno: The bar sends a fictitious invoice to ACCIONA; The construction company pays with a transfer to the bar; Franky, with money charged already, gives it to Koldo García.
How is that delivery made graphically the UCO in a Diagram sent to the judge to explain at a glance what the guards call “compensation method” of the plot: drawn in the center of the scheme, A bundle of green tickets of 100 euros and the “effective” note.
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