The Civil Guard arrests the alleged perpetrator of the ‘Koldo case’ in an operation for a million-dollar VAT fraud

This Monday, the Civil Guard arrested the alleged perpetrator of the ‘Koldo case’, the businessman Víctor de Aldama, and 13 other people in an operation directed by the National Court in coordination with the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office for alleged fraud against the Public Treasury. of 182 million euros in the hydrocarbon sector.

Through a press release, collected by Europa Press, the Public Ministry has reported on the “police operation” that has been carried out since this Monday against an alleged criminal organization that had a “series of instrumental corporate networks, used “both for fraud against the Public Treasury and for the laundering of illicitly obtained funds.”

Legal sources have confirmed to Europa Press that among those arrested is De Aldama, who is being investigated by the Central Court of Instruction Number 2 for what is known as the ‘Koldo case’, which is named after the former advisor of former minister José Luis Ábalos.

“Unlike other common criminal organizations, the type of criminal structure being worked on entails a high complexity for the investigation, since its activity in a legal sector such as hydrocarbons, added to the millionaire profits obtained in “Very short periods of time allow these organizations to position themselves in certain sectors with different spheres of power, achieving a high capacity for corruption over Administration officials,” says Anticorrupción.

The Prosecutor’s Office has explained that this police operation is being directed by the Central Court of Instruction Number 5 of the National Court, headed by Judge Santiago Pedraz. The cause has also been declared secret.

So far, 14 arrests have been made, as well as 11 entries and searches at homes and company headquarters, in several Spanish provinces, mainly in Madrid, Salamanca and Cáceres.