The train procurement at issue covered 211 high-capacity Cercanías trains and involved Alstom and Stadler. In an interview on Telemadrid, businessman Víctor de Aldama said he wanted to speak before 29 November about what he described as a secret strand concerning illegal PSOE financing.
Aldama, convicted in the masks case by Spain’s Supreme Court, also alleged that Pedro Sánchez told former transport minister José Luis Ábalos to negotiate with Stadler over the contract. He said the company’s entry and exit records could verify visits linked to those talks. The interview does not establish that Sánchez intervened in the procurement; these remain Aldama’s claims.
The interview was broadcast on El análisis: Diario de la Noche, presented by Antonio Naranjo. Asked whether further information remained undisclosed, Aldama said there was much still to emerge and claimed he was not being allowed to discuss the financing issue. He also said he was not afraid of a complaint brought against him by Venezuela’s interim president, Delcy Rodríguez.
Aldama made a similar allegation in an appearance on the programme in October. He said Sánchez instructed Ábalos to handle the forthcoming train tender and speak to Stadler’s president, Iñigo Parra. Aldama claimed Ábalos then sent Koldo García and him to Valencia to meet Parra, adding that he had made several visits. He also alleged that a transport ministry official sent Koldo the tender before it became public, describing it as already awarded. Aldama said he had given an account of the matter in court.
In the latest interview, Aldama discussed Cristian Corvillo, who was detained by the UCO and released in a separate part of the Koldo case. He denied Corvillo had been Sánchez’s driver, saying that driving the president to an event amounted to a courtesy service for the party’s secretary-general. Aldama also referred to a 35-minute meeting between Sánchez and Corvillo recorded in a Guardia Civil report, and said Corvillo knew its purpose. RUSSPAIN has separately covered VOX’s criticism of the government over a strike in an earlier report.
