Overview
- The handover took place last week at Spain’s Audiencia Nacional after an earlier appointment was canceled following media leaks.
- Following the delivery, Víctor de Aldama gave roughly an hour of testimony about the envelope’s origin and contents before Judge Ismael Moreno with an Anticorruption prosecutor present.
- The Guardia Civil’s UCO previously intercepted a WhatsApp photo of an envelope labeled “confidential” with PDVSA insignia, listing Manuel Quevedo as sender and Delcy Rodríguez as recipient.
- In a January 29 appearance before Judge Santiago Pedraz, Aldama alleged the documents tie hydrocarbons business dealings to illegal financing of the PSOE and the Socialist International, claiming Rodríguez gave him the envelope in 2020.
- Pedraz sent that testimony to Moreno, who is examining cash reimbursements within the PSOE in a separated piece of the Koldo case that has been placed under secrecy.