The businessman and alleged intermediary in the 'Koldo case', Víctor de Aldama, has stated before the Supreme Court, in his capacity as a defendant, that he was forced to cancel a proposal submitted to SEPI to acquire a plot in the center of Madrid after the ministerial advisor Koldo García informed him that Begoña Gómez, wife of the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, said "that she wants it for herself".
Aldama has recounted this episode when the Chief Prosecutor of Anti-Corruption, Alejandro Luzón, questioned him about how he established contact with Carlos Moreno, former chief of staff of the former Minister of Finance. According to his version, he got in touch with him after receiving information from Koldo that there were going to be "opportunities from SEPI to buy".
The operation to which he has referred was the Campos Velázquez real estate complex, located between "María de Molina, Serrano and two other adjoining streets", with a surface area of 43,000 square meters. He has indicated that an investment fund hired him to manage the acquisition of that asset.
"At that moment we had gone down from 250 million euros, if I'm not mistaken, to 208 million euros, for which I have a contract to sell that. If it is sold within six months of the presentation of that offer, 20 million euros commission, and if it is sold after those six months, 15 million euros commission," he detailed about the agreed economic conditions.
After "three or four months", Koldo conveyed to him that there was "a problem with Campos Velázquez" and communicated to him that he should "withdraw the offer": "Begoña Gómez, wife of the President of the Government Pedro Sánchez, has said that she wants Campos Velázquez for herself".
Faced with that situation, Aldama explained that he had to "withdraw the offer, with all that entails" and that, as a substitute, he was offered "land whose ownership even they do not know." According to his testimony, Koldo assured him that the matter was already "sorted out," although he specified that they had not received "any kind of official notification" about it.