The Central Operative Unit (UCO) of the Guardia Civil has highlighted the "degree of linkage" that would have existed between the PSOE and Cristian Corvillo, who would have acted as an occasional driver for the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, during the PSOE primaries of 2017 and who was arrested last week.
This is set out in a report that Europa Press has had access to and that the UCO has sent to the judge of the National Court (Audiencia Nacional) who is investigating the 'Koldo case', Ismael Moreno, a document that is integrated into the case file for the proceedings.
Investigators deduce this "linkage" from an intercepted WhatsApp conversation between Corvillo and the businessman and alleged fixer in the 'Koldo case', Víctor de Aldama, dated 19 April 2023.
In the report, the UCO explains that "a conversation has been identified between Corvillo and Aldama that is revealing both of Corvillo's degree of linkage with the PSOE, by referring to maintaining direct communication with the party's general secretary and President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, and of his knowledge of matters related to (the former minister José Luis) Ábalos, on which he deals directly with him".
In one of those messages, Corvillo writes: "Tomorrow the president comes to Córdoba and I have a private meeting with him; he called me Óscar López." The next day, he again addressed Aldama to point out: "With the president, top-notch."
According to the UCO's interpretation, the purpose of that exchange would have been "to talk about the 'boss', a term used to refer to Ábalos." Corvillo himself ends the comment with the phrase: "Conversation logically to talk about the boss, in short, everything perfect."
The agents also highlight that Corvillo's connection with Ábalos and his former adviser Koldo García presented "a distinct dynamic, different from his linkage with Aldama".
Corvillo as a link between Aldama, Ábalos and Koldo
"Thus, despite the deterioration of the relationship between him and the Koldo-Ábalos pairing, Corvillo would have maintained his communication with the three individuals under investigation," the agents state in the document sent to the judge.
The UCO details a chain of communications in 2023 that "would point to Corvillo's role as an element of connection between Aldama and Ábalos, facilitating the delivery of cash to the latter".
The report goes deeper into the relationship between Aldama, Corvillo and Koldo within the chapter devoted to the alleged irregularities in the awarding of public contracts.
In that context, the Guardia Civil describes how, after a meeting with the broker, Corvillo "asked Koldo" what time they could meet. "Minutes later, Koldo told him that they couldn’t meet," the document continues, to which the former driver replied: "Now this speaks with you."
For the UCO, "this expression allows it to be inferred that since it was not possible to have a face-to-face meeting" with the former adviser, the matter would have been dealt with between him and a third person which, according to the investigators, "would correspond to Aldama."