The Central Operative Unit (UCO) of the Guardia Civil has highlighted the "degree of connection" that would have existed between the PSOE and Cristian Corvillo, who would have served as an occasional driver for the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, during the PSOE primaries in 2017 and who was arrested last week.
This is set out in a report that Europa Press has obtained access to, sent by the UCO to the judge of the National Court who is investigating the 'Koldo case', Ismael Moreno, and which is included in the case file.
The investigators deduce this "connection" from a WhatsApp chat intercepted between Corvillo and the businessman and alleged beneficiary of the 'Koldo case', Víctor de Aldama, dated 19 April 2023.
In the document, the UCO specifies that "there is a conversation between Corvillo and Aldama that is revealing both in terms of the degree of Corvillo's connection with the PSOE, by referring to maintaining direct contact with the party's General Secretary and President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, and in terms of his knowledge of matters related to (the former minister José Luis) Ábalos, on which he deals directly with him."
"Tomorrow the president is coming to Córdoba and I have a private meeting with him; Óscar López called me," one of the messages states. The next day, Corvillo wrote to Aldama again to inform him: "With the president, top-notch."
According to the UCO, the reason for that chat would have been "to talk about the 'boss', a term used to refer to Ábalos." "Conversation, logically, to talk about the boss, in short, everything perfect," Corvillo stressed to Aldama. "Top-notch, top-notch," he added.
The meeting with Sánchez would have taken place on 20 April, with an approximate duration of 35 minutes, and both would have remained "alone together," according to the messages that Corvillo sent to the businessman. "That Óscar López had called me to see if I could be with him for a while. Too good, for my taste. Talking to me about my wife, about the cake he made for her on her birthday, in short, I don't know, everything is strange," he told him.
In another message, the person identified as Sánchez's former driver added: "That if, with the 'boss' issue, things were rushed. It gave me to understand that they tricked him."
The agents also highlight that Corvillo’s link with Ábalos and his former adviser Koldo García presented "its own dynamic, different from his connection with Aldama". "Thus, despite the deterioration in relations between this one and the Koldo-Ábalos pairing, Corvillo would have maintained his communication with the three investigated parties," they state.
The UCO also mentions a chain of communications throughout 2023 that "would point to Corvillo’s role as a connecting element between Aldama and Ábalos, facilitating the delivery of cash to the latter".
Clues about contracts in Transportes and Adif
In this scenario, the Guardia Civil highlights "indications" that Corvillo would have relied on Koldo in an attempt to influence tenders from bodies dependent on the Ministry of Transport, especially in Adif and in the State Company for Infrastructure of Land Transport (SEITT).
The Benemérita notes possible irregularities in the award of the services contract for the conservation and operation of the AP-7 motorway Cartagena-Vera, for an amount of 6,184,722.41 euros.
According to the report, in March 2019, "ten days after the publication of the call for tenders notice", the former adviser and Corvillo, "together with a third person", held a meeting at the Transport headquarters. A year later, there would have been "communications between Corvillo, Koldo and Aldama that would point to his involvement in contracting".
The UCO reports that, after meeting with the broker, Corvillo "asked Koldo" at what time they could meet. "Minutes later, Koldo informed him that they could not arrange to meet," the report continues, to which the former chauffeur replied: "This one already talks with you."
For the investigators, "this expression allows it to be inferred that, since it was not possible to keep an in-person meeting" with the former adviser, the matter would have been dealt with "with Aldama".
The report also highlights other messages that "would point to a connection between the AP-7 contract, awarded to the Temporary Business Union (UTE) Aquaterra Servicios Infraestructuras-Servicios Técnicos Napal, and the arrangements maintained by Corvillo with Koldo, whom he refers to as 'our friend'".
The agents remember that Sánchez’s driver mentioned the company Aquaterra when he sent Koldo a screenshot in which it was seen that a UTE of this company with Acciona had been awarded another contract. That case file was identified in another proceeding "as one of those allegedly awarded irregularly and possible irregular commissions were analyzed that Koldo, Ábalos would have received" and the former socialist leader Santos Cerdán, also charged.
"I’m going to sort your life out": high-speed works and cleaning
Likewise, the Guardia Civil focuses on the fact that the UTE Sevilla Nevado-Azvi was awarded, in July 2019, the contract for the execution works of the platform of the Madrid-Extremadura high-speed line, in the San Rafael-Cuarto de la Jara section, for an amount of 28,271,088.80 euros.
The award was agreed "by agreement of the Board of Directors of Adif Alta Velocidad, chaired at that time by Isabel Pardo de Vera," also investigated in the case.
Before the competition was resolved, Corvillo and Koldo maintained several contacts from which the UCO extracts "evidence of the possible involvement of Corvillo, through Koldo, in favor of the awarded UTE."
On 20 November 2018, Corvillo went to the Transport headquarters to meet with the former adviser. After the meeting, the driver told him: "You’ve left me messed up with what you told me," to which Koldo replied that "by phone, no, that’s not it."
That same afternoon, the former adviser sent a message to Pardo de Vera "to ask her to call him when she could," according to the UCO. "These events are relevant for their temporal proximity to the tender announcement, published first thing the next day and promoted by the Board of Directors of Adif Alta Velocidad," the report stresses.
In December 2018, the rectification of the tender terms for La Jara was circulated. In those dates, the UCO detects "a sequence of meetings and communications maintained between Corvillo, Koldo and Pardo de Vera," which culminated with several messages from the former adviser to the driver: "I’m going to sort your life out. Don’t worry. I’m going to eat you up with kisses."
Months later, “on the eve of the award,” the UCO notes that these three people “exchanged messages again in order to meet in person”: “I’m there both days and we wrap up our issue,” Corvillo wrote to Koldo. Two days later, they were seen at the Ministry, the same day on which the UCO places a message from Koldo to the former chairwoman of Adif, urging her to hold a meeting.
“The temporal proximity of both meetings is relevant, given that the following day the Board of Directors of Adif put forward the proposal to award the works of La Jara in favor of the UTE Construcciones Sevilla Nevado-Azvi,” the report concludes.
At the same time, the UCO detects possible irregularities in the award “of the contract for the provision of the cleaning service for the premises of the Adif building” in Madrid.
According to the document, the award “took place on January 8, 2019, by means of a resolution signed by the director general of Circulation and Capacity Management of Adif, José Estrada.” The agents point out, however, “signs that Corvillo would have used Koldo to favor the award of the contract to said company through Pardo de Vera.”