Carmen Pano confirms in the Supreme that she delivered 90,000 euros to Ferraz by order of Aldama

The businessman Carmen Pano stated on Thursday before the Supreme Court that she delivered a total of 90,000 euros in cash at the PSOE headquarters on Ferraz Street in Madrid at the request of businessman Victor de Aldama, who, according to her testimony, made two deliveries of 45,000 euros and does not know the final recipient or the reason for these payments.

Pano, who has testified as a witness in the trial for the alleged plot of masks to deal with the pandemic, has explained that in both cases he was received by a person waiting for him on the second floor of the building. The businessman has stated that he acted as a personal favour to Aldama, who asked him to deliver because he could not attend.

In addition, Pano has confirmed that Aldama informed him that former Minister José Luis Ábalos "wanted a house" for mediating the obtaining of a hydrocarbon licence for the Villafuel company. He has stated that a villa was purchased for this purpose in La Alcaidesa (Cadiz), but has explained that after Ábalos left the Government, this intention was abandoned.

Leonor González, daughter of Carmen Pano, has supported part of her mother's testimony and stated that it was believed that obtaining a licence in Aldama's business environment depended on Ábalos remaining in the Spanish Government.

For his part, the former manager of the public company Logirail, Enrique Martínez, has also stated before the Supreme that he received two calls from former ministerial adviser Koldo García, in a "threatening" tone, after Claudia Montes, a workplace mine linked to the Ábalos environment, reported alleged mistreatment within the company.