EDATV Why Have They Suspended Carmen Pano's Statement Saying She Took Money to Ferraz?
On the 25th, she must testify before the Supreme Court as a defendant in hydrocarbons, like her daughter.
Carmen Pano is one of the names of the day, or at least she has been. However, Judge Ismael Moreno, head of the Central Investigative Court number 2 of the National Court, has decided to suspend the statement.
The same one that was scheduled for this Tuesday for the businesswoman Carmen Pano and her daughter, Leonor. Both were going to appear as witnesses in the Koldo case. They are summoned again on February 25 at the Supreme Court, where they will also be questioned in relation to a part of the case involving former minister José Luis Ábalos.
Before the hearing scheduled for ten in the morning, the judge called the accusations to explain how to proceed. Since both are also charged in the case investigating a major fraud related to hydrocarbons. The statement of both on aspects connected with the broker Víctor de Aldama, which link both investigations, could cause them defenselessness.
From the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office, the suspension of the statement was requested. All emphasizing that on February 25 both must appear in the Supreme Court, and there, that they do so with the presence of a lawyer. This measure seeks to avoid any possible defenselessness, considering that it is the same case.
Carmen Pano, the businesswoman who previously revealed exclusively to THE OBJECTIVE that she delivered 90,000 euros at the PSOE headquarters in Ferraz. By order of the broker Víctor de Aldama, she will confirm her testimony before Judge Moreno.
According to said media, the witness will also confirm that the hydrocarbon network, which evaded more than 400 million euros in VAT, would have gifted a house to former minister José Luis Ábalos. In exchange for facilitating a license for the sale of fuel.
In her first public interview, Carmen Pano stated: "I am Carmen Pano and I was the person who, following instructions from Víctor Gonzalo de Aldama, delivered 90,000 euros on Ferraz Street." She explained that she transported that money as part of a series of payments that had been entrusted to her. "For reasons I don't know, Aldama couldn't make the delivery personally, so he asked me to do it," she detailed.
About the exact moment of the transaction, she stated: "This happened at the end of 2020. I went to Ferraz, where they were already waiting for me. I went up to the second floor, handed the bag with the money to a person who was waiting for me, and then I left."
However, now we can only wait until next February 25 to know her statement and that of her daughter Leonor.
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