The messages revealed by the UCO place Óscar López as the promoter of Sánchez's meeting with the driver of the plot: "Everything is strange"

Pedro Sánchez not only saw Cristian Corvillo, a PSOE activist, his former campaign driver in the 2017 PSOE primaries and today accused in the Koldo plot, but he also met him for 35 minutes, in a meeting alone between the two, in Córdoba in April 2023.

That meeting between the now last detainee of the plot and the President of the Government took place at the request of Moncloa: it was Óscar López, then director of the Presidency's Cabinet and now a minister, who called Corvillo, apparently an insignificant provincial militant - in reality, one of the alleged intermediaries and launderers of the Koldo plot - to meet with Sánchez who had already been in Moncloa for almost five years at that time.

This is supported by the Central Operational Unit of the Civil Guard (UCO), based on the conversations found on Corvillo's cell phone, contrary to what was stated last week by Sánchez, who denied knowing the accused with the phrase: "None of those people have anything to do with me." This Thursday the Government once again denied the major and said that "that meeting has never existed and of course that man never spoke with Óscar López."

The new UCO report, on the other hand, points out that this statement is false, giving credibility to the meeting between the president and the intermediary, as the latter tells his partner and close friend Víctor de Aldama a day later, on April 20, 2023. The agents do not fail to point out in the document, to which EL MUNDO has had access, not only the appointment, but that the impulse came from Moncloa and Corvillo's genuine surprise at the attention that the President of the Government had given him, in a meeting that was, moreover, not exactly short.

All of this, along with the projected resurrection of José Luis Ábalos for the PSOE and the Government, after having been removed from all his positions almost two years earlier, emerges from the messages between Corvillo and Aldama, whose integrity is not at all wasted. The following conversation takes place in just two minutes, starting at 8:51 p.m. that day, and the UCO finds it on the former driver's cell phone.

–Corvillo: With the luxury president, luxury. Conversation logically to talk about the boss, everything perfect [in reference to Ábalos].

–Aldama: And what is this? [asking about previous message]

–C: Pedro Sánchez.

–A: I don't understand.

–C: Yesterday I told you that today I saw Pedro Sánchez in Córdoba. We have been alone for about 35 minutes. I told you yesterday.

–A: Yes, it is true.

–C: That Óscar López had called me to see if I could be with him for a while.

–A: Well then?

–C: Too good for my taste. Talking to me about my wife [Cristian had driven for Sánchez six years earlier, in the 2017 primaries, and some sources claim that he even slept and had lunch at his house, in Córdoba].

–A: Damn.

–C: About the cake he made for her birthday. In the end. What do I know? Everything is strange. What if with the boss issue he was hasty. He gave me to understand that he was deceived.

In just two minutes, Corvillo tells a stupefied Aldama – that revealing "fuck" – that his conversation with the President of the Government had gone "too well" for his "taste", that "everything" had been "strange", and that the President had shown him a closeness that Corvillo himself considered suspicious: "Talking to me about my wife. About the cake he made for her on her birthday."

Multiple sources from the Andalusian PSOE and the case claim that Corvillo had been very close to Sánchez during the 2017 primaries. The accused himself then uploaded a photo to social networks in which the later president posed for him eating a paella after a PSOE event, and then in what appears to be Corvillo's home, where Sánchez would have spent time between campaign events.

The cake to which the man from Córdoba refers, cooked by his wife and which the president supposedly remembered, would come from that time: Sánchez's birthday is on February 29 and his presence in Córdoba, with Corvillo, in April 2017 is recorded. The Civil Guard points directly to the striking fact that the meeting also took place at the explicit request of Moncloa, which is also evident in the message that Corvillo sends to Aldama one day before the own meeting, and which reads like this: "Tomorrow the president is coming to Córdoba and I have a private meeting with him, Óscar López called me."

Corvillo has already become a well-known character in the Córdoba PSOE at the time the meeting takes place, but not at all of such importance as to justify Sánchez himself giving him 35 minutes of his time.

The intention of the plot also plays an important role, strikingly through Corvillo, so that former Minister Ábalos could return to the front line, almost two years after being defenestrated.

For the conspirators, having Ábalos politically alive was key, and not only does it happen that in that April 2023 conversation the president assures him that he will count on him again: it is that in the lists just three months later, in June, when the PSOE goes out to try to govern again, Sánchez fully rehabilitates Ábalos and places him number two on the list for Valencia no less, one of the most coveted in the country.

All "strange" in any case for Corvillo, who leaves Aldama stunned with his sudden closeness to Sánchez. The plot gains height from that moment on, and Corvillo's role becomes central in the structure of laundering profits allegedly achieved through bribes.

In this new report, the UCO indicates that an Adif High Speed ​​contract in Extremadura, in the San Rafael - Cuarto de la Jara section, was suspected of having been rigged; another contract for maintenance and conservation of the A-7 highway, and another for cleaning some Adif facilities in Méndez Álvaro, Madrid. Corvillo "would have used it to influence tenders called by organizations dependent on Transport", and "would have facilitated the delivery of money to Ábalos", says the UCO.