Overview
- Spain’s Guardia Civil UCO report concludes Ángel Víctor Torres committed no criminal act in the roughly €12 million mask contract with Soluciones de Gestión.
- Investigators document only one WhatsApp from Víctor de Aldama and a short meeting, including a message proposing an antigen test shipment.
- Torres says he will file a civil suit against Aldama for invasion of honour, privacy and image, calling for apologies over defamatory claims.
- The Supreme Court has sent the related case to trial for José Luis Ábalos, Víctor de Aldama and Koldo García without charging Torres.
- Government sources express relief and frame Torres’s push for payment as occurring during severe supply shortages, while Torres says he was unaware of officials’ pricing concerns at the time.