Overview
- Javier Sequi, identified by investigators as a frontman in the hydrocarbons VAT case, has asked to testify voluntarily before Judge Santiago Pedraz, with a hearing set for 9 December that his defense is seeking to postpone.
- The hydrocarbons inquiry attributes €231 million in alleged fraud to a network the UCO links to Víctor de Aldama and Claudio Rivas, citing seven interposed companies and the use of operator Villafuel to move fuel without declaring VAT.
- Case files tie €34.6 million in alleged fraud to Salamanca Fuel Center, administered by Sequi, with tax reports noting transfers to Atmosferaudaz in Portugal, a company administered by Aldama.
- In the Almería procurement probe, agents report handwritten instructions on official bid invitations prescribing exact discounts of 2%, 4% and 5% or noting “NADA,” plus WhatsApp exchanges that investigators say show favoritism tied to former deputy Óscar Liria and contracts under Plan Acelera 2020.
- Searches on 18–19 November seized €20,270 in cash, devices and weapons, including an envelope with €7,620 labeled as belonging to ex-president Javier Aureliano García, which the judge cites along with a cash-tracking table as indications of knowledge and participation in irregular awards.