Overview

• The Guardia Civil’s UCO has delivered intercepted WhatsApp messages to Judge Santiago Pedraz in the hydrocarbons VAT fraud probe that estimates a €182 million loss to the Treasury.
• The exchanges show Koldo García contacting chiefs of staff in Industry and Transición Ecológica — Juan Ignacio Díaz Bidart and Marc Pons — and, according to El Mundo, seeking help from Carlos Moreno for a tax deferral requested by a company tied to Víctor de Aldama.
• Villafuel, the firm at the center of the lobbying, obtained an operator licence in September 2022 after submitting extra documentation, which the ministry later revoked by inhabilitating the company in February 2025.
• Separate chats document García mediating a proposed sale of a Valencia ground-floor property from Ábalos and a co-owner to businessman Manuel Salles, who is under investigation; the deal did not close.
• Newly published messages show Ábalos asking García to move quickly on a house in Rivas‑Vaciamadrid, which García forwarded to Salles for potential financing help, while investigators characterize Ábalos as the network’s “padrino.”