The Ministry of the Interior has agreed to the dismissal of the Civil Guard commander Rubén V.C. of his destiny as Interior attaché at the Venezuelan embassy in Caracas, after his indictment in the Koldo case for an alleged crime of bribery.
The Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, signed this Tuesday the dismissal of the commander, who was appointed at the proposal of the Secretary of State for Security, Interior sources have reported.
The commander was detained at the beginning of March at the Adolfo Suárez Madrid Barajas airport, where he arrived after taking a flight from Malaga, due to investigators’ suspicion that his final destination could be Venezuela.
After the search of his home in a town in Córdoba, he was released and was summoned days later to testify as being investigated before the judge of the National Court Ismael Moreno.
After his appearance, the judge in the Koldo case placed as precautionary measures the delivery of his passport, both the ordinary and the diplomatic one, and the prohibition of leaving Spain without judicial authorization.
At the time of his arrest at the airport, 4,835 dollars distributed in 1,724 bills of between 1 and 10 dollars were seized and he was taken to a search at his home.
He is being investigated for a crime of bribery following UCO evidence of “cash payments” of 2,000 euros per month by the commission agent of the plot, Víctor de Aldama.
The agents have also detected a “direct, personal and permanent link over time” of the commander with Aldama and Koldo García, former advisor to former minister José Luis Ábalos, and also highlight his “status as a civil guard” and “the fact that he had obtained a personal benefit” -the payments-.
According to the police thesis, Rubén V.C. “he would have carried out different procedures for the benefit of Aldama”, such as providing him with “a secure line of communication” or a “management in B” carried out on February 22, 2022, “the date on which he would have sent cash to Koldo” .
