Torres's team defends his innocence and denounces a "smear campaign" in the Koldo case

Ángel Víctor Torres's team has insisted that the minister has not committed any crime, as the UCO report on the Koldo case, released this Monday, allegedly demonstrates, and has condemned the "slanders" against him and his "defamation." Sources from Torres's team point out that, after more than a year in which the UCO of the Civil Guard has analyzed the different conversations of the Minister of Territorial Policy and Democratic Memory since 2020, "the conclusion is that there is nothing criminal in them, nor will there be." **"No women sexually exploited, no apartments, no kickbacks,** no commissions, no meetings with drug traffickers," they add. The same sources maintain that with respect to the contracts for the acquisition of masks, **"it is proven that it was done correctly,** as has been endorsed by the intervention of the Canary Islands community, the Audit Office, and the Court of Auditors." The recent UCO report indicates that Koldo García managed to get the then president of the Canary Islands and now minister, Ángel Víctor Torres, to directly take charge of claiming outstanding payments from his government to a company of Víctor de Aldama for contracts of sanitary material in the middle of the pandemic. The PP has called for Torres's resignation because of this, but the minister's team has stressed that the judge in the Koldo case "has not considered any of Aldama's false accusations credible" and believes that all this demonstrates "the falsity of the serious accusations," the **"lies of the right and the far right,"** and "the biased defamations in media and pseudo-media outlets." The same sources criticize the attempt to "destroy" the image of a person and his family "without the slightest proof and with absolute vileness," and have demanded, on behalf of Torres, public apologies "from those who have given credence to and have been a loudspeaker for all these slanders."