The Minister of the Presidency, Justice and Relations with the Cortes, Félix Bolaños, has filed a civil lawsuit against the businessman Víctor de Aldama for violation of his right to honor. The legal action comes after Aldama stated in media and social networks that the minister would have contacted him to bribe him and “buy his silence”, accusations that Bolaños flatly rejects and describes as false.
In the document presented before justice in Madrid, the minister maintains that said statements lack any evidentiary support and respond to an attempt to link him with plots in which he assures he has no relation. Furthermore, he emphasizes that he has never maintained any contact with Aldama nor with his environment, insisting that the businessman's statements seriously damage his public and institutional reputation.
The lawsuit arrives in a context marked by judicial investigations related to the so-called Koldo case, in which Aldama has played a relevant role and in which political figures such as the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, have also been mentioned. However, Bolaños underlines that in the recent statements of the businessman in court, he is not directly pointed out, which, in his opinion, reinforces the lack of consistency of the accusations previously made in the media.
As part of the claim, the minister requests that Aldama immediately cease the dissemination of these statements, as well as their public rectification, especially on the social network X. Likewise, claims compensation of 70,000 euros for the damages caused, in addition to the publication of the judicial ruling, in the event that it is favorable to him, as a measure of reparation of his honor.
