The president of the Court of Instruction number 31 of Madrid, Marcelino Sexmero, has once again rejected the reopening of the investigation into the passage of the Vice-President of Venezuela, Delcy Rodríguez, through Madrid airport in January 2020, asked by Vox after revealing the In the Koldo affair, the president of the government knew that he intended to go to Spain to spend a few days having access to European territory prohibited due to sanctions against Maduro regime. In a resolution notified this Wednesday, the instructor, in accordance with the criteria of the prosecution, explains that the knowledge of these events by the Minister of Transport at the time, José Luis Ábalos, his advisor Koldo García and the commissionaire Víctor de Aldama, as well as that Pedro Sánchez, which Vox reports as “new facts” to request the reopening of the file, actually has no connection with the investigations, which focused on the question of whether Delcy Rodríguez had or not set foot on the national territory. He also recalls that the Supreme Court had already archived the part of Delcygate that concerned Ábalos when he met the Venezuelan that night at the airport, concluding that the violation of the European sanction which prevented the Venezuelan from entering into Spain, had occurred, that the investigating court concluded that, because he had remained in a transit zone, it was not a crime, because he had not no criminal relevance, but rather a political reproach. Related news He says the competition is standard Interior No The former director of Barajas airport was not aware of the arrival of Delcy Rodríguez He defends his actions in keeping the recordings, which he kept until ‘in 2022 and assures that he did not make copies With this premise, the judge reasons that “it is not possible to understand the relationship that may exist between the present case whose objective was to determine the action in the presence of a Venezuelan politician at the Barajas terminal and the rescue or subsidies to Globalia, an alleged purchase of gold for Bancasa and the intervention of MM. Koldo and Aldama without the alleged authorization of the president of this visit have criminal relevance, since that of the minister himself did not have it. According to him, “none of these facts is relevant in the present case, the aim of which has always been to determine whether the presence of Delcy Rodríguez on Spanish territory in the early hours of January 20, 2020 was of a criminal nature and these alleged facts don’t do it criminally “The indications given that the Supreme Court has already understood that there are profiles unrelated to criminal law are relevant.” Furthermore, let us recall that the acts that Koldo García and Víctor de Aldama could have committed are already the subject of an investigation before the National Court, “where it will be necessary to elucidate the scope of said events and their criminal relevance” and not before the courts from the Plaza. . of Castile.
