The Senate still cannot locate the former CEO of Globalia Javier Hidalgo, already summoned twice to appear before the ongoing commission of inquiry in the Upper House on Koldo affair and its derivatives. It is for this reason that its president, the popular senator Eloy Suárez, decided to summon him again for November 29. And this time, for the third time, by a “penal edict”.
In other words, your summons will be published in the Official State Gazette (BOE), a means by which the businessman “it is considered notified” and if he did not appear at the commission, he would commit an offense of disobedience “provided for in article 502 of the Penal Code”, say PP sources.
It was on October 10 that the Senate commission of inquiry approved Hidalgo’s summons for Thursday, November 7, a summons which could not be delivered. And he was summoned again for the 22nd of this month.
Then, the PP, majority in the Upper House, accused the Ministry of the Interior of being “incapable” of sending the summons to the businessman and submitted a document to the Senate demanding that Pedro’s government Sánchez collaborates to find his trace. . Concretely, in addition to the department of Fernando Grande-Marlaska, he addressed the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Industry and Tourism in case Hidalgo had escaped from Spain.
Now, “due to the lack of collaboration of the Government”, affirms the PP, they summon Hidalgo again for next Friday, November 29, by decree, the aforementioned notification being published in the BOE. “This is the first time that this has happened in a democracy,” underline the same sources, who warn that if on this occasion the businessman did not appear at the meeting “he would commit an offense provided for in the Article 502 of the Penal Code.
This article establishes that “those who, legally required and warned, do not appear before a commission of inquiry of the Cortes Generales or of a Legislative Assembly of the Autonomous Community, will be punished as prisoners of the crime of disobedience“.
The PP also recalls that the same article provides that “anyone who is summoned before a parliamentary commission of inquiry and does not prove truthful in their testimony will be punished with a prison sentence of six months to one year or fine of twelve to twenty years.” four months.”
As this newspaper reported on November 7, sources close to Hidalgo assured ABC that he was “reachable by telephone” and willing to report when notified. They then explained that for professional reasons the businessman travels around the world and also recalled that already attended in person at the National Court to testify in the Koldo affair last September.
The most popular associate Javier Hidalgo, shareholder of Globalia, with Begoña Gómez, wife of the president of the government, in the rescue of the Air Europa company during the pandemic.
In this regard, the summary of the Koldo affair, the alleged illegal commission scheme in public procurement purchase of masks during the pandemic, revealed that the relationship of the commission agent Víctor de Aldama with the former Minister of Transport José Luis Ábalos and his advisor Koldo García was decisive for the government to grant 475 million public funds to the company aerial. This is what the Central Operational Unit (UCO) of the Civil Guard concluded following the conversations found on the electronic devices of the people investigated.
