Former Undersecretary of Transportation Jesus Manuel Gomez ensures that What Koldo García said “was the word” of the minister at the time José Luis Abalos. He supported him this Monday by testifying as an investigator for the ‘Koldo Affair’Before the judge, Gómez also defended that he had only met Ábalos and that he did not know the commissioner. Victor de Aldama.
Completed last August by the current head of Transport, Óscar Puente, Gómez said that Ábalos was one of the four ministers delegated to rent masks in the first moments of the pandemic, alongside the heads of the Interior, Health and Defense. He also indicated that The minister told him to look for masksbut He did not specify who to hire them from..
As stated, he sent with Abalos and argued that the supply of masks contracted with the company involved in the conspiracy had increased from four to eight million euros due to the pandemic situation. He stressed that he only met the minister and with no one else and who does not know the intermediary Aldama. Furthermore, Gómez stated that “What Koldo said is the minister’s word”that he instructed his team to carry out a solvency study and asked Puertos del Estado and Adif to do the same.
Gómez’s statement comes after senior ministry officials told the Civil Guard that He was the one who gave the order to hire the company. of the plot, “Management Solutions.” The former Undersecretary of Transportation himself also admitted that the agents “had handed Koldo an envelope with documents for the former minister Ábalos” when he was no longer responsible for the department.
In turn, his Ábalos targeted his undersecretary before the Senate inquiry committee last May, when he argued that manage all acquisitions of material They were made by Jesús Manuel Gómez. Later, in August, the current head of the portfolio announced his Dismissal after internal audit on the purchase of masks.
