Lunches at the seafood restaurant La Chalana, dinners at the best restaurants like Ten Con Ten, Ramses or Salvaje and early morning at trendy nightclubs like Oh, My Club, Opium or Joy Eslava. This is the pace of life that Koldo García Izaguirre led in Madrid.
According to his credit card statements, to which EL ESPAÑOL had access, the former advisor to José Luis Ábalos He spent 3,000 euros in less than two hours enjoy the Madrid night. This represented a waste of more than 50% of his monthly payroll at the Ministry of Transport.
In less than two years, between June 2021 and March 2023, she achieved 34 payments with your Visa between this discotheque, Slavic joy and opiumat an average of one thousand euros per night.
For example, on October 20, 2021, you spent 1,123 euros at four in the morning in Oh, My Club. On November 17, another 1,100 euros at 2:31 a.m. in the same village hall.
One year later, on October 18, 2022, he pays 1,183 euros in Opiumlocated on José Abascal Street in the capital, during a party that lasted until at least five in the morning.
This year 2022, despite the fact that Koldo García only declared 43,000 euros in payroll or pension, the Navarrese socialist managed to pay with his Visa. more than 2,500 euros in clubs in three nights festivals organized between October 18 and November 10.
These expenses, according to research sources, corroborate the increase in unjustified assets by Koldo García Izaguirre based on the attributions to the company Soluciones de Gestión for the supply of masks.
These banking documents also reflect repeated cash receipts of 3,000 euros of unknown origin and significant withdrawals from ATMs, between 500 and 1,500 euros.
The Central Operational Unit of the Civil Guard highlighted in one of its reports that the former advisor of Ábalos carried out “cash operations exceeding” more than 250,000 euros between 2020 and 2022. In addition, he received more than 100,000 euros in transfers and obtained loans for mortgages that exceeded 340,000 euros.
Instead, The salaries or pensions received by Koldo García during these three years were 230,000 euros. Investigators say these assets and the lifestyle the former Ábalos advisor led could not be maintained on his salary alone, even if he earned 5,800 euros net per month.
Hotel in Estepona
A month before being dismissed from his position as advisor to the Minister of Transport, in the early hours of June 9 to 10, 2021, Koldo García spent 3,000 euros in the Oh, My Club room located on Rosario Pino street in Madrid and known for be frequented by famous people.
Ábalos’ right-hand man then made a payment with his card at 10:54 p.m. for an amount of 1,340 euros. Two hours later, Koldo García requested the dataphone again to debit another 1,650 euros from one of his bank accounts.
A week before José Luis Ábalos was dismissed as Minister of Transport by Pedro Sánchez, Koldo García made a payment of 1,477 euros in a hotel in Esteponaplus an additional 300 euros in an Airbnb.
And that’s it hotels and travel carried on his credit card also caught the attention of investigators. Thus, in November 2021, when he no longer had a job and therefore no more income from the Ministry of Transport, Koldo García paid 4,734 euros for plane tickets.
Added to this are 13 bank card payments made for the purchase of plane tickets and hotels between 1,500 and 4,734 euros. The sum of these expenses alone exceeded 40,000 euros.
In total, the payments made by Koldo García only with this credit card, he had other visas that he shared with his wife, were 145,000 euros.
Ábalos’ birthday
Bank documents in the possession of this newspaper also show that Koldo García paid 1,000 euros with your personal credit card, between restaurants and hotels, in the Celebrating the birthday of José Luis Ábalos in Colombia on December 9, 2022.
The former transport minister and his former advisor traveled to Bogotá together, although their working relationship ended in July 2021. Ábalos’ birthday dinner at the Salvaje restaurant in the Colombian capital amounted to 500 euros and was paid with Visa by Koldo García.
Oddly enough, payments made with Koldo García’s credit card are free for the La Chalana seafood restaurant, the place where he used to meet high-ranking Transport officials and businessmen.
The UCO indicated in one of its letters that the former advisor of Ábalos had paid the bills of this restaurant in cash with 500 euro notes.
