The general director of Coordination and Studies of the Secretary of State for Security, José Antonio Rodríguez González, explained Monday to the judge of the National Court in charge of investigating the Koldo case that he had received contacts from the company linked to the alleged plot on the part of the office of Minister José Luis Ábalos and that his role was limited to transmitting it to another former Interior official, Daniel Belmar. He denied having received or given any indication regarding a contract with this company.
This is what several legal sources told Europa Press, who point out that the head of the Interior limited himself to confirming what Belmar has already declared – already retired and who then occupied the General Sub-Directorate planning and management of infrastructure and resources for security. –. Likewise, he recalled that this Management Solutions telephone number came to him during a meeting of the Coordination and Emergency Center (CECOR) and that he knew then that it was the company with which Puertos del Estado and Adif, two public companies dependent on the Ministry of Transport.
Belmar, who was responsible for coordinating the acquisition of the masks, affirmed in his testimony that it was Rodríguez González who told him about Management Solutions and who facilitated the contact of Íñigo Rotaeche, the executive director of this company.
The auditors ratify the report
This Monday, the two inspectors from the Ministry of Transport, Sara Anguita and Ana Balbás, who participated in the audit report carried out by the Ministry of Transport now headed by Óscar Puente and which speaks of “irregularities” in purchase contracts , also declared masks during the pandemic and highlights the management of the team of former Minister Ábalos.
The sources consulted commented that both limited themselves to confirming their work and stressed that they worked on the basis of official and not personal emails of the people who were the subject of their report. Adif’s former chief of staff Michaux Miranda, investigated in the affair, severely criticized this report in his press release, calling it “absurd” and containing “decontextualized or directly distorted” remarks.
