The popular accusation exercised by Iustitia Europa in the Koldo case asked the National Court to indict the former Minister of Transport and member of the Joint Group, Jose Luis Abalosafter having incorporated into the file the internal audit that the current head of Transport, Oscar Bridgecommissioned this corruption case that investigates the purchase of health products, such as masks, during the pandemic. Iustitia Europa sent a letter to the investigating judge of the case, Ismael Moreno, assuring that there are indications “rational and sufficient” for the indictment of Ábalos for the alleged crimes of embezzlement, criminal organization, embezzlement of public funds, money laundering and administrative fraud.
“Not another second can pass without Ábalos being charged in the case before the National Court, because the audit report of the Ministry of Transport highlighted dozens of evidence that “the decisions and knowledge” They were at the ministerial level, the minister’s office.“authorized by the minister, with the knowledge of the minister, approved by the minister, that these movements were made at the highest level of the minister and that ultimately the decisions were taken at the level of the minister,” Iustitia Europa said in a statement on Monday.
The entity claims that the internal audit of Transport points directly to José Luis Ábalos and collects evidence of how emergency regulations were exploited during the pandemic to circumvent administrative law with objectively incorrect resolutions. contrary to the law.
This accusation focuses on the fact that in the first purchase from Soluciones de Gestión, the company at the center of the plot, the amount was doubled, going from four to eight million masks “using the emergency right of art.” 120 of Law 9/2017 of November 8 on public sector contracts, by which Directives of the European Parliament and of the Council 2014/23 / EU and 2014/24 / EU of 26 are transposed into the Spanish legal system. February 2014.
“Abalos abused his position”
Iustitia Europa emphasizes that once the Management Solutions award is granted, “she prostituted herselfby fraud consisting of entrusting the sole contractor, arbitrarily chosen, with the task of obtaining the conditions he proposes. Furthermore, he emphasizes that the destination of millions of masks and, consequently, of millions of euros of public money is unknown, “since there is no register, delivery note or proof of delivery of these”.
“Based on this evidence, there are indications that Mr. Ábalos, who was charged and allegedly abuse the functions of one’s position and acting unfairly on the assets managed, disposed of them without carrying out any objective evaluation when awarding the contracts, inappropriately, to Soluciones de Gestión, with clear harm to the public treasury of all Spaniards,” the letter states.
The alleged bribery plot allegedly paid commissions to obtain rewards for the sale of masks. Receives its name from Koldo Garciawho was an assistant to Minister Ábalos at the time. The anti-corruption prosecutor’s office attributes to the persons under investigation alleged crimes of criminal organization, money laundering, corruption, crimes against the public treasury and influence peddling.
