The former director of Globalia Javier Hidalgo appeared this Friday before the Senate commission of inquiry into the Koldo affair. However, he limited himself to reading a written statement in which he denied that his group had benefited from “favorable treatment” by the governmentand refused to answer the questions asked by the PP and Vox about his relationships with Begoña Gómez, with Koldo García and with the businessman Víctor de Aldama.
“I took a 16-hour flight and I came with my lawyer,” Hidalgo protested as soon as Vox senator Paloma Gómez began asking him the first question, “I will provide a statement explaining all the “If I am not allowed to speak, I will use my right not to testify,” he threatened.
The president of the commission informed him that he had been summoned to the commission, precisely to give explanations, then Javier Hidalgo began to read a brief statement in which he intended deny “hoaxes” which he claimed were directed against his business.
Hidalgo assured that he had only met President Pedro Sánchez once, and that was “in a meeting in which there were 25 other businessmen.”
He also clarified that the economic injection of 475 million euros that Air Europa received from the Société Nationale de Participations Industrielles (SEPI) during the pandemic “It wasn’t a bailout, it was a loanwith the most unfavorable conditions in Europe.
Among these conditions were, he detailed, the repurchase of the company by SEPI, if the loan was not returned, and “the pledge of the contract with Iberia, worth 1 billion euros” .
“Tell me where the privileged treatment is, I don’t understand“, he insisted.
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