The businessman and former CEO of Globalia, Javier Hidalgo, whom the Popular Party accuses of being in location unknown For not having responded to the summons of the commission of inquiry into the Koldo affair in the Senate, he is “reachable by telephone” and willing to appear when he is informed.
This is what sources close to him assure ABC, who explain that Hidalgo, for professional reasons, travel around the world. They also recall that the businessman had already gone in person to the National Court to testify in the same mask plot last September.
The businessman, who is also linked to the wife of the President of the Government, Begoña Gómez, was summoned yesterday to the Upper House, at the request of the PP, to give explanations about his relations with the accused of the Koldo affair and its derivatives.
But, after several attempts and faced with the impossibility of personally sending him the summons, the Popular Party, the majority in the Senate, recorded a letter this Wednesday to demand that the Ministry of the Interior, Tourism, Finance and Foreign Affairs locates it.
Concretely, the people asked the department of Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska to use all “all your legal resources”while requesting collaboration from the portfolio of Minister Jordi Hereu, because Hidalgo “is one of the main businessmen in the tourism sector.”
They also addressed the ministry of María Jesús Montero, given that Hidalgo is “a taxpayer and the taxman must know his tax domicile.” Just as they want Minister José Manuel Albares to “use his embassy service to locate him”, in case the former CEO of Globalia is abroad, and appears.
It was last September that Hidalgo appeared in person at the National Court to testify before Judge Ismael Moreno, after the Criminal Chamber ordered him to do so when it understood that his statement was of interest in the context of the legal procedure. Koldo affairto delve deeper into the flights with masks that Air Europa chartered and the type of contract that his company had with the alleged broker of the conspiracy, Víctor de Aldama. Then, according to what this newspaper published, he denied having received commissions for the transfer of medical supplies and said nothing about his contacts with Begoña Gómez.
