THE number two of Chavismo landed in the capital on January 20, 2020, although he is prohibited from flying over or setting foot in Spain due to EU sanctions against the regime of Nicolas Maduro.
EL ESPAÑOL had access to a WhatsApp conversation between García and the current Secretary of State for Security, Rafael Perez. The messages are dated January 19, 2020, shortly after noon. That is to say the day before Delcy arrived at Barajas airport. THE right hand of the minister Fernando Grande Marlaska He had accepted this position a few hours earlier.
“I have already spoken with our director of the coordination and studies office to put it on prevention until the communication from Foreign Affairs arrives,” said Rafael Pérez. “Send me, in any case, the data you have here,” he asked the then Ábalos advisor.
Koldo García immediately sent him the address of the chalet, located on Oquendo Street in Madrid and which has a swimming pool. “You will have to enter through the authorities. Arrival around 11 p.m.“, he clarified. “The last thing is where he’s going to stay,” García clarified after sharing several photos with Pérez. “It’s a cottage. Everyone is already informed,” warned the man who was then advisor and confidant of Ábalos.
The discussions between Koldo and Rafael Pérez.
Immediately afterwards, he comments that this part of the city is “a safe zone”, since important bankers and executives of large companies live there.
Precisely, the Minister of Transport at the time, accompanied by his advisor, went to Barajas to receive the Chavista leader. Ultimately, Rodríguez did not stay in Spain, as his visit transcended him.
The aforementioned discussions were found by the Central Operational Unit (UCO) of the Civil Guard on the telephone number of Koldo García. And they have already been sent to the investigating judge Koldo affairIsmael Moreno, president of the Central Investigating Court number 2 of the National Court.
The director of coordination and interior studies that Pérez referred to is José Antonio Rodriguezformer commissioner of the highest trust in Marlaska and who currently holds this position. When he was an active police officer he was known as Lenin in the police field. In fact, in discussions he is cited under the name “José Antonio”.
The former commissioner testified before Judge Moreno on October 14. During his interrogation, he named Koldo García as the person who, in 2020, arranged for Interior to purchase masks from Soluciones de Gestión SL.
This company, considered the epicenter of the alleged corruption plot, had already been selected by Transportes —when Ábalos headed this ministry— for the supply of millions of masks against Covid-19.
Before the judge, Lenin He insisted that he did not remember who put him in contact with Koldo García. However, EL ESPAÑOL revealed that the one who did it was precisely Rafael Pérez.
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