THE Anti-corruption prosecution sent a report to the judge Koldo affair in which he maintains that the magistrate asks the Supreme Court to indict the former minister Jose Luis Abalos.
Since he is a member of Congress and therefore has no capacity, only the High Court can summon him to testify in an investigation. To do this, Judge Ismael Moreno should send what is called reasoned presentationa document in which the evidence against a defendant is explained and justifies why he or she should be charged.
Anti-corruption sources confirm to EL ESPAÑOL that the public prosecutor made this decision after the Central Operational Unit (UCO) of the Civil Guard sent his latest report to the judge, which indeed contains evidence against the former Minister of Transport.
Thus, the crimes that the public prosecutor attributes to the former minister are those of corruption, influence peddling and criminal organization.
In the call Koldo affair we are investigating a plot by public employees and businessmen allegedly dedicated to collect illegal commissions through several contracts, awarded, at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, by the central government and by the executives of the Canary and Balearic Islands to certain companies. One of the people investigated is Koldo Garciaformer advisor to the former head of Transport.
Concretely, among other things, the UCO file indicates that Ábalos would have received compensation in exchange for his support of Koldo’s plot. In fact, the Civil Guard goes so far as to describe the relationship between the two as “binomial”, to the point that some members of the conspiracy have referred to the former minister as “the boss”.
Another of the leaders of this network is Victor de Aldamaconsidered as the agent/intermediary/purchaser thereof. The UCO underlines in its report that the plot infiltrated “the spheres of action of the public and private sectors, resort to corruption and influence peddling to facilitate their criminal activities and obtain the economic advantages inherent to them.
“The facts reflected in this report not only show the influence of Aldama on MITMA [Ministerio de Transportes, Movilidad y Agenda Urbana] through alleged corrupt practices, but also his attempt to influence other decision-making bodies, thanks to the use of the Koldo-Ábalos pair“said the Civil Guard verbatim.
Likewise, an Aldama partner paid 82,298 euros for rent in JessicaSO girlfriend of José Luis Ábalos. The UCO details in its report that the young woman took advantage of this property between 2019 and 2022.
Businessman Víctor de Aldama, in his speech before the Balearic Parliament commission on the “Koldo case”.
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Jesica, a dentistry graduate and tenant of accommodation in Plaza de España in Madrid, was also hired in a public company reporting to the Ministry of Transport. The Civil Guard suspects that the person who paid their rent was an alleged front man.
The report also includes a 2020 conversation between then-Development Minister José Luis Ábalos with Pedro Sanchez. In this document, the first informed the President of the Government that the Vice President of Venezuela, Delcy Rodríguez, intended to travel to Spain and see Ábalos “discreetly”.
In 2020, the Ministry of Transport, while Ábalos headed it and Koldo García was his main advisor, awarded two contracts, handpicked, due to the health emergency situation, to the company. SL Management Solutionsconsidered the epicenter of the plot.
More precisely, the public entity State ports gave him 20 million euros for the supply of eight million masks. For his part, Adif awarded him a commission for the same purpose in the amount of 12.5 million euros.
However, Koldo García also maneuvered with other departments of the Administration to promote the hiring of local companies. For example, the latest UCO report includes a WhatsApp conversation in 2020 between the then advisor and who was president of the Balearic Islands on that date, Francine Armengol. García recommends two specific companies to carry out anti-Covid tests.
Armengol allows you to easily contact your Health Advisor. One of the companies García recommended would soon end up being hired by the island’s government. Today, the former president of the Balearic Islands is the third authority of the State, having become, in August 2023, president of the Congress of Deputies.
Abalos gives up
This same Wednesday, as indicated in a document to which EL ESPAÑOL had access, Ábalos’ defense stopped trying to have his client considered injured in this case. Koldo affair.
The former minister asked for it because he considers himself a “victim” of the leaks of the affair to the press which affect his personal and family life. On the other hand, he complained about the audit ordered by the current Minister of Transport, Oscar Puenteon the processing of the aforementioned Ports and Adif contracts. According to Ábalos, this measure was aimed at blaming him for the alleged irregularities in order to “avoid further responsibilities”.
Judge Moreno twice denied Ábalos injured party status. However, the former minister appealed this decision to the authority hierarchically superior to the instructor, the Criminal Chamber of the National Court.
But, in the aforementioned letter dated this Wednesday, his defense expresses “the withdrawal of the appeal”.
