The contract with a large infrastructure company that Koldo García took to the National Court to assert that his wife’s consultant, Patricia Úriz, does not constitute a cover for illicit commissions resulting from the masks purchased from Management Solutions is being reviewed. ‘execution. Both the investigating judge Ismael Moreno and the anti-corruption prosecutor’s office consider that the document “does not allow us to confirm” whether they actually carried out a real commercial activity and therefore chose to send the Civil Guard to verify the work of construction. company, what services they provided and why.
As revealed by ABC, Koldo claimed before the National Court that he started working at the consultancy firm Erikapat, established by his wife in 2022, in November last year. That month, the company signed a consultancy contract with the Grupo de Empresas Azvi, a conglomerate of Andalusian origin specializing in railway infrastructure and traditional contractor of the Ministry of Transport which has a turnover of 900 million ‘euros and has more than 5,000 employees.
The conditions, 6,000 euros per month with a success bonus of 0.75 percent of the total amount of each project obtained, up to a maximum of 350,000 euros per operation. In exchange, Erikapat, whose police reports do not mention any employees, was to carry out “a market analysis and a search for potential customers.” It was not enough to establish lists of objectives, “effective intermediation” would have to take place. It should be remembered that neither Patricia Úriz nor Koldo García refers to any consulting experience in their professional life file.
“The documentation provided (consulting contract signed by Ms. Patricia Uriz Iriarte on behalf of Erikapat Consultoría Internacional, SL with the company Grupo de Empresas Azvi, SL) does not allow us to confirm the reality of the statements made, i.e. to say that she is continues to ignore what is, or was, the reality of this company’s activityas well as the nature of the services that Koldo García Izaguirre, investigated, could provide him”, indicates the anti-corruption report to which ABC had access,
She states that “the only thing that appears in the procedure concerning the said company are the reports established by the police unit” and what she emphasizes is that “it is part of the patrimonial environment of the couple ” and that she is the administrator. of the company, which is named after the daughter they have in common. He therefore proposed to the judge that the Civil Guard check with Azvi whether Koldo García and Erikapat carried out work for them and were paid for it.
Negotiations with the company and police report
This is what the investigating judge affirms who, in a judgment to which this newspaper had access, instructs the Civil Guard “to take the necessary steps with the Azvi SL group of companies (Manuel Contreras Caro) to verify whether Koldo Garcia Izaguirre as well as the entity “Erikapat Consultoría Internacional SL” have provided them with any type of service and, if applicable, the nature of the service and the amounts that have been paid for them, on which the appropriate report will be provided.
The contract, in any case, was terminated by Azvi last February, as the company explained to ABC, when the Delorme company broke up and the arrest of Koldo García and his wife as well as several men business, the construction company understood that the termination clause had been violated. Compliance with the agreement which explicitly vetoes practices such as those investigated by the National Court, and more particularly, influence peddling and money laundering.
