The Hazte Oír association and the Iustitia Europa political party, two of the popular accusations of Koldo affairasked Judge Ismael Moreno to investigate this case the journey of Delcy Rodríguezvice-president of Venezuela, in Spain in January 2020.
This case is reported in the latest report from the Central Operational Unit (UCO) of the Civil Guard incorporated in the summary of the case. Although this point has already been addressed by a court in Madrid, the aforementioned police document reveals previously unknown details, as What’s new sent by the minister of the time Jose Luis Abalos to the president of the government, Pedro Sanchezin which he informs him of the visit of the Chavista leader, who is prohibited from setting foot in or flying over the European Union.
Sánchez, after his Ábalos confessed that Rodríguez intended to meet the minister “discreetly,” responded with a brief “Good.”
In fact, Iustitia Europa and Hazte Oír requested that Ábalos be called as a witness in the trial. Koldo affair. This is the second time that a popular accusation has asked for it. Moreno has already denied it on one occasion.
As published by EL ESPAÑOL, the anti-corruption prosecutor’s office plans to ask the magistrate Koldo affair which asks the Supreme Court to indict Ábalos, since, since he was acquitted, the High Court is the only one that can investigate him.
However, last Friday the former minister himself sent a letter to Judge Moreno proposing to voluntarily appear as a witness, despite the fact that the aforementioned UCO report contains evidence against him and recommends investigating him. The magistrate has in fact already taken the first step in this direction.
Likewise, Hazte Oír and Iustitia Europa ask the judge to request the indictment of Francine Armengol in this case. This socialist leader is currently president of the Congress of Deputies, which makes her the third authority of the State. Now the UCO report includes their WhatsApp in 2020 with Koldo Garcíathe advisor of Ábalos who gives his name to the affair.
In the Koldo case, the National Court is investigating an alleged corruption system intended to collect illegal commissions through several public contracts, signed at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, and awarded to the company SL Management SolutionsLet us consider the epicenter of this network. This company received more than 30 million euros for the supply of masks to the Ministry of Transport.
In 2020, Armengol was president of the Balearic Islands. Although having denied to the parliamentary seat any contact with Koldo for the hiring of any company, the said WhatsApp show that, when the advisor recommended two companies linked to this plot, the socialist leader gave her the telephone number of her Minister of Health, Patricia Gomez Picard.
In fact, Iustitia Europa and Hazte Oír are also asking to cite him as under investigation. Soluciones de Gestión SL has also supplied masks to the governments of the Canary Islands and the Balearic Islands. However, the masks received by the latter, worth 3.7 million euros, were stored without being used because they did not meet expectations.
Likewise, the two popular accusations demand the opening of a separate room to investigate the rescue granted by the government of Pedro Sánchez to the airline. Air Europethe one in charge of transporting masks purchased by the Ministry of Transport.
La compañía, propiedad del holding Globalia, recibió en noviembre de 2020 un total de 475 millones de euros públicos para hacer frente a la Covid-19. Quien fuera por entonces su CEO, Javier Hidalgo, ha declarado como testigo en el caso Koldo. De hecho, tanto Iustitia Europa y Hazte Oír, como otra de las acusaciones populares, la asociación Liberum, han solicitado al juez Moreno que deduzca testimonio contra él como primer paso para su imputación, al detectar ciertas contradicciones en su relato, lo que podría constituir un posible delito de falso testimonio.
“Resulta evidente, en el informe de la UCO, que el señor Hidalgo mensajeó, llamó y habló, y tuvo reuniones y comunicaciones, e incluso encuentros en el Ministerio de Transportes, con personas que en su declaración [ante el juez, como testigo]openly denied”, affirm the two accusations in their joint writing, to which EL ESPAÑOL had access.
Furthermore, in said document they request the testimony of Nadia Calviñoformer Minister of Economic Affairs.
For what reason? The latest UCO report reveals that the alleged commissioner/middleman/director of the plot, Victor de Aldamawith Javier Hidalgo, even had talks with Calviño and with Bartolomé Lora Torovice-president of the State Company of Industrial Participations (SEPI), to promote the rescue of Air Europa, of which Aldama was an advisor in 2020.
In fact, both charges also require Lora Toro’s testimony. The Civil Guard agents reported in their report sent to the judge that “the conversations found in the electronic devices seized (from the commission agent) allow us to appreciate in an indicative manner how Aldama benefited from his relationship with Koldo [García] And [José Luis] Abalos to influence the final award of the Air Europa rescue”.
Judge Juan Carlos Peinado, president of the Court of Instruction number 41 of Madrid, investigated a complaint that recounted the alleged participation of Begoña Gomezwife of Pedro Sánchez, in favor of Globalia and Air Europa. Recently, the Provincial Court of Madrid, although it approved the investigation carried out by Peinado against Gómez, excluded from this case matters related to Air Europa. At least, until new criminal signs appear.
The UCO also sent a report to Judge Peinado that deflates the accusations against Gómez for his ties to Globalia and limits his relationship with Hidalgo to a few meetings at tourist events. Now, in its latest report on the Koldo affairthe Civil Guard recommends “a more exhaustive study” of the Air Europa rescue, because there are “many actors whose role should be supported by a more in-depth investigation into the events”.
According to Hazte Oír and Iustitia Europa, Víctor de Aldama “paid Koldo to intercede with Ábalos, who, in turn, made decisions that benefited the interests” of the commissioner himself.
As EL ESPAÑOL exclusively revealed, Víctor de Aldama revealed to a person he trusts completely, a few hours after meeting Delcy Rodríguez at Madrid Barajas airport, that the vice-president of Venezuela had left suitcases “full of money” in Spain and that “Pedro Sánchez knew it”. “.
EL ESPAÑOL has the testimony of this person, who acted as Aldama’s confidant and to whom he recounted his meeting with the Chavista leader in the early hours of January 20, 2020. The commissioner, according to the summary of the Koldo affairwent to Barajas to receive her.
It is for this reason that Hazte Oír and Iustitia Europa ask Judge Moreno to clarify the degree of responsibility of each of the people involved in Delcy’s trip to Spain and the “exact circumstances of the transit and landing.”
The demands made by these two charges are in addition to those requested last Friday by both. Among them, the summons as a witness of the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez.
“He will have to explain why his name appears in a report detailing key movements linked to the rescue of Air Europa”, specify the two accusations.
