The Interior Ministry was unable to locate Javier Hidalgo. The Popular Party denounces that the former CEO of Globalia, who was to appear this Thursday before the commission of inquiry into the Koldo affair in the Senate, will not appear in the Upper House to account for his relationship with the alleged criminal conspiracy , since the ministry of Fernando Grande Marlaska He was unable to send you the summons for the said appearance.
The Popular Party has again requested the appearance of the former CEO of Globalia in the Senate and demands that the government collaborate in locating Hidalgo. Specifically they designate three ministries to shed light on the fate of the businessman. This is: that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in the event that Hidalgo is outside Spain, calls on the service of its embassy to clarify where he is. Also at the Ministry of Finance, because “he is a taxpayer and the tax authorities must know his tax address”, as PP sources point out. Likewise, they demand the collaboration of the Ministry of Industry and Tourism, while “Hidalgo is one of the main businessmen in the tourism sector.”
Popular Party sources accuse the government of “hinder” the commission promoted by the popular, who enjoy an absolute majority in the Senate, ensuring that this is not the first time that the Interior is unable to locate a person presenting themselves to send the summons. This has already happened, say these same sources, with the former Deputy Director General of Economy and Asset Management in 2020, José Manuel Fraile Azpeitia, whose appearance was suspended, and with Koldo García himself. same, protagonist of the plot whose fate has not been clarified by the Interior.
The most popular discredit these incidents from the Interior and recall that Marlaska assured during his own appearance before the commission of the Upper House that “he was ready to collaborate with the commission to help in whatever was necessary.” “Sánchez he is very scared “that the whole truth is known about the corruption conspiracy that surrounds it,” said the spokesperson for the Popular Party in the Senate, Alicia García.
Javier Hidalgo was summoned before the commission of inquiry into the Koldo affair in the Senate a few days after the publication in the media of the latest report from the Central Operational Unit (UCO) of the Civil Guard on economic crime in the case Koldo, who highlighted the relationship between the conspiracy’s commissioner, Víctor de Aldama, and the former Minister of Transport José Luis Ábalos, as key to promoting the rescue of AirEuropa airline, of which Hidalgo was CEO, through the State Company of Industrial Participations (SEPI).
“The conversations found in the intercepted electronic devices allow us to see indicatively how Aldama used his relationship with Koldo-Ábalos to include him in the final granting of the ransom to Air Europa,” reads the consulted report by ABC.
