The Central Operational Unit (UCO) of the Civil Guard investigates a meeting between Koldo García and the current president of Adif, Ángel Contreras Marín. A report from the armed institute, recently incorporated into the summary of the National Court that maintains the former advisor of the former socialist minister José Luis Ábalos indicted, highlights that García had scheduled a meeting for last February 21 with the top manager of the public company. “Very good, Marquis. I am in Madrid. I know it will be difficult to see you. But if you can, tell me. Either lunch or dinner, or else 5 m [sic]. But, if it is not possible, tell me a day next week if you can, please,” the former socialist collaborator wrote to Contreras on February 16. “Today it is impossible for me, next week what day is better for you?”, replied the senior Adif official, who sent him to the following week: “I only have time on Wednesday 10.15-11.00. What do you think”. Koldo García responded with “perfect.” However, the meeting never came to fruition, since Koldo García was detained on February 20 and remained arrested until the 22nd, when the judge of the National Court Ismael Moreno, investigator of the case, released him.
In these investigations, the National Court is investigating the alleged network concocted to obtain contracts for the supply of masks and medical supplies to the Administration in exchange for the payment of illegal commissions in March 2020, at the worst of the coronavirus pandemic. Judge Moreno, the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office and the UCO suspect that Koldo García used the contacts he had established during his time as advisor to José Luis Ábalos, then Minister of Transportation, to obtain awards for the company Soluciones de Gestión, behind the which are supposedly the businessmen Juan Carlos Cueto and Víctor de Aldama, president of Zamora CF, also accused. Adif was one of the public companies that then awarded them a contract, valued at 12.5 million euros, now under suspicion.
The recent report from the Civil Guard considers the meeting that Koldo García and Ángel Contreras had closed “striking”. According to the UCO, last February, businessman Daniel Fernández, administrator of the company Obras Públicas y Regadíos, allegedly asked Ábalos’ former advisor to “exercise his influence to” be awarded an “alleged emergency contract” that was going to be put out to tender. due to “the slippage that occurred in the execution” of other works on the Monforte-Lugo railway network, which had been granted in 2021 to a UTE (Temporary Business Union), in which his company participated. “Ágel knows that he has taken 600,000 euros from us in that work and he must help us, but you know,” Daniel Fernández wrote to Koldo García without specifying which Ángel he was referring to.
The Civil Guard adds that Koldo García had scheduled an appointment on this issue on February 21 with Antonio Fernández, brother of Daniel Fernández and representative of Public Works and Irrigation. He had also met that day with Ángel Contreras, president of Adif. According to the armed institute’s report, the director of the public company had agreed to meet that day. “The importance of this meeting lies in the fact that Ángel Contreras is currently the president of Adif, and at the time of the events that give rise to these proceedings he was the general director of Conservation and Maintenance of Adif. On the other hand, this entity was the awarder of the public works contract that is the subject of Daniel Fernández’s messages,” he points out.
It is not the first time that Contreras’s name appears in the summary. Several reports from the Civil Guard highlight that, despite having abandoned his position as advisor to Ábalos, Koldo García continued to hold meetings “with personnel from the political sphere” of the Ministry of Transport, all of them at the La Chalana seafood restaurant in Madrid. Among the people he met with was the current director of Adif, although in these documents – where photos taken by the agents of the meetings appear – the UCO does not point out any irregularities to the director.
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