The Provincial Prosecutor’s Office of Madrid has spoken out against reopening the case regarding the stay of the Venezuelan vice president Delcy Rodríguez at the Madrid Barajas airport in January 2020, as Vox requested, understanding that the signs that appear about possible criminal acts in the investigation of the ‘Koldo case’, that is being followed in the National Court, must be studied in that case.
“The allegedly criminal actions carried out by (Koldo) García Izaguirre – former advisor to former Minister José Luis Ábalos – and (Víctor) de Aldama – alleged organizer of the ‘Koldo plot’ – to which the request for reopening, are being investigated within the proceedings of the Central Court of Instruction number 2 of the AN, and it is in this procedure where the scope of said actions, the people who participated or benefited from them, as well as its criminal significance, but do not justify the reopening of this case, Therefore, the request made by Vox must be rejected,” he explains.
In this report, to which Europa Press has had access, the Public Ministry also explains that it must be taken into account that the object of the case “It is none other than the presence of Delcy Rodríguez in Spanish territory in the early morning of January 20, 2020 and its criminal significance”.
Delcy in Barajas
And he points out that from that perspective “the facts referred to in the letter requesting reopening do not affect on the legality or illegality of their presence in Spain (…) nor about the knowledge or authorization that may have preceded his stay at the Madrid airport.”
“That is to say, they do not make criminally relevant facts that the Supreme Court already understood had profiles outside of criminal law, since they represented the violation of an obligation of a political nature, and in that area the corresponding responsibility had to be resolved,” explains.
It should be remembered that it was last October 16 when Vox requested the reopening based on new evidence that would have appeared in the report of the Central Operational Unit (UCO) of the Civil Guard that dealt with the alleged relevant role of former minister José Luis Ábalos in the ‘Koldo case’.
But the Public Ministry emphasizes, expressly citing the Supreme Court’s decision on the ‘Delcy case’, that the considerations reached by that court “are applicable” to this case, since “it is evident that a fact cannot be at the same time typical in one jurisdiction and atypical in another”.
New facts in ‘Koldo’
On the other hand, the Prosecutor’s Office explains regarding these alleged new facts that Vox developed in its writing that they “do not affect the legality or illegality of the presence in Spain of the Venezuelan vice president or on the knowledge or authorization that could have preceded your stay at the Madrid airport”.
Remember that Santiago Abascal’s party cited “knowledge and intervention by Koldo García, De Aldama and former minister Ábalos in these events.” And he points out that those from Vox added that the President of the Government himself, Pedro Sánchez, would also have knowledge of the arrival of the Venezuelan vice president, who, according to the complainants, “would have expressly authorized the visit of Delcy Rodríguez.
The Prosecutor’s Office adds that, after this statement, the political party also mentioned the linking De Aldama with Globalia and his work in favor of the interests of that company with Venezuela; his relationships with high-level Venezuelan personalities; his intervention in a gold purchase operation for the Bancasa SA entity; and the personal interest that De Aldama would have in Delcy’s presence in Spain.
But the Prosecutor’s Office insists that all these facts still have no bearing on the possible illegality of the presence of Delcy Rodríguez at the airport.
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