Former Transport Minister José Luis Ábalos has tried to defend himself a day after Judge Ismael Moreno asked the Supreme Court to charge him with his “main role” in the ‘Koldo plot’. Ábalos maintains, in statements to El Mundo, that he can “defend himself against everything” and that he would be “the most shabby corrupt person” if he had allowed himself to be “bought” for “77,000 euros” when he was used to managing “13,000 million euros a year.” in the Ministry.
“Only in trains I bid for 10,000 million,” the former Secretary of Organization of the PSOE told El Mundo, who assures that “the judge’s presentation” is based on “conjectures” and “is limited to conveying the UCO’s arguments.” In whose latest report the Civil Guard tightened the siege on the former minister by placing him in “a relevant and responsible role” in the plot.
The judge attributes to Ábalos a crime of belonging to a criminal organization because he occupied a “main role” in the network created by businessman Víctor de Aldama to obtain business with public administrations, as well as a crime of bribery linked to the chalet in the Cadiz town of The Warden that the plot made available to her “as payment for her mediation in the awarding of contracts for the supply of medical supplies.” Another indication that would prove the bribery, according to the judge, is the payment of the rent for the apartment where his partner lived in the center of Madrid, from March 2019 to September 2021, for an amount of 88,101.43 euros and which he paid Aldama through people and companies that were under his control.
In statements to El Mundo, the former minister insists that the chalet “was not a gift” and that renting the apartment with his girlfriend in Madrid was not a bribe “because he had already left the relationship” at that time. “What head of a criminal organization is corrupted by 77,000 euros after driving?” Ábalos now launches in his defense.
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