The judge already investigates an alleged corrupt system in transport in the Abalos stage

The magistrate Leopold Puente He recently took a step forward by expanding the investigation – which initially adhered to the possible irregularities in the award of health material contracts during the COVID – to the placement of the politician of the politician, Jésica Rodríguezin the two public companies Ineco and Tragsa (dependent on the Ministries of Transportation and Interior) at the request of Ábalos and their advisor, Koldo García.

On Wednesday, in addition to urge the National Court to the imputation of the ORIMINATE of ADIF Isabel Pardo de Vera For the aforementioned hiring of Jésica García in Ineco, where he never stepped on his office as he declared, the judge opened a new line of investigation that also goes back A year before Pandemia contracts.

Bridge already investigates if there was a corruption system established in 2019 and that it would have prolonged for more than a year around the Award of road expansion works In the Ministry of Transport while José Luis Ábalos was in charge of it.

The magistrate urged the Civil Guard to investigate the award of the works “and/or rectified” awarded by the General Directorate of Roads in them, as the businessman and commissioner also investigated Victor of Aldamathere was that corrupt system that he described, according to which the companies he represented were awarded, they gave him between 1 and 1.5 percent of the total amount of the contract and, of that commission, he paid his advisor to his advisor, Koldo García.

Koldo García’s lyrics

In February, Aldama gave the instructor a document with a List of tenders of highway expansion with stubborn fluorescent and scoring scoring that they assured were made by Koldo García. Also an image in which you see the Ábalos advisor reflected on the mobile screen while looking at another document with a similar list. With both documents he tried to prove his statements in the judicial headquarters.

Previously, in December – for both a month after Judge Puente opened cause against Ábalos for alleged corruption – the businessman held in his statement as charged in the Supreme Court that these payments were not only for awarded awarded, but also that delivered 10,000 euros Between October 2019 “or possibly months before,” he said, Koldo García to make sure that the companies they represented would receive a favor treatment in the future. He would have left a part of the up to four million euros Collected between 2019 and 2021 to companies, as he said, and another would have given it to the Ábalos and Koldo García.

The investigating judge ordered a calligraphic test To check if the schedules of the document with the list of awards were really from the minister’s ex -analysis. Once he found that his letter was, Leopoldo Puente has taken another step in the investigation and has asked the Civil Guard different proceedings to clear if there was that endemic corrupt system described by Víctor de Aldama.

«In the light of the result of a calligraphic expert report prepared in this special cause by the designated expert, Mrs. María Eugenia Pérez Mateyhighlighting the coincidence between the writing body formed by the investigated Don Koldo García Izaguirre and the documents, with part of its handwritten content, provided by the defense of the Mr. of Aldama Delgadowhich constituted in this expertise the dubited writing, it is appropriate to order the Central Operating Unitwith a remission to the same of the testimony of these documents, which proceeds to investigate the award of the works and/or rectified that appear highlighted with a fluorescent line in those, identifying the company that finally it would be awarded of each of the aforementioned works and control the adjudication procedure ”, it could be read in its car last Wednesday.

The statement that Víctor de Aldama provided on November 21 at the Supreme Court, in which it was ratified in statements that had already made at the National Court, acquires more sense as the bridge magistrate is practicing proceedings in the investigation.

It all started in Mexico

During this appearance, Aldama argued that, with respect to the mask business, he took a commission of five and a half million euros because Management solutionsof his partner Juan Carlos Cueto, was the winner of the transport contract while Ábalos received two million euros and Koldo García, 500,000 euros. Affirmations that the last two rule out. But, in addition to this contract, the magistrate asked him about something he already told at the National Court, the 10,000 euros per month that allegedly paid Koldo García for almost two years, between October 2019 and July 2021, time of his cessation, as well as that of Ábalos. “What were these monthly payments to Mr. Garcia if there had been no contract yet, nor was it even predictable?” Asked Puente.

«Well, we have focused on the subject of the masks, but obviously the relationship with Mr. Ábalos and with Mr. Garcia was previous. After my trip to Mexico, in which we return with a success, let’s say important, there is a confidence and other businesses are seen such as the issue of construction companies in the fields of the Ministry of Transportation: that is, roads, adif, conservation and maintenance, ”he launched.

And when retending on what those 10,000 euros were per month, he said: “Of possible future awards of the subject of the construction companies”. He said that “they (by the minister and his advisor) were already very clear how they were going to make those projections or awards.” «It is giving 10,000 euros per month to people who tell you that they will get public contracts. It is ridiculous when we are talking about millions of euros in public contracts. It was like a kind of good faith for me for a future benefit. When you start a society, it can go well or badly. It was my risk. I was risking a business business, ”he said. And it went further: “Man, I wasn’t asking for anyone, I was asking for the advisor to former transport minister”he pointed, ensuring that he made money deliveries from the aforementioned bite sometimes only Koldo García and others also to the minister himself “in his office.”

Now, the judge has commissioned the UCO to “control” the route of the awards indicated by Aldama in the list that he delivered with more than 50 references. Among the companies that were there were Levantine and Muriasfor which as the former president of Adif declared both Ábalos and Koldo García to see if the payments for their work were in order.

As for the trip to Mexico with which according to the businessman “everything began”, he refers to a Official visit of members of the Ministry of Transportation to the Oaxaca region in February 2019 that organized months before Aldama for the relations it had in that country and of which there is documentary registration. In a video, the commissioner is seen in meetings with the minister. In the delegation there was also the then president of Ineco, Carmen Libreroaccording to the official agenda.

On that visit, according to the UCO in one of its reports of the Koldo case of the National Court – which gave rise to the opening of the case against Ábalos in the Supreme Court – Aldama exercised as a Pseudo Official Representative of Spain. He also declared in judicial headquarters that the then ambassador of Spain in Mexico, Juan López-Dórigait was bothered because it bridged him. An extreme that this newspaper tried to clarify with the aforementioned, without a response.

According to Aldama, that trip was the test of fire after which developed an “economic relationship”as he said in the Supreme Court, with Ábalos and his advisor, whom he defined as his “open line” in the Government of Pedro Sánchez to obtain the contracts so desired by the companies he represented.

According to Aldama, also for the “success” of the organization of that trip, which related to the contract so that several Spanish companies participate in the construction of a section of the Macro Work of the Green Mayan Trainthe president of the Government wanted to meet him in the presentation of the PSOE candidate for the Mayor’s Office of Madrid, Pepu Hernándezon February 3, 2019. A moment of which a inn with Sánchez contributed, who announced a complaint for insults against him for this matter.