Magistrate Ismael Moreno, who is investigating the ‘Koldo case’ procedure, has agreed to submit “a reasoned statement to the Supreme Court” to investigate the former Minister of Transportation and still a congressman, José Luis Ábalos, after the “founded and serious indications” of his “main role” in the plot, already considered a criminal organization. Moreno also proposes a “clear and concrete accusation” against Ábalos, since he considers that there are “a series of indications that show” his participation in the criminal acts of influence peddling and bribery, among others.
This decision comes after the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office alleged last Thursday that Ábalos was a key piece of the Koldo plot. “It is difficult to understand the operation carried out by Koldo García and Victor de Aldama without the participation of Ábalos, as stated in the UCO report,” says the Public Ministry, which proposed, like Judge Moreno, the accusation of the former minister before the Supreme Court, the body that has jurisdiction for this.
In the resolution to which this newspaper has had access, The magistrate attributes to Ábalos, specifically, a crime of belonging to a criminal organization given his “main role” in the network. created by businessman Víctor de Aldama to obtain business with public administrations.
The head of the Central Court of Instruction Two concludes, regarding the crime of influence peddling, that “the intervention” of the former minister in the awarding of contracts for the supply of masks would be accredited to the company of the contractor Aldama Soluciones de Gestión, as well as in the hiring of the woman with whom he then had a personal relationship in two public companies.
It should be remembered that a report from the Central Operational Unit of the Civil Guard stated that Aldama “used Koldo”, Ábalos’ former advisor, so that he could carry out different procedures with public administrations and officials from such departments. Among these procedures would be Koldo’s intermediation so that a commission agent’s company could acquire the accreditation of a “medicine broker” and thus launch the business related to PCR tests for the detection of COVID-19 in several Autonomous Communities. The status of Villafuel operator, however, would also be among these procedures facilitated by Koldo for the operation of the hydrocarbon fraudas well as other businesses for which the commission agent received the protection of the former minister.
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