The magistrate of the Supreme Court Leopoldo Puente, who investigates the former Minister of Transportation, José Luis Ábalos, for crimes of corruption, has issued a car this Monday in which it makes clear that the cause against the politician dates back to January 2014 and … No to the spring of 2020.
At the beginning of the pandemic, public contracts were signed to bring sanitary material to Spain for 53 million euros with the company Management Solutions, represented by Víctor de Aldama, who is investigated whether he paid direct or indirect commissions both to Áballos and his then advisor in the Ministry of Transportation, Koldo García.
However, the instructor rules out that the only thing that is addressed in the investigation are said mascale contracts – as Ábalos has considered that it should be in different resources – and confirms that the investigation dates back to eleven years ago.
«It results in everything necessary to extend these investigations until several years before Mr. Ábalos became knowledge and relationship with Mr. de Aldama, and with Mr. García Izaguirre himself, as interested, since January 1, 2014 -, to the extent that only then can they be known if they have existed, on the occasion of these new relationships, significant changes in the economic behaviors or economic behaviors of Mr. Meco, in relation to the greater or lesser significant disposition of banking funds to meet their expenses, which, cousin facie, would be substantially unnecessary in the event that it was true that it had been perceiving certain amounts in metallic, mediating from its advisor and immediately of the Mr. de Aldam You can read in the car, in which the magistrate gives validity to Aldama’s claims in relation to the proceedings already practiced in the cause.
The now deputy of the Mixed Group in the Congress of Deputies has resorted to the investigation that is followed against him in the High Court for the crimes of criminal organization, bribery, embezzlement and influence peddling considering, among other reasons, which is prospective. He also complains that the Civil Guard collected in the report on its real estate outside Spain (one in Colombia and two in Peru) that are no longer in their possession or have not been found in the open sources that agents liked as those consulted to prepare it.
“It was Mr. Ábalos Meco himself, as with all evidence results from the audiovisual recording of the declaration borrowed -who considered appropriate to refer to this land located in Peru, -no allusion made to the one who appears in his name in Colombia-, to explain the reasons why, he said, the ground (and not the construction erected on him) was inscribed in his favor. They formulated subsequent questions in order to specify their manifestations regarding said property, “said the magistrate.
In its 24 -page resulted by ABC, the instructor rules out that the instruction is prospective and confirms that he not only investigates whether the politician and his advisor favored the commissioner’s company with Covid contracts, but also the hiring of his extramarital ex -partner, Jessica Rodríguez, in two public companies; The rental payments of the floor where it resided in the central Plaza de España in Madrid that Aldama’s partner, Luis Alberto Escolano, picked up; The payment of the rent of a house in the Alcaidesa (Cádiz) which also occupied the environment of the commissioner and the contract of sale of an apartment on the Paseo de la Castellana of Madrid that did not get to sealed but reflected a lower price than the floors of the same area.
It remains importance to the mistake of the UCO
Bridge also refers to a bulk error of the Civil Guard of the aforementioned patrimonial report from which Ábalos complained and that the instructor assumes as his own. The agents encrypted in 2.1 million euros the price of the land of Colombia that Ábalos had until 2013 when in reality it did not cost or 1,000 euros, because it was Colombian pesos and not dollars, while the investigators made the change of American dollars to euros.
“Warned the error only remains, after admitting it, rectifying it, explaining your reasons, and apologizing for it. Admitted, rectified and explained the reasons that produced it, I honestly apologize for it. But I also emphasize that it is an error that lacks, fortunately, of any consequence in this cause,” you can read in the resolution.
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