The judge of the National Court that instructs the Koldo case has requested that all data Management Solutionsa company linked to the plot, are provided to the Treasury inspector so that she can prepare a report with the amounts that Victor de Aldamathe achiever, may have defrauded the Public Treasury in fiscal year 2020.
The magistrate Ismael Moreno has responded to the prosecutor of the case, Luis Pastorthat this technical assistance was of interest to find out if there were frauds to the treasury in that year in which the contracts under investigation were concluded.
Pastor also requested that this Treasury official be summoned to court so that she could take possession and be authorized to access the Cloud – cloud access to the summary – and in this way could have “the necessary documents for the development of assistance.”
Moreno, however, does not see it necessary for her to be summoned and simply agrees to be provided with documents and provided by the Central Operational Unit (UCO) of the Civil Guard “as much information of interest” as they consider about what they are investigating.
This case investigates the alleged irregularities that could have occurred in the awarding of several public contracts for the acquisition of masks during the pandemic.
Precisely this same month, the Supreme Court agreed to open a case against the deputy and former Minister of Transport José Luis Ábalos for alleged crimes of belonging to a criminal organization, influence peddling, bribery and embezzlement, after Moreno urged that he be investigated for his “main role” in the alleged plot.
It took the inspector more than three years to uncover it
Raul Burillothe tax inspector of the delegation of Aragon that uncovered the Koldo caseexplained this Monday in the Senate that this file led him “three and a half years of research“, but has barely offered information about its content, for the summary secret imposed by the National Court
On one occasion he has even taken advantage of his constitutional right not to testify. This has happened when Gerardo Campssenator of PPhas asked him if he has made any more reports after sending his file to the court last February. Camps has explained to him that although it does not concern either the secrecy as an inspector or the secrecy of the summary, he could not answer given “the complexity of the response” that he would need.
Before the senators began their questions, Burillo gave a story in which he explained how a routine inspection action that began in April 2020 in a specific company “turned into a long inspection” that involved more people over time. legal and physical.
He has indicated that he was not familiar with any of the names of the people inspected, not even that of the person who gave the case its name, in reference to Koldo Garciaformer advisor to former minister José Luis Ábalos. It was “a normal and ordinary inspection”, of which he did not suspect the political implication that it would acquire.
He has also assured that he never had “any limitation or suggestion” from his hierarchical superiors in his inspection work. “If I am here it is because someone has breached their duty of secrecy,” Burillo noted when describing the “special damage” of having his name transcended in this case.
Burillo’s career, from Treasury director to politician
Burillo is a professor of constitutional law and was a director of the Treasury before returning to inspector work in Aragon, and between 2004 and 2010, as a delegate of the Tax Agency in Balearic Islandshad an important role in the Nóos casethe one who took Iñaki Urdangarín.
In his role as a politician, he was a candidate for MEP for the Partyfounded the leftist party Demo+was spokesperson for Zaragoza in Commonand last year mayor in Zaragoza for Aragon Existswithout obtaining the councilor’s certificate.
Burillo explained to the senators that on February 1, 2024 he ended the investigation without specific motivation: “Almost when I felt like it.” Therefore, in his opinion, the dismissals within the Tax Agency with which he may have coincided on those dates have no relationship with his file.
Burillo: “I couldn’t tell him either”
“I don’t know that they are those people, but if I knew I wouldn’t be able to tell you either,” was one of his responses, an example of how he tried to complete the appearance despite being “on a knife’s edge” to avoid contravening the duty of secrecy.
He stressed that he wanted to offer “all possible transparency within the limitations”, repeatedly regretting not giving more information, during his hour and a half appearance. “When the Anticorruption Prosecutor’s Office begins its investigations, I already had my conclusions”, he pointed out regarding a possible overlap in the investigations.
And in his last response, when Camps indicated that among the four crimes that are being judicially investigated there is no tax crimealthough they appear in the summary, Burillo added: “But it will be investigated.”
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