The Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office has challenged the appeal presented by HazteOír against the refusal of the judge of the National Court investigating the Koldo case to summon the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, and the former Minister of Economy, Nadia Calviño, as witnesses, with a report in the that questions both the usefulness and the route of that diligence: «What were they going to say? That José Luis Ábalos had meetings with them? To which they would answer affirmatively because he was a member of the Government of Spain,” he alleges.
The position of the Public Ministry, which is shared by the investigating judge, is that “at the current procedural moment it would contribute nothing to the clarification of the facts, without prejudice to the fact that in the future such diligence could be relevant, either at the headquarters of the National Court or in that of the Supreme Court”, because this is one of the keys to the matter, that the part that affects the former minister is already being investigated there.
As he reasons, in the reasoned presentation of facts and indications that the judge sent to the Supreme Court to request the indictment “there are references to the participation that José Luis Ábalos may have had in the approval of the rescue of Air Europa, a participation that may have relevance to the “The effects of a criminal investigation would determine that the Criminal Chamber of the Supreme Court should also hear about it.”
Same argument when he answers Vox to oppose carrying out proceedings on that rescue and that of the Duro Felguera company: “it should be the Honorable Investigating Magistrate (of the Supreme Court) who decides on this issue, since it concerns, for the moment, a gauge.
For the prosecutor, it is thus “precipitous for this Court to proceed with the practice of the intended testimony” and on which the Criminal Chamber will now have to rule, because the instructor, Ismael Moreno, has rejected the appeal for reform and it will be raised on appeal, as stated in the documentation of the case to which ABC had access.
«The testimonial statements of Mr. Sánchez Castellón and Ms. Calviño Santamaría will contribute nothing new, since the true significance of the actions or interventions before other instances of the General Administration of the State or other public administrations, and their true ability to determine administrative actions unrelated to what was its strict sphere of competence “It must be determined in light of the information obtained by the investigating police unit, as progress is made in the examination of the content of the different documentation and digital evidence obtained.” That is, he adds, the »correct« way to advance the investigation.
A “continuous collection of documents”
The appeal will also resolve the judge’s last denial of the Popular Party’s claim, which requested testimonies to determine the extent to which Air Europa and Globalia Broker were involved in the Puertos del Estado mask contract when, according to the prosecutor, “they have already “it has been proven” that it transported the material from China at the beginning, without it being stated that people linked to that company had any intervention in the purchasing process.
«It cannot be forgotten that what is investigated in this procedure is the determination of any criminal irregularities that may have occurred in the processes of awarding contracts for the supply of masks to the company Soluciones de Gestión y Apoyo a la Empresa SL, and In this process there is no intervention from either Air Europa or Globalia Broker, their intervention is limited to being included in the contract it had signed with Soluciones,” says Anticorrupción.
Nor have requests for other accusations and some defense been successful in the first instance, such as that of Michaux Miranda, who requested a documentary on the acquisition of one million masks in Adif from the company Innjoo Tecnology SL «The criminal process cannot become a continuous collection of documents that may tangentially be related to what is being investigated and that, in reality, will contribute little or nothing new, both for the clarification of the facts and for the defense of those investigated,” the prosecutor replies. The judge has rejected it.
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