The Senate postpones the appearance of Javier Hidalgo in the Koldo case commission because the Interior is “unable to locate him”

The Popular Party has once again requested the appearance of the former CEO of Globalia in the Senate and demands that the Government collaborate to locate Hidalgo. Specifically they point to three ministries to shed light on the whereabouts of the businessman. These are: the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in case Hidalgo were outside Spain, to use its embassy service to clarify his whereabouts. Also to the Ministry of Finance, since “he is a taxpayer and the Tax Agency must know his tax address”, as PP sources point out. Likewise, they demand the collaboration of the Ministry of Industry and Tourism, while “Hidalgo is one of the main businessmen in the tourism sector.”

Sources from the Popular Party point to the Government for “hinder” the commission promoted by the popular ones, who enjoy an absolute majority in the Senate, ensuring that it is not the first time that the Interior is unable to locate a person appearing to send the summons. It already happened, these same sources claim, with a former deputy general director of Economic and Asset Management in 2020, José Manuel Fraile Azpeitia, whose appearance was suspended, and with Koldo García himself, protagonist of the plot whose whereabouts were not clarified by the Interior.

The popular ones discredit these Interior incidents and remember that the owner himself assured in his own appearance in the Upper House commission that “he was willing to collaborate with the Commission to help in whatever was necessary.” «Sanchez he is very afraid that the whole truth is known about the corruption plot that surrounds him,” said the spokesperson for the Popular Party in the Senate, Alicia García.

Javier Hidalgo was called to appear before the commission of investigation into the Koldo case in the Senate days after the latest report from the Central Operational Unit (UCO) of the Civil Guard on Economic Crime in the Koldo casewhich pointed out the relationship between the commission agent of the plot, Víctor de Aldama, with the former Minister of Transportation José Luis Ábalos, as key to promoting the rescue of AirEuropa airline, of which Hidalgo was CEO, through the State Society of Industrial Participations (SEPI).

«The conversations found in the intercepted electronic devices allow us to appreciate in an indicative way how Aldama used his relationship with Koldo-Abalos to include in the final grant of the rescue to Air Europa,” read the report consulted by ABC.