The judge of the Supreme Court Leopoldo Puente, who investigates the former Minister of Transport and deputy of the José Luis Ábalos Congress, has put the accelerator in the case where they exist Signs of illegal commissions supposedly charged by the socialist politician and his advisor, … Koldo García, in exchange for benefiting the companies for which the commissioner Víctor de Aldama worked.
The latter, according to the first police reports of the case and its statement in judicial headquarters, I would have paid Ábalos An apartment in the Alcaidesa (Cádiz), would have paid for the house of his extramarital partner, Jessica Rodríguez, in the center of Madrid and would have made cash deliveries both to him and his advisor in exchange for receiving a favor treatment of the favor of the favor of the favor of the favor of the favor of the Ministry of Transport in terms of awards, both in the Health material contracts during pandemic as in other public works tenders. Ábalos was between 2020 and 2021 at the head of Transport and previously, between 2018 and 2020, he was Minister of Development.
Once the immunity that protected the Afforado has risen, thanks to the processing of the petition that the magistrate sent to the lower house -the acquaintance plea -, Puente on Tuesday ordered a wide battery of proceedings, including a patrimonial report on Ábalos and his son, Victor, to the Central Operating Unit (UCO) of the Civil Guard, «As soon as possible», Which contains information about the real estate of both, their accounts and societies.
The instructor also cited up to 17 witnesses who will have to go to the high court between February 25 and March 5. One of them is Carlos Moreno, Cabinet Director of the Minister of Finance, María Jesús Monterowhich is cited on March 4, at 10.30 am.
About him, Aldama affirmed in his statement as investigated that he would have given him, through Koldo García, an envelope with 25,000 euros In exchange for helping him to solve the postponement of the debt of one of his societies, as well as that before said request, Moreno would have consulted him about real estate opportunities for him and his partner.
In addition to Moreno, the judge also cited to testify to Jesús Manuel Gómez García, former secretary of the Ministry of Transportation; to Javier Herrero, former director general of roads; to Isabel Pardo de Vera, former president of Adif; To Jessica Rodríguez or the son of Ábalos, as well as different businessmen, including Carmen Pano, the woman who claimed to have taken 90,000 euros in plastic bags at Aldama’s request to the headquarters of the PSOE of Ferraz Street and who is investigated in The cause of alleged hydrocarbon fraud of the National Court for which Aldama entered provisional prison.
Payments to “Ladies”
Another of the proceedings that the instructor magistrate ordered the UCO on Tuesday was a report on communications between the three main investigated, Ábalos, Koldo García and Víctor de Aldama, in the mobiles requisitioned So far, as well as that “all of the terminals or devices intervened to either of the last two in the course of the investigations already practiced, with special reference to the messages that, at this time of the investigation, appear could appear could be Having exchanged, from any of the intervened terminals, Mr. Aldama with Mr. José Luis Ábalos, Víctor Ábalos, Ángel Víctor Torres or subordinates of the latter, Santos Cerdán or with Any other agorad person before this Supreme Court ».
Both at the National Court – as investigated in the Koldo case – and in the Supreme Court, once the investigation of the alleged corruption plot was extended to former Minister Ábalos, businessman Víctor de Aldama said he had paid15,000 euros in cash to the secretary of organization of the PSOE, Santos Cerdán, so that he did not bother because, as Koldo García had transferred, his companies were entering the territory of the north where he had his «quota»Of awards for which, he slid, Irregular commissions would also be taken.
The judge asked to track the mobiles of all those involved in search of communications with Santos Cerdán, as well as with the current Minister of Territorial Policy and former Canarian president, Ángel Víctor Torres. About him, Aldama said he would have paid apartments in Madrid to go, just like Ábalos, accompanied by «Ladies». Something that the Canarian politician He flatly deniedwarning of legal actions against the entrepreneur.
Well, the judge asked Aldama on Tuesday to “contribute, within ten days, The relationship of the floors that claims to have facilitated for meetings in which, according to, Don Ángel Víctor Torres and/or Don Koldo García Izaguirre and Don José Luis Ábalos participated in Madrid, dates of the contracts and stays and payment of them. And to also indicate if there was any payment to the “ladies” to whom he referred to in his statement and, where appropriate, Who paid it».
On the other hand, the Puente Instructor requested a calligraphic test of Koldo García to confirm if his letter corresponds to the annotations of the documents on the granting of public works provided by Aldama. Specified that it must be an expert calligraph who «will prepare the corresponding report in this regard».
The proof will consist of asking the exassor of Ábalos to write on a paper A text body and also stampe your signature.
As for Jessica Rodríguez, the judge already dropped one of the first cars of the case that would have to call her to testify later. Puente cited her For next February 27at 10 am.
He asked the company dependent on the Ministry of Transportation, Ineco, and the semi -public tragsatec indicating who hired the couple of Ábalos in them. He also asked the Ministry of Transport to report about official trips, both within Spain and abroad, in which, between the months of November 2018 to December 2022, Rodríguez was able to accompany Ábalosas well as the identity of the person or the account number from which the expenses generated as a result of their presence on such trips were paid.
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