The former president of Adif declares to the decide of the 'Koldo case' that she met the commissioner Aldama when she went to fulfill Ábalos on the ministry | EUROtoday

The investigation into the Koldo case continues this week with new statements. This Monday, the previous president of Adif appeared within the National Court Isabel Pardo de Vera and two senior officers of the railway infrastructure supervisor on the time when the masks had been bought from the investigated community.

Pardo de Vera has defined to the decide Ismael Moreno that when he went to fulfill with the then minister José Luis Ábalos it was frequent to fulfill with Victor de Aldamathe principle dealer within the plot. She noticed him on the identical third flooring the place the minister's workplace was, defined the witness, who specified that she was by no means clear about what Aldama's function was within the Department of Transport.

His assertion coincides with the preliminary thesis of the investigators that Aldama “had a special pass in the Ministry of Transport,” in response to the investigating decide within the first resolutions issued after the arrest of these underneath investigation.

Pardo de Vera added that it was Koldo Garciathen advisor to Ábalos, who known as her to inform her that she ought to go to see the minister, in response to sources conversant in the assertion.

In her assertion, the witness criticized the inner report ready by order of the present minister, Oscar Puenteon the masks buying course of being investigated within the Koldo case. The witness has acknowledged that it’s an “incomplete” report, though she has indicated that she understands the minister's motivation for ordering it. In her opinion, moreover, it doesn’t meet the traits to be thought-about an audit.

She was not the one one to criticise this report. The different two witnesses cited under additionally did so: the Director of Human Resources at Adif, Martín José Navarro Vicentand the Financial and Management Control Director, Manuel Fresno CastroThe latter has questioned a few of the figures included within the report ready by Transport.

Former Minister Ábalos submitted to the decide an knowledgeable report opposing the one ready by order of his successor. He did so concurrently requesting the investigating decide to seem as a sufferer within the case, alleging that the report ordered by Puente sought to level to him as answerable for the awards underneath suspicion.

In addition to the anti-corruption prosecutor, the witnesses have answered questions from the favored accusations Make Yourself Heard, Liberum, PP y Vox.

The statements will proceed tomorrow with the testimony of the top of Human Resources at Adif, Jesús Ángel Díaz, and that of the secretary of the Board of Directors Guillermo Martínez de Simón. On Wednesday it will likely be the flip of the director normal of Budgets of the Ministry of Finance and former director normal of Organisation and Inspection of the Ministry of Transport, Javier Sánchez Fuentefría, and the previous deputy director normal of Planning and Management of Infrastructure and Resources of the State Secretariat for Security, Daniel Belmar.

On Thursday, the previous head of personnel at Adif will seem as a defendant Michaux Miranda.