The supreme cites to declare Ábalos and Koldo García once more for the indications of the UCO on “irregular and opaque” revenue | Spain | EUROtoday

The Justice of the Peace of the Supreme Court Leopoldo Puente has summoned to declare once more as investigated, on October 15 and 16, to José Luis Ábalos already who was his advisor to the Ministry of Transportation, Koldo García, in view of the report of the Central Operating Unit (UCO) of the Civil Guard on the patrimonial scenario of the previous socialist chief. According to the choose, that doc “comes to deepen the indications of crime that already consisted” within the trigger that Ábalos and its former assistant “could have maintained among themselves non -transparent methods of communication” of their respective property, “receiving indistinctly irregular and opaque income of diverse origin, eventually the fruit of the commission” of the Award of Award of Public Contracts.

The report that the UCO delivered final Friday within the Supreme has revived the political stress on the PSOE for the supposed irregular revenue and bills of whoever it was if Secretary of Organization and Minister of Transportation. The doc confirms that Ábalos spent greater than 95,000 euros than researchers discover no financial institution hint, which makes them doubt in regards to the origin of that cash. In addition, the Civil Guard refers to “a lack of concordance” between the documentation despatched by the PSOE to the Supreme Irregular, even if these envelopes, in keeping with the PSOE, correspond to fertilizers delivered to the previous minister and his former advisor “for justified expenses” which can be authorized by the Court of Accounts.

Speaking to TVE, former Minister Ábalos has indicated that the envelopes in his title that seem within the UCO report reply to the “procedure that management [del PSOE] established for the payment of early expenses ”and has warned that the report“ is not of gravity ”that“ some expected ”:“ What was expected was an enrichment of goods, current and expenses in 10 years that could be linked to those millionaire bites that were spoken of, and the result is 95,000 euros in this time that I will try to explain in which it is said that the origin is not known. The messages that appear in the Civil Guard report are “taken from context”, which can make them “equivocal conclusions”: “It would be very good to have all the chains of Whatsapps whole and also with other people and so we could understand whether this inference or this deduction is correct or not.

In addition to the political impact, the UCO report has already had a first judicial impact on Monday: after reading the document, the bridge magistrate considers it necessary again to declare Ábalos and García to be able to interrogate them about these facts. The instructor affirms that the investigated so far “are consistent indications” that among the assets of the former minister and who was his advisor “there could be significant areas of intersection”, so that the second “would be regularly taking care of payments that would correspond to the first”, such as the alimony of one of his children, payrolls of his domestic employee, gifts made by him to his friends Mortgages, trips and other personal expenses, “reaching these payments a truly significant amount in economic terms.”

However, the judge adds, the UCO has not found proof that Ábalos returned that money to his advisor, which suggests that Koldo García made those payments, “for benefit and benefit” of the then minister with none express counterpart; or, for Ábalos to be reimbursed “in metallic cash or in one other unknown method.”

The unlucky discovered by the UCO between the declared revenue of the previous socialist chief and the bills result in suspect, in keeping with Puente, that Ábalos may have “some irregular source of income”, which inserts “with the illegal receptions of money in cash that are attributed to him” and with the circumstance that stated quantities of cash had been delivered to each of them to Koldo García -“ And this, “one way or another, would assume a significant part of the corresponding expenses” to the then minister.

In that same direction he points out, warns the judge, another fact, which reveals the last report of the UCO: between 2014 and 2017 Áballos withdrew 22,890 euros in cash, almost always by card. But as of 2018, it stops getting money, and does not do it again until 2024. For the instructor, these indications “do not seem to be sympathy” with what he declared in his first appearance before the judge, when he assured that his relationship with Koldo García “did not pass from the ordinary between a minister with one of his several advisors, even more than the latter assumed the realization of certain domestic orders (going to look for tobacco to the minister Buy medicines, ”in keeping with the examples that the previous socialist chief put.

Those of subsequent week would be the fourth look of Ábalos and Koldo García earlier than the Judge of the Supreme. And the primary after the trainer’s choice to divide the trigger into two: an preliminary piece during which the masks buying contracts that gave rise to the case; and a separate piece to hint the alleged allegedly irregular awards of public works during which the previous secretary of group of the PSOE Santos Cerdán can also be concerned. As the Ábalos patrimonial report offers indications for each investigations, the trainer summons to attend all of the accusations and defenses of the 2 items.