Ábalos responds to his request with complaints in opposition to the Civil Guard and the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office | Spain | EUROtoday

José Luis Ábalos goes on the counterattack. The former Socialist Minister of Development and former Secretary of Organization of the PSOE has registered with the State Attorney General’s Office this Thursday an initiative wherein he denounces an unlawful motion by brokers of the Civil Guard months in the past wherein they’d have intercepted an envelope with messages that carried by Koldo García’s brother and that he believes is a part of an operation with out judicial assist. Ábalos used his platform as a deputy now assigned to the Mixed Group, as a result of he was expelled from the socialist group, to seem in Congress and denounce this motion of the Civil Guard, but additionally the agreements that he believes the fee agent and mastermind of the plot, Víctor de Aldama, with the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office. The deputy doesn’t plan to resign his report and as soon as once more insisted that he has not enriched himself, that Koldo García’s bribes and enhance in property usually are not confirmed and that Aldama shouldn’t be trusted.

The one who was quantity two of the PSOE within the first stage in Pedro Sánchez’s Government has been denouncing for months, in numerous appearances, that within the Koldo case, wherein he’s affected, his constitutional rights and particularly his privateness have been violated. This Thursday, in the midst of a plenary session that’s anticipated to be very sophisticated for the Government and for the get together of which he was a considerable half and which has now opened an expulsion file for him, Ábalos summoned the press to clarify that on Wednesday he registered a criticism within the State Attorney General’s Office for an alleged crime of interception of his non-public correspondence, in response to article 535 of the Penal Code.

The former minister thus alluded to an motion that happened on November 4, 2023. Then Koldo García, his former assistant within the Ministry and the PSOE, was nonetheless collaborating with him and, throughout a dialog recorded and included into the abstract, the previous advisor requested him his brother, Joseba García, to carry the previous minister documentation that that they had given him on the Ministry of Transportation. Koldo García had eaten the day earlier than with the undersecretary of the ministry, Jesús Manuel Gómez. The Rapid Action Group (GAR) of the Civil Guard then launched an operation to intercept Joseba García through the journey between Polop de la Marina (Alicante), Koldo’s residence and the place he needed to accumulate the paperwork, and the previous minister’s dwelling. in Valencia.

The management system stopped that morning at 8:55 at kilometer level 541.5 of the AP-7 freeway in the direction of Valencia the Ford Tourneo car pushed by Joseba García and he instructed the brokers that he was heading to that metropolis to take a espresso with Ábalos in a bar that he did not keep in mind, however that he had written down on his telephone. “When proceeding to search the vehicle,” writes the agent who intervened, “a white folio-sized envelope was observed above the passenger seat, inside which were 3 documents.” The writings consult with the dispute he had with a lawyer, Ramiro Grau, who denied him the requested documentation relating to the contracting file with Management Solutions. The envelope additionally contained on paper the audit report that the Court of Auditors ready in 2022 on Covid-19 contracts, and which is accessible by means of that group’s web site. The Civil Guard drew suspicious conclusions about these occasions: “During the time in which Ábalos was head of the Ministry, 10,757 public contracts were awarded, being notable the concern maintained by Koldo García to send him those contracts related to those concluded with the company Soluciones de Gestión ”. Ábalos later defined that he had requested this documentation to arrange the lawsuit in opposition to that lawyer, from whom he claimed compensation of 70,000 euros.

The former socialist chief understands that this complete Civil Guard operation is unlawful, it has no judicial assist and that the Prosecutor’s Office ought to defend his rights in a democratic State “regardless of how a certain character may fall,” referring to himself. The former minister has requested a number of instances in his capability as deputy for solutions to this operation by means of the Cortes from the Ministry of the Interior of Fernando Grande Marlaska and was answered, he believes very “briefly”, that every one the actions of the Judicial Police are accompanied by courtroom orders. An reply that doesn’t fulfill him. He calls for far more from Marlaska, in his capability as choose.

Ábalos tried to restrict his look solely to that matter however the journalists requested him on a number of events about his political and judicial state of affairs, now that the Supreme Court has already formally demanded his request from Congress and that Aldama himself has clearly identified to him in his assertion earlier than that courtroom. The Mixto deputy denied once more that he had turn into wealthy and appealed to his lifestyle to show it. He additionally rejected any pact in his protection technique or with Koldo García, who maintained in his presentation earlier than the Supreme Court that Ábalos was not conscious of something, nor with the PSOE or the Government, with whom he stated he has not had any contact. Of course, relating to Koldo García he added that he has supplied an knowledgeable report wherein he dismantles the theories in regards to the unjustified enhance in his property.

The deputy did need to level out, nonetheless, that he finds the attainable pact that Aldama himself, whom he referred to as a “confessed criminal, with the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office to allow him freedom after having entered prison and then formulating a statement before the court “to incriminate members of the Government in exchange for obtaining freedom on the same day.” Ábalos even allowed himself to boast in regards to the degree and amount of paperwork that he has supplied within the case, lots of them primarily based on experiences and inside audits of the present Ministry of Transportation, in comparison with the mere photocopies of different defendants.