Puente does not give veracity to Aldama, but will investigate the Ministry
The Minister of Transport and Sustainable Mobility, Óscar Puente, said this Thursday that it is not credible and that they point to alleged commissions collected by the former head of Transport José Luis Ábalos.
“I have to check it. It seems quite complex to me, not the topic, but well, let’s check, let’s see that list, let’s see, try to verify the procedures and see if we see anything strange,” Puente declared to the press in his arrival at a Council of European Transport Ministers in Brussels.
Puente has indicated that the Aldama documentation that he has been able to see is “a Official State Gazettean investment annex, underlining “that as evidence it really has little, little value” and has insisted that the adjudication procedure “involves many people.” “I am surprised that it is said that the minister has the capacity to decide who is awarded a work, that is, they are contracting tables in which the State lawyer is present, intervention, there are a lot of technicians…” aggregate.
Asked if he grants veracity to Aldama’s theses, Puente answered, “honestly no.” “Now, listen, I wasn’t around at that time. We have to see it, but let’s see, it sounds very strange to me considering what I’m telling you, right? A contracting procedure, the awarding of a public work, involves many people. There is an economic offer that weighs a lot,” he added.
Asked if he trusts that Ábalos would not do anything as minister that would compromise him, he said that he would need solid evidence to question him. “Honestly, I tell you, I would have, I have said it many times in relation to José Luis Ábalos. “I would have to see it to believe it and it would still be difficult for me,” he concluded. (Efe)
