The declaration of has given new ammunition to the PP in its parliamentary offensive against the PSOE. The young woman’s statement that for two and a half years (between March 2019 and September 2021) was hired by the Public Companies INECO, under the Ministry of Transportation, and Tragsatec, linked to agriculture, but who did not work for a single day for them despite collecting a salary, has taken the popular to request the appearance of the current holders of the two departments, Óscar Puente and Luis Plato, Open in the Senate by the Koldo caseas reported on Sunday the game. In parallel, the formation of Alberto Núñez Feijóo will ask that both ministers also appear the Congress of Deputies to explain the allegedly irregular hiring of the young woman with public money. The absolute majority of the PP in the Upper House ensures that the proposal will go ahead. Bridge will be the second time you go to this commission, after having done so in November. “We hope that, in this second citation in the Investigation Commission, Mr. Puente will be good to tell the truth and not hide relevant information,” the popular underline in their note.
The PP want both to explain in both cameras what they consider “supposed cases of embezzlement and influence peddling” for the hiring of the young woman and “the use of public money to pay sexual favors.” The popular have announced that the appearance “as soon as possible” of Jessica R. herself “so that she can explain the way in which the former Minister of Transport [Ábalos] He paid his services with the money of all Spaniards ”, as well as several positions of the companies indicated. Specifically, Jesús Casas Grande, president of the Tragsa Group; Carmen Librero, President of Ineco in 2020; Juan Pablo González Mat, director of Tragsatec; and Belén Villar Sánchez, current general director of Organization and Inspection of the Ministry of Transportation, and the popular ones point out as the author of the audit commissioned by Puente when the scandal broke out now a year ago and “in which, according to the minister, he saw nothing weird in public companies.”
The parliamentary offensive of the PP occurs days after the ex -partner of Áballos corroborate in the Supreme Court that was hired in two public companies and that, despite collecting every month, never really worked on them. Jessica R., who compressed as a witness and, therefore, forced to tell the truth, said she got those works after giving her curriculum to the former minister and did not know who paid the floor located in Plaza de España in Madrid in which she lived for three years, but what. The former minister’s relationship with Jessica R. is part of the investigation because reports of the Central Operating Unit (UCO) of the Civil Guard revealed that the plot paid the rent of this floor.
Regarding the positions he occupied in two public companies, the ex -partner of Ábalos said that the contracts were managed by Joseba García, brother of Koldo García, and that she did not really go to her job or worked at a distance, but that she was charged. As he said, then he did not know that Ineco and Tragsasec were public companies, something that, he said, had just learned. As he said, in Ineco they hired her as administrative assistant of Joseba García, met with him and told her to call her when she needed her, but never did. He charged 1,060 euros per month, but “never” did anything related to that position, he admitted. For all these reasons, the PP announced this Sunday that “it will now use all institutional mechanisms at its disposal to clarify these facts and obtain answers in the coming weeks.”
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