A mystery surrounds the case of corruption to the government. Where are the five million euros that, according to Judge Puente and prosecutor Luzón, enriched by illegal commissions the alleged corrupt plot composed of -, his main advisor, and ―Exsecretary of Organization of the PSOE, imprisoned since last July 1 -?
Almost two years after the Anti -Corruption Prosecutor’s Office uncovered an alleged corrupt network within the Ministry of Transportation and the investigation began – with telephone punctures, beacons in vehicles for personalized follow -ups and analysis of patrimonial documentation of all kinds – there are hardly any clues of the destination given to the money of the bites.
Nothing is known about the path traveled by those five million euros – a lack that the judge calculates through an “inference based on the logic of experience” – until reaching its last beneficiaries. There is not even an indication of where the fortune of pillage has been deposited and what is the exact origin of the funds used to corrupt public office.
At this time, several false complaints – as well as considered by the Prosecutor’s Office themselves, have reached the existence of accounts in a Bank of the Dominican Republic in the name of the Middle Government of Pedro Sánchez, of the State Attorney General, and also of Santos Cerdán.
In this scenario contaminated by some bulos, judges (of the National Court and the Supreme Court), Anti-Corruption Prosecutors and Civil Guards seek the Black Money Botín that supposedly led a triennium (2018-2021) of bites and amaños
Cerdán, Ábalos and García, the trio of the alleged corruption, accused, bribery and traffic of influences, continue to deny the most serious facts of this story of illicit management.
Ábalos, a former minister accused of plugging and collection of brights
José Luis Ábalos, lives under surveillance, accused and with precautionary measures. The investigation has proved that he used his position to plug in public companies several women.
With one of them, this woman lived two years in a expensive apartment in the center of Madrid paid by a collaborator of Víctor Aldama, the commissioner who became a millionaire thanks to the treatment deals in the Ministry of Transportation.
Aldama allied a company, transport, interior and the socialist governments of Balearic Islands and the Canary Islands. These institutions bought masks for more than 50 million euros at the worst of the pandemic.
The Anti -Corruption Prosecutor’s Office saw nothing irregular in these awards, since when they occurred there were no ordinary controls on public procurement, but suspected that Aldama, who won six million for his efforts in full health emergency, supposedly distributed benefits with whom they had provided it: Koldo García and José Luis Ábalos.
The recordings of this bite payment; Aldama does not appear in compromising audios or talk about masks. However, the recordings do reveal the alleged illicit enrichment of Minister Ábalos, to which some construction companies benefited during their stage in front of transport.
Meanwhile, the UCO investigation into the heritage of Ábalos has only led to the presentation of reports with embarrassing errors that had to correct – a lot in two million dollars in a remote area of Colombia that actually cost 700 euros and that the former minister had sold in 2013 – or serious suspicions, clarified a minute after the Uco sent them to the judge, over 500,000 euros without 500,000 euros without 500,000 euros without 500,000 euros without 500,000 euros He charged Ábalos or the salary of Congress he received by bank transfer through the Socialist Parliamentary Group.
Santos Cerdán, former secretary of Organization of the PSOE, is the only one of the three main ones involved in the corrupt plot that is in preventive detention. The anti -corruption chief prosecutor, Alejandro Luzón, is convinced that Cerdán is the brain of the criminal network and that his exit from the jail would entail a high risk of destruction of evidence. Although neither Luzón nor the instructor magistrate supported registering his home or seizing their electronic devices, a logical measure adopted against Ábalos and Cerdán, to combat the possible destruction of evidence. They only ordered the Civil Guard to enter the national headquarters of the PSOE to dump the content of the computers used by the former Secretary of Organization. The UCO has not yet informed about the result of this diligence.
The suspicions of Amaño of public works contracts start within a few months of reaching the Ministry of Transportation, when Santos Cerdán was not yet secretary of the PSOE organization. The amaños investigated correspond to the period from June 2018 to July 2021, at which time Sánchez dismissed Ábalos of all his positions, also those of the party, and. The relationship of works that, according to Koldo’s recordings, included the collection of bites, does not affect the alleged business links in Cerdán with the Navarra Servinabar company and the works done in that autonomous community.
Koldo García, the alleged controller of the plot management
Koldo García, the advisor who arrived at the Ministry recommended by Santos Cerdán, is the protagonist of the main suspicion that led to the Anti -Corruption Prosecutor’s Office to dismantle a corrupt plot in the Ministry of Transport.
The Minister’s main advisor entered cash in his bank accounts amounts of unknown origin, according to the Civil Guard: 37,000 euros in 2019 – also arrived at the Ministry; 75,000 in 2020 – the year that favored a ball of 16 million euros to two entrepreneurs, one of them Commissioner Aldama, for the sale of masks; 95,000 in 2021 – last year in which he worked in Transportes – and 88,000 in 2022.
The Civil Guard discounted from these amounts those cash income as a result of returns, reimbursement of expenses, trips or purchases of plane tickets and had a balance of 138,000 euros that it attributed to the collection of bites. Anticorruption supported this thesis. In addition, the Minister’s advisor acquired in those years up to three homes in Benidorm. Koldo García’s defense prepares a patrimonial report where he intends to justify all income of unknown origin. The Ábalos advisor did not clarify it when the country asked him several months ago for these events:
Garcia: Ten months before the procedure began, I charged compensation of 65,000 euros. And the statements of my income, all, are 15 years. It seems to me that, if I’m not mistaken, they are 40,000 euros, 40 and a thousand euros working as an escort, and then at 110,000 euros.
The country: and metallic income at the bank, how does it justify them?
Koldo García: I charged 65,000 euros 10 months before.
The country: but it would be by bank transfer.
Garcia: Yes, yes, yes. I sent it to him …
The country: yes, but what I want to tell him is that in that document that facilitated us there was an account number, and here the Civil Guard calls attention to cash, metallic.
Garcia: I repeat, 10 months before I charge 65,000 euros. And I take the 65,000 euros, I pay a couple of debts and the rest of the money I remain or do what I want. Okay? That is something I can do. It is my money and I have taken it from the bank. If I then decide to have plenty of, okay? To put some money is a problem of mine.
Cerdán: a monthly bonus of the municipal pool and the family return to his people
Cerdán entails an accusation of the commissioner Víctor de Aldama impossible to demonstrate. The businessman says that he allegedly paid 15,000 euros in a bar next to the headquarters of the PSOE because he had to distribute bites by public works amaños in northern Spain. In the recordings of Koldo García, no audio appears on that circumstance and Cerdán says that he has not seen in his life the corrupt confessed aldama of organization has not participated in the bites charged by a mistress of contracts in the Ministry of Transportation. His lawyers contribute some documents – as the voucher of the municipal pool of his people, Milagro, where he spent the holidays last year – to prove the standard of living of Cerdán, whose salary is enough to pay his daughter’s career (1,800 euros per month), the rental of the floor in which they lived a month ago (2,200 euros), the rental of the car he uses and little more, according to his lawyers. The investigation has not found anything relevant, “said those recordings by Koldo García where Cerdán barely speaks – about the five million euros in bites that was supposedly distributed in several years with the minister and his advisor.
