Koldo García, former advisor to former socialist leader José Luis Ábalos, has denied that he was involved and committed any crime in an alleged scheme to collect bribes in the Ministry of Transportation in exchange for awarding contracts for the purchase of masks in the worst of the covid pandemic. Koldo García’s lawyer, Letizia de la Hoz, presented this Friday at the Supreme Court the defense brief for her client, who is scheduled to be tried in the coming months for this part of the investigations. The version of Ábalos’ former collaborator contradicts that of commission agent Víctor de Aldama, who this Thursday admitted the crimes in search of a reduction in sentences.
Koldo García is currently in provisional prison. The Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office has demanded that he be sentenced to 19 and a half years in prison for this part of the investigations.
In the document now sent by Koldo García’s defense, which is 132 pages long and to which EL PAÍS has had access, the lawyer requests that, among others, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, current Minister of the Interior, be summoned as witnesses at the trial; Francina Armengol, former president of the Balearic Islands and current president of Congress; Salvador Illa, former Minister of Health and current President of Catalonia; and Isabel Pardo de Vera, former president of Adif.
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