José Luis Ábalos began his statement in the Supreme Court by talking about his relationship with his former advisor Koldo García. The former Secretary of Organization of the PSOE has indicated that García accompanied him “24 hours a day”, that he met him in the 2017 primaries and that he became his driver when the general secretary of the party, Pedro Sánchez, entrusted him with the Secretary of Organization of the PSOE. Later, when Ábalos became minister, he rewarded García’s “dedication and loyalty.” The trial enters its final stretch today with Ábalos’s statement. The record days of up to 14 hours in recent days forced the Supreme Court to modify an initial calendar that set the former minister’s statement for last Wednesday. This Monday it is finally the turn of Pedro Sánchez’s lieutenant in the PSOE as Secretary of Organization, currently in preventive detention, who faces a request for 24 years in prison for alleged rigging in mask contracts. He does so after this businessman accused last week without evidence the President of the Government of being in “echelon 1” of the “organized gang” and Ábalos in number two, for being the one who “gave and granted”, and pointed to the collection of bribes from construction companies also destined to finance the PSOE through donations, said the commission agent, and even to the Socialist International with “oil quotas” from Venezuela.
