Agents of the Central Operative Unit (UCO) of the Civil Guard appeared this Thursday at the headquarters of the Court of Accounts by order of the National Court judge who is investigating the cash payments of the PSOE, as confirmed by sources close to the case. Judge Ismael Moreno ordered this action after declaring secret, last December, the content of the pendrive that the party handed over with information about its accounts between 2017 and 2024.
This investigation constitutes a separate part of the Koldo case and was opened by Moreno at the request of Supreme Court judge Leopoldo Puente, who was in charge of the investigations against former Minister of Transport José Luis Ábalos and his former advisor, Koldo García.
Puente sent the National Court a Civil Guard report on Ábalos' assets, along with the documentation provided by the PSOE regarding the expense settlements of the Organization Secretariat, then headed by the former minister. The Supreme Court judge tasked Moreno with clarifying the "unknowns" regarding the possible commission of "irregular, and even potentially criminal activities."
Among the hypotheses handled by the instructor is that the PSOE could have "laundered", through cash payments, the criminal activities allegedly carried out by Ábalos and Koldo García.
For its part, the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office supported the opening of this investigation and specified that the PSOE as a political party is not being investigated. As it clarified, the investigations focus on the possibility that there had been a "possible embezzlement committed against the party."
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