The Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office has asked the National Court judge to bring former Adif president Isabel Pardo de Vera and Jéssica Rodríguez, former partner of former minister José Luis Ábalos, one step closer to trial, and to dismiss the case for several former officials of the Ministry of Transport implicated in the Koldo case.
In a document accessed by Europa Press, the Public Prosecutor's Office also requests that the proceedings continue towards an eventual trial for Koldo García, former advisor to Ábalos and the name of the case, and for businessman Víctor de Aldama, both already convicted by the Supreme Court to prison sentences in the so-called mask case.
Anti-Corruption separates those it wants to bring to trial from those it intends to remove from the case
The Prosecutor's request also includes Rubén Villalba, Civil Guard commander; Joseba García, Koldo's brother; Patricia Uriz, former partner of the former ministerial advisor; and businessmen Ignacio Díaz, Javier Serrano, César Moreno, Juan Carlos Cueto and Íñigo Rotaeche, in addition to former Adif official Ignacio Zaldívar.
The document also includes the company Soluciones de Gestión, linked to Aldama, which was awarded during the pandemic, by Transportes —through Puertos del Estado and Adif— and by the regional governments of Canary Islands and Balearic Islands, several mask contracts now under investigation.
The investigation focuses on alleged irregularities in the purchase of sanitary material and in the hiring of Ábalos's former partner in the public companies Ineco and Tragsatec. Anti-Corruption attributes to the investigated individuals alleged crimes of criminal organization, bribery, influence peddling, money laundering and against the Public Treasury.
The Prosecutor's Office requests dismissal for several names, understanding that there is no crime or that certain facts are not prosecutable
At the same time, the prosecutor requests the dismissal of the proceedings opened against former Adif officials and individuals linked to other defendants, such as Aldama and Koldo. According to the document, "certain facts and behaviors are not prosecutable" and, in other cases, no crime is imputed to certain individuals.
Among those excluded from the request for trial are former Adif senior official Michaux Miranda, Piedad Losada —who was Aldama's secretary— and Alberto Escolano, who signed the lease agreement for the central Madrid apartment where Ábalos's former partner resided.
Anti-Corruption also requests the dismissal for Jesús Manuel Gómez, Undersecretary of Transport when the department was headed by Ábalos; Álvaro Sánchez Manzanares, former Secretary General of Puertos del Estado; Daniel Sierra, representative of Soluciones de Gestión; José Luis Rodríguez, linked to Juan Carlos Cueto; Israel Pilar Ortiz, related to Koldo and Aldama; Rogelio Pujalte, recipient of a transfer from Soluciones de Gestión; Patricia Ramos, Aldama's ex-partner; María Auxiliadora Luque, linked to the former advisor, and Andoni García, Koldo's brother.
The course of the procedure already has a precedent in the Supreme Court, which partially judged the mask case due to Ábalos's status as a privileged deputy when he was prosecuted. That court sentenced the former minister to 24 years in prison, imposed 19 years on Koldo García and set four for Aldama, whom it did not send to prison for his cooperation with justice during the investigation.
Now it will be the judge of the Audiencia Nacional who must decide whether to grant the request of Anti-Corruption to bring the accused to trial and dismiss the interested cases.