The trial for the ‘Koldo case’ , which began this Tuesday in the Supreme Court, directly hits the PSOE, due to the alleged involvement of the former Minister of Transport José Luis Ábalos and his former advisor Koldo García, in the alleged irregularities committed in the mask contracts and more issues that are being judged in the high court. In this regard, one of the first people to testify was García's brother, Joseba García, who admitted that he went on two occasions to the headquarters of Ferraz of the party to collect "envelopes" with money.
In his statement as a witness he affirmed: “I have only been there twice that I remember and both times for that -to collect the envelopes-, I have never returned again”. Likewise, he accepted that he traveled to the Dominican Republic and that he received an envelope with documentation as a favor to the third accused in the plot, the businessman Víctor de Aldama.
From ‘ElConstitucional.es’ we have contacted sources from the PSOE to find out if they are uneasy, due to what these statements in the Supreme Court imply for the party's reputation. Thus, from the political party they assure that they rule out “one hundred percent that there has been illegal financing”, but, they admit that they are “concerned” by what the brother of Ábalos's former advisor recounted yesterday.
In the same way, they distance themselves from any involvement of the party and accuse the former Minister of Transport and Koldo of using “the PSOE as their beach bar” and, stressing that there has been no criminal act, they admit that “there was little seriousness in the payment of expenses, using cash”. “These people got even into the PSOE's kitchen,” the sources consulted by this newspaper reproach. Ending the conversation they criticize that “they passed the expense tickets they wanted.”
Paid 400 euros to Jessica Rodríguez
The statements by Koldo's brother did not stop there as he also argued that he paid 400 euros in cash to Ábalos' ex-partner, Jessica Rodríguez, after Aldama and Koldo agreed to it. “It was 400 euros on a trip; I gave them to her and that's it, nothing happens,” he affirmed.
In the same way, he explained his working relationship with Rodríguez. “I met her once at Ineco, I neither hired her nor requested her hiring nor did I know her at all. I have not been her boss, not even her superior, I was a coworker,” he pointed out.
Among the favors, the payment of two months of rent for the apartment in Madrid where Jéssica Rodríguez lived also stood out because Koldo asked him to. “My brother called me and asks me to, please, do it, and I do it,” he explained before the questions of his lawyer.
