Former Socialist Minister Jose Luis Abalos He registered a document in Congress denouncing the alleged manipulation and irregular collection of allowances at the Port of Valencia and requesting clarifications from the Ministry of Transport headed by his successor. Oscar Puente.
This is the last initiative registered by Abalos before his statement on Thursday before the Supreme Court, to which he was also summoned Koldo Garciain which he could be ordered to temporarily imprisonment after a 24-year imprisonment request by the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office.
In his initiative, which he published on social networking sites Mar chowproposed by the Valencian government Carlos Mazzone.
Final approval for the appointment of the President of the Port Authority of Spain is given by the Council of Ministers of the Central Government, following the proposal made by the Regional Executive, in this case, by the Conseil Valenciano.
Once the proposal is submitted, the designation must be communicated to the Department of Transport and made official through its publication in the Official State Gazette (BOE).
Chow was chosen as an independent figure with experience between 2006 and 2009, during the PSOE-BNG dual government in Xunta de Galicia with the Socialist Party. Emilio Perez Torreño before.
At that time, she held the position of Director General of Transport, which included heading the public entity. Ports of Galicia.
Abalos, who is being investigated for hiring several friends and his girlfriend in public companies, also alludes to the “recruitment of supposedly manipulative employees for six administrative and technical positions outside the agreement” in the Port of Valencia.
The former minister also speaks about alleged irregularities in employment.”“alleged fraud”such as a contract worth 160,930 euros with a law firm that “was not finally completed after a warning from the CNMC.”
Everything is collected in the report It was carried out between September 2024 and February 2025 by a team of officials from the regional intervention in Valencia in 2023 and 2024, and was reported by several media outlets.
This is not the first time that Abalos accuses Puente. This summer, the former minister filed a complaint against the two people responsible for the internal audit ordered by his successor. Oscar PuenteTo review Ministry of Transport contracts during the pandemic.
In this study, Abalos was identified as the main person responsible, but the former Minister asserts that the Director-General and the expert had committed documentary fraud and perjury in preparing this report.
In another recorded text, the former minister addresses the head of the interior, saying: Fernando Grande Marlaskafollowing the fact that the sub-delegate of the Government in Pontevedra, Abel LosadaHe criticized the visit of two PP deputies to a Vigo neighborhood because, he said, this presence would have harmed investigations into drug trafficking in the area.
deputy The mixed group asks the interior To explain the true effects of this visit and whether any action was taken when potential obstruction to the anti-drug operation was confirmed.