Mobile phone Koldo Garcia The Central Operations Unit of the Civil Guard (UCO) seized contains messages confirming a meeting Pedro Sanchez with Arnaldo Otegi In a small village in the Basque Country near Bilbao Airport.
sources Koldo case They confirm to this newspaper that the advisor’s apparatus Jose Luis Abalos It contains evidence of that meeting held in 2018, in which the current head of government asked the Beldo leader for support to win the motion of censure against Mariano Rajoy.
This device was seized by the UCO during the arrest of Koldo García on February 20, 2024 at his home in Benidorm (Alicante).
Although he asked the judge on numerous occasions to give him a copy of the contents of his electronic devices so that he could defend himself, the judge has not agreed so far.
Koldo Garcia had conversations via WhatsApp with José Luis Abalos, Santos Cerdan And the builder Anxon Alonso About the meetings with Otegi and Beldo in May 2018.
Furthermore, in his phone book, which was found by UCO and to which EL ESPAÑOL had access, four contacts linked to Bildu appear.
The former Chancellor Abalos’s apparatus also contains talks about the PSOE’s negotiations with the PNV and other political groups in a Madrid hotel located next to the Manzanares River.
Koldo Garcia acted as driver and companion for Sanchez and Cerdan in the meeting with Otegui.
He also performed the same duties for the incumbent head of government and Abalos in the above-mentioned hotel which served as the center of operations for the censure motion against Rajoy.
The same sources in the case confirmed to EL ESPAÑOL that “Coldo’s cell phone contains very politically compromising information for Sánchez,” beyond messages and conversations related to the agreements reached by the PSOE.
he Hamlet’s charter The relationship between PSOE and Bildu was made possible thanks to the meeting between Sánchez and Otegi organized by Antxón Alonso, Cerdan’s partner since 2016 in Servinabar, according to the contract found by UCO during the inspection of the builder’s house.
On Monday, Sanchez denied the information published by El Espanyol newspaper about the meeting with Otegui, and the head of government said in Luanda, where he is attending the African Union-European Union summit: “This is a lie.”
For his part, the minister said: Oscar Lopez He also denied the existence of the meeting with Otegui, telling Susanna Grisso: “This is how the hoax cycle works.” General mirror.
Otegi followed the line set by the PSOE and said: “If anyone proves that this meeting took place, I commit to the Basque people to tender my resignation.”
Koldo confirms the meeting
However, Koldo García confirmed on Monday that he had led Sanchez to meet Otegui after the government and Beldo leader himself denied this.
“What EL ESPAÑOL published is true, and I cannot deny it under any circumstances,” Koldo Garcia said.
Sources familiar with the meeting between the leaders of the Socialist Workers Party and Bildó confirmed to this newspaper that Koldo Garcia picked up Sanchez and Cerdan at Bilbao Airport in a white Toyota RAV4 owned by Ferraz.
After that, Koldo drove for about half an hour to take Sanchez and Cerdan to a small village where Otegui was waiting for him with the people he trusted the most.
Otegui, in an interview on ETB2, on Monday described Koldo García as a “collaborator of the Civil Guard” and challenged him to say “in which village and on what dates and times were you with Sánchez and Cerdán.”
This newspaper exclusively reported that the Beldo leader sealed it Hamlet’s charter With Pedro Sanchez in two new secret meetings with Santos Cerdán and his partner Antson Alonso, a construction worker who was investigated in a case Koldo case.
According to sources familiar with the negotiations told EL ESPAÑOL, the Beldo leader has finalized the details to support the censure motion against Mariano Rajoy with the PSOE regional coordinator and majority partner in Cervinábar.
Therefore, businessman Antxon Alonso acted as a mediator in the negotiations and actively participated in the talks between the PSOE and Beldo in May 2018.
Beldo’s support for Sanchez’s censure motion was key for the Philippine National Party to change its abstention to yes, after a meeting at the hotel next door to the Manzanares and a call from Pedro Sanchez to Andoni OrtuzarAt that time, the head of the national formation.