The defense of Koldo García, the former ministerial advisor prosecuted by the Supreme Court in the Mascarillas case, appealed the decision by which Judge Leopoldo Puente sent him to prison without bail along with former minister José Luis Ábalos. Indicates this is happening … a lack of evidence against him and that There is no risk of flight due to “strong family roots” which he owns in Benidorm (Alicante) where his 7-year-old daughter and her mother also live, “an 86-year-old widow who is disabled and needs basic care to be able to function on a daily basis”.
In the appeal, the content of which ABC had access to, the defense regrets that his entry into prison is based on evidence “without conclusive support” and specifies that this alleged “huge sum of unfound money”, and of which the magistrate accuses him, is not accepted. Thus, he understands that the prison measure is disproportionate.
It’s also ugly that they aren’t mentioned in the car. “the 127,000 euros reimbursement of expenses of the PSOE Organizing Secretariat» which were corroborated by “two separate witnesses” and this would therefore mean that these sums had “a legal origin”.
And he also regrets the weight that the statements of the co-defendant Víctor de Aldama – the alleged mastermind of the conspiracy – had in accepting his entry into prison. Recall that Aldama claimed to have given 10,000 euros per month to Koldo García, but specifies that these assertions were made “without any patrimonial corroborationnor any other evidence beyond his simple statement.
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