Claudia Montes, known as “Miss Asturias”, provided the Senate with a series of evidence that would corroborate the fact that she maintained a rvery close relationship with former minister José Luis Ábaloscurrently in preventive detention in connection with the Koldo affair. Among the documentation there is an audio file in which a conversation takes place between Montes and Ábalos himself, dated July 4, according to the newspaper. The reason.
During the 18 minutes of conversation, Ábalos criticized the First Vice President of the Government and Minister of Finance, María Jesús Montero, for publicly declaring that Santos Cerdán – then investigating the Koldo case – “was not from the PSOE” and “had nothing to do with it”, in the words of Ábalos, since, again according to the former minister, “Two weeks ago I was there as boss”.
In addition, Ábalos referred to the order of Judge Leopoldo Puente, in which alleged sums of money of approximately one million euros are attributed, which justified Cerdán’s entry into prison. “Even the judge doesn’t believe in this amount of money”» says Ábalos, who assures Montes that “it must be more (money). “It cannot be that someone is corrupted by this shit money, after having given 500 million (in allegedly rigged public works allocations to the Acciona company).
“And it’s true.“If you give 500 million, what less could you ask for than to take, man, 1%, which is already 5 (million)”said the minister in the conversation, according to the aforementioned newspaper. The former organizing secretary of the PSOE also gives as an example the conspiracy of illegal commissions in Catalonia, known as the 3% affair, led by officials of the Democratic Party Covergència de Cataluña (CDC): “If we talk about Catalans, 3%, we are talking about 15 (million).”
Ábalos reiterates that The sums awarded to them by the judge are “ridiculous” and that he “would not be in this position” for this amount. If Santos Cerdán went to prison, Ábalos attributes it to the fact that Koldo called him “boss” and that “he had contacts with companies.” Furthermore, the former minister assures that Cerdán was imprisoned because “they did not carry out the search”, and affirms that he believes “that they did not do it to invoke the risk of destruction of the evidence, and with that they incarcerated him”. Ábalos believes that in this action there was an intention to “soften” Cerdán: “Let the family sink and put pressure on him so that he ends up separating. That’s all.
The hiring of Montes was included in the deal
In this call captured by The reasonÁbalos assures, regarding the supposed “plug” of Claudia Montes in the public company Logirail that “even if they had put him in, it’s good, for a crappy contract of 1,300 euros”. The former minister complains that this alleged irregular hiring has been revealed.
Montes held an interim position at Logirail, a public transport company, between 2019 and 2022. Judge Leopoldo Puente has already ruled his hiring irregular and this was recorded in the case as an offense of influence peddling.
Montes asks the Senate commission to which he provided this documentation to provide a document to the Central Operational Unit (UCO) of the Civil Guard so that “the conversations” he had with Ábalos can be reported. Montes claims in his writings that he no longer has these conversations in his possession “because my iPhone suffered an attack that led to the deletion of the conversations.”
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