Former PSOE Secretary Santos Cerdán will be summoned on December 17 to the Senate Investigative Committee on the “Koldo Affair”, as announced on Monday by the Secretary General of the People’s Party, Miguel Tellado. Victor Abalos, son of José Luis Abalos, and current Secretary of State for Communications and Digital Infrastructure, Antonio Hernando, will also be summoned to the Senate, without dates.
Tellado confirmed that they would question Cerdán about the supposed “blank check” he gave to Abalos, according to an interview his son gave to El Mundo newspaper. Victor Abalos himself must respond to his statements.
As for Hernando, Tellado explained that they will ask him about his role in the alleged work carried out by Lier Diez to obstruct judicial investigations.
“Today we had breakfast with Koldo and pointed out that Begonia Gómez could have received up to one million euros to save Air Europa,” he said, referring to an interview with the former Abalos advisor published by the newspaper OK Diario on Monday. Koldo is that Garcia is in prison, so the interview had to be conducted and agreed upon before he was imprisoned.
Tellado added, “Jose Luis Abalos’ son announces that Sánchez offered Abalos, via Santos Cerdan, a blank check to buy his silence.” “This is how they spend it to prevent him from telling everything he knows, a blank check to search for Omerta,” he added. He concluded that “typical Mafia behavior is all that remains of ‘Sanchismo’ at this moment. It is an unfortunate spectacle that has already led to the imprisonment of three of the four founding fathers of the Mafia.”