The PSOE’s federal executive spokesman, Montse Minguez, has framed the accusations made by the former advisor of the Ministry of Transport, Koldo García, to the head of government, Pedro Sánchez, and his entourage in a “defense strategy” at a time when the Supreme Court is waiting to rule this Thursday whether he will go to prison.
This is how she responded when she was asked in an interview on the RNE channel “Las Mornings”, captured by Europa Press, about a statement made by García in an interview with “Okdiario”, confirming that Pedro Sánchez’s father-in-law was going to contribute 100 thousand euros to the primaries in which he was elected General Secretary of the PSOE in 2017.
According to the former advisor, he heard Sanchez say during a meeting that his father-in-law would donate 100,000 euros to his primary election campaign. Asked if this amount had been donated, Garcia confirmed that he heard people saying that “this has already been done, it has already been managed” and that “everything is fine now.”
In light of this statement, the PSOE spokesperson downplayed its significance, recalling García’s procedural situation. “Everyone chooses their own defense strategy,” he added, noting that “everyone knows the situation Mr. Koldu is in,” that “he was part of the Socialist Workers’ Party” and that this action was taken “immediately and forcefully” against him.
Supreme Court Judge Leopoldo Puente summoned former Minister José Luis Abalos and former Counselor Koldo García to appear today to decide whether to send them to prison, at the request of the popular charges led by the People’s Party, in light of the trial that will be held against both of them for alleged irregularities in the mask contracts awarded by the transport company during the pandemic.
He said the same about the perpetrator of the Koldo plot, businessman Víctor de Aldama, who was called to testify on Wednesday in the National Court (AN) where he is being investigated over mask contracts awarded to the alleged pandemic corruption plot by the Canary Islands government headed by the current Minister of Regional Politics and Democratic Memory, Ángel Víctor Torres.
“As for former Minister Angel Víctor Torres, we were threatened about the UCO report that would be devastating and powerful, and would reveal I don’t know how many things. We know the UCO report and nothing of all that happened. He threatened Mr. Aldama several times with a lot of evidence and did not provide anything either,” said Mínguez.
In his opinion, “every person chooses his strategy,” while the Socialist Workers’ Party maintains “full confidence” in its formation and “in the people who make up the Socialist Party.”
He concluded his speech by saying: “Here there are people who try to benefit from below, but the truth is that we are very, very different. Here there is no “Guertel”, here there is no “kitchen”, and here, in any case, what there is is cooperation with justice and not destruction of evidence.”