The former Minister of Transport and his advisor will spend their first night in the prison center together. In the same cell of the input unit Where they already are.
This is confirmed by sources familiar with the conditions of prisoners.
Supreme Court Judge Leopoldo Puente sent the former secretary of the Socialist Workers Party organization to prison on Thursday. Thus it becomes Ábalos The first deputy goes to prison.
Puente also agreed to the unconditional temporary detention of his assistant, Koldo Garciaestimated in both A “Severe” escape risk. After learning of the high demand for sanctions brought by the accusations.
Imprisonment for up to 30 years on charges of crimes of integration into a criminal organization, influence peddling, embezzlement, bribery, and use of confidential information.
Abalos and Koldo crossed the prison entrance in a Civil Guard truck at 6:09 p.m. This Thursday. Only eight days after departure Santos Cerdanthe former third-in-command of the PSOE, who had been there for five months.
Both have already spent their first hours in prison after completing identification procedures and a clinical review.
During their stay in the admission unit, they were photographed, fingerprinted, and provided with hygiene products and bedding.
During this period, a file containing updated information on their procedural and prison situation will also be opened, and they will have the right to consult it.
They will then be evaluated by a doctor, psychiatrist and jurist. Finally, the social worker and educator will inform you of the center’s rules.
Taking into account that these are preventive and primary prisoners —They go to prison for the first time— Because the crimes they are accused of committing do not have violent connotations, the prison administration plans to transfer them to two different units with inmates with similar characteristics.
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After the first night in prison, it turns out that… The National Court awaits Koldo Garcia on Friday To question him about the alleged plot Canary Islands masks.
Judge Ismael Moreno decided on November 7 to summon Koldo and the alleged contractor Victor de Aldama as soon as he received the report from the Central Operations Unit (UCO) of the Civil Guard analyzing the contracts awarded by the Canary Islands government.
Chaired by the current Minister of Regional Policy and Democratic Memory, Angel Victor Torreswhich since its administration has awarded several public contracts to Soluciones de Gestión, located at the center of the alleged conspiracy.
In that report, investigators stated that Torres demanded payment for the mask plot because of Koldo’s “influence” and that he apologized to the then-chancellor: “I’m on top”“You made the exact hit on the table.”
It was the anti-corruption prosecutor, Luis Pasteur, who asked the National Court to summon Kuldo and Aldama, especially after the UCO indicated in its report that the Canary Islands contracts “would form part of the reason for the monthly compensation of 10,000 euros in cash that Aldama was paying to Koldo“At least since October 2019.”