This was reported to the newspaper EL ESPAÑOL by sources close to both individuals investigated, after this newspaper published that within the PSOE they believe that Ábalos and Koldo could Send fake tickets to collect more money With regard to the representation expenses charged to the party.
“I have never used my position as secretary of the PSOE for illegal actions, let alone money laundering,” the former minister said on the social network
He added: “And if these sources believe so, then the responsibility of the organization and society is to provide all documents on the number of expenses and payments made to each member of the party leadership from 2017 to 2025, without exception.”
He concluded his tweet by saying: “This is the case with all of my predecessors’ expenses in the past 20 years. This way we will all remove doubts.” Koldo Garcia, who was his main advisor at the Ministry of Transport, supports this position.
PP who practices popular accusation in the so-called Abalos casehad already asked the Supreme Court to order the Socialist Workers’ Party to submit all these statements, as soon as it became known that the Party had paid in cash, through envelopes, the expenses of Koldo and Abalos.
Judge Leopoldo Puente denied this request on October 24. However, Abalos insisted on Monday that it was important for the PSOE to reveal all this data.
The former minister and his right-hand man also confirms this They got “advancement” without motivation And that they justified the expenses to administer the PSOE, although Ferraz later did not include them in the settlement papers submitted to the Court of Accounts.
According to both Koldo and Abalos, the Civil Guard did not take into account in its reports all the cash paid by the PSOE, because the party had inconsistencies in its statement.
In fact, they both assert that the SWP incurred more expenses than those recorded in the Court of Accounts.
In an interview with EL ESPAÑOL, Koldo stated that he received more money from the PSOE than was included in the Civil Guard report. “Part with big bills because no one wants them,” he said.
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On November 6, National Court Judge Ismael Moreno was in charge of the call Koldo caseAnd opened an investigation Potential irregularities in PSOE financing.
Abalos – In a day Today’s deputy— He was organizing secretary of the Socialist Workers’ Party until 2021, and during that period, he, like Koldo, received cash payments from the Socialist Workers’ Party.
Both are being investigated in the Supreme Court for allegedly collecting illegal kickbacks in exchange for contract manipulation.
It was Judge Puente who sent all the documents related to the payment in envelopes to the former minister and his assistant at the National Court.
This judge has already highlighted Current lack of control over PSOE accountsThis is due to the method followed by the party in paying compensation for expenses paid in advance by its leaders and employees.
This system does not allow us to avoid “not laundering their assets by compensating them for the aforementioned expenses,” Puente stressed.
Albalos and Koldo deny laundering money through the party. But at the moment, the list of outputs and income from the PSOE Fund is not yet fully known.
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