US EditionGraft trial of Spanish PM's ex-top aide begins
Prosecutors seek 24 years for Ábalos, saying he and an aide pocketed kickbacks from pandemic-era public contracts.
- The Supreme Court in Madrid begins the corruption trial of former transport minister Jose Luis Abalos and former adviser Koldo Garcia on Tuesday, April 7, regarding alleged kickbacks for Covid-19 sanitary contracts.
- Prosecutors seek a 24-year jail term for Abalos, portraying him as the mastermind of an illicit scheme, and a 19-year term for Garcia, alleging both abused government positions to favor businessman Victor de Aldama.
- More than 75 witnesses and about 20 experts are set to testify during proceedings running through April, as the case represents one of several corruption affairs rattling the fragile coalition.
- Opposition parties, the Popular Party and Vox, have called for Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez's resignation, citing systemic corruption that has embarrassed the leader after his successor, Santos Cerdan, was forced out.
- Separate corruption investigations into the Prime Minister's wife, Begona Gomez, and his brother, David, remain ongoing, piling further pressure on the administration, one of few leftist governments in Europe.
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The trial for corruption of José Luis Ábalos, former Spanish Minister of Transport, former heavyweight of the Socialist Party and key figure of the rise of Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, opened on Tuesday, a...
Federico analyzes the beginning of the first trial of Ábalos. The so-called ‘Koldo case’ begins in the TS by the plot of the masks.
The corruption of the PP and the PSOE is going to splash politics this week. Both parties are going to give themselves with fruition to the “and you more” on account of two trials. The first begins tomorrow in the Supreme Court. They sit on the bench the number two Pedro Sánchez in the party, José Luis Ábalos, and the man for everything from the former minister, Koldo García. They are accused of a corruption of manual, without any sophistication…
Koldo García has revealed that Antonio Hernando, current Secretary of State for Telecommunications in the Ministry of Digital Transformation and Public Service, led by Óscar López, asked him personally to receive two construction companies to manage projects in the Ministry of Transport when he was an advisor to Ábalos and Hernando headed the public affairs consultant Acento (2019-2021). According to Koldo, Hernando got works for at least one of…
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