Judge Juan Carlos Peinado is willing to investigate the back room of the rescue of Air Europa, while the Koldo Lastre case on this matter. The judge who instructs the cause of Begoña Gómez considers that there are indications to pull the thread and clarify if the Injection of 475 million euros public to the Airline of the Hidalgo was influenced by their links with the woman of the President of the Government.
In fact, from the first moment he wanted to investigate the secret meetings that Begoña Gómez and Javier Hidalgo maintained in the summer of 2020, while Moncloa cooked the pharaonic rescue of the airline company of Globalia. However, the Provincial Court of Madrid closed the door – although it endorsed the rest of the investigation – and made it clear that it could not open it unless new indications appear.
These signs have emerged within the framework of the Koldo case. These proceedings, which are still both in the National Court and in the Supreme Court, revealed the links of Javier Hidalgo with the plot and, especially, with Victor of Aldama. This businessman, in fact, was hired by the airline for two years as “consultant.” It is striking that the last transfer he received from the company was just three days after the rescue, within the framework of which Aldama actively participated.
A political decision
The Civil Guard has uncovered countless messages that Aldama and Hidalgo were crossed until finally the Council of Ministers approved the rescue on November 3 of that 2020. In parallel to their conversations, the then Minister of Development, José Luis Ábalos, and his advisor Koldo García, were commenting on the details of the Moncloa negotiations.
The UCO, in fact, suspects that Aldama and Koldo would have noted commissions for their mediation and that they would have paid Ábalos to get the government to publish a press release before summer committing to save the airline. “I tell you, this You get free For the discomfort generated, “Koldo told his then boss, in reference to a holiday village in Marbella in which the then right hand of the president of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, in August.
Precisely this extreme is the only one to investigate in the proceedings followed by the Supreme Court on the activities of Ábalos. As the reason advanced, instructor Leopoldo Puente, closed the door to investigate Moncloa’s performance in the rescue, so he will stick his investigations to An alleged criminal action of Ábalos. The legal sources consulted by this means specified that the rescue was a political decision and that no irregularity of it follows.
“Hidalgo has just called Begoña”
In fact, the instructor itself exposed it at the beginning of the week, when it rejected the request of the popular accusations of requesting the minutes of the rescue from the SEPI, an organ that managed the Fund for the Support for the Solvency of the Strategic Companies. The accusations acted following a new UCO report in which a key message was revealed that would show the relationship of Hidalgo with Begoña.
“It is very fucked by the east theme, life is looking for and He just called Begoña (Gómez)“, Aldama said to Koldo on September 3 of that year, when it seemed that the rescue made waters. The UCO, which has already accredited the links of Gómez and Hidalgo, explained that the businessman” would be valuing to resort to other alternative roads “, as could be to contact the wife of the president of the Government who was going to decide on his rescue.
The high court magistrate values this new indication, but remember that neither Ábalos nor, “of course,” Koldo García had any competence in the aid of the aid. “It is evident that or not to have been granted regularly. However, the existence of any indication that any person agreed before this Supreme Court could have incurred in relation to them in a supposedly criminal conduct, “said Puente.
Thus, the matter is in the hands of hairstyle. The head of the Court of Instruction number 41 of Madrid did echo, on the contrary, of these new indications. In this regard, he presented in a recent report that for him constituted new evidence that they made necessary “Start police investigations” tending to find out if new data appears. Hajinado, who investigates Begoña Gómez for four crimes, also refers to previous UCO reports that collect photographs by Begoña Gómez and Javier Hidalgo together in an act.
Sánchez’s involvement
In this regard, it remains to be seen what the UCO says. The agents have been cautious regarding the links of Gomez and Hidalgo and, for the moment, they have not thrown more light on an alleged influence peddling, although they are waiting for them to deliver a new trade on the matter. Meanwhile, the newspaper El Mundo has revealed a chain of Wasaps exchanged between Pedro Sánchez and his then Minister José Luis Ábalos related precisely to the rescue of Air Europa.
In them the president of the Government transfers to Ábalos that seems convenient to give “a return” to the matter. “In any case It is an operation that we must meditate and see how to focus it“He told his then minister. The relevant thing about this message is not both the content and the date on which he was sent; since it was five days after Hidalgo contacted Begoña, always according to the summary of the Koldo case.
However, these new evidence, although they have a undoubted political significanceThey lack criminal relevance for themselves. In that sense, it is expected to keep the route open to investigate it and clarify whether Begoña Gómez could influence Moncloa to finally rescue the airline.