The recordings of conversations by Koldo García that They have put Pedro Sánchez against the ropes It has a date marked in red on the calendar. On November 18, 2020, in full pandemic, when the supposed plot derived the collection of commissions of infrastructure projects to the awards of sanitary material according to the Central Operating Unit (UCO)the then advisor of José Luis Ábalos had a frantic activity that led him to record no less than twelve hours of conversations in one day.
It is, by long, the longest duration audio of which the Civil Guard has analyzed, for which Koldo decided to register all those audios as “guarantee” before «Eventual disagreements with its interlocutors» (Among those who highlighted the Minister Ábalos and Santos Cerdán, and then Secretary of Territorial Coordination of the PSOE) aware of “the sensitivity of the topics discussed.”
That frantic November 18, the UCO points out in its report, Koldo recorded “for twelve hours all his interactions, including conversations related to the award of public works.”
Some conversations in which, for example, Koldo García warned Ábalos that Santos Cerdán “would be disregarding payments derived from certain awards”. Reference, clarifies the police unit, to which according to the ministerial advisor to José Luis Ábalos, 350,000 euros of the tenders of “San Feliu and the Major” were “owed”.
“I could raise suspicions”
But that day, Koldo also had “for the favor” conversations of the construction company LIC (one of the companies that according to the investigation was benefited by awards and that would have had Koldo himself) with the businessman José Ruz, with the then general director of road The “Koldo Case” by the judge of the National Court Ismael Moreno.
It was Ruz, according to that report, who asked Koldo to include him in the “by-pass of Valencia” specifications, to which he at that ministerial advisor replied that this matter “was already sent and it would be difficult to include him.” But the businessman then clarified that he referred “to introduce him in a UTE” (temporary union of companies that run together to opt for a public award). For the UCO, it is “remarkable” that an advisor to the Minister of Transportation “had the capacity to determine the companies that formed UTE to tender public domain works.”
In the conversation with Pardo de Vera, the advisor of the Minister of Transportation asked the president of Adif – the UCO to highlight – «to be awarded some work to LIC». In particular, Koldo asked “for the possibility that some emergency file was awarded,” to which Pardo de Vera replied that “they had recently given him one and give him another in such a short time he could raise suspicion.” But despite those objections, only one month later Adif awarded LIC an emergency file for 592,053 euros “for the stabilization of the slopes of the trenches” in the railway line Gijón-Pravia, in Asturias.