Researchers from the Central Operational Unit (UCO) of the Civil Guard They moved to the Region of Murcia to arrest a businessmanResident in Murcia, allegedly linked to the plot of Ábalos’ advisor. The businessman was located and detained at his home and transferred to the offices of the Armed Institute in the Region and is in freedom with charges.
The aim is to clarify whether he allegedly participated in the plot orchestrated by the advisor of the one who was minister with Pedro Sánchez, José Luis Ábalos. The former minister has distanced himself from the network and claims that he knew nothing.
For the purchase of masks
The alleged leader of the alleged organization and former Ábalos’ escort and advisor in the Ministry of Transport, Koldo García Izaguirre, is also free after refusing to testify this Thursday before the judge of the National Court Ismael Moreno who intended to question him about the alleged collection of commissions on the purchase of masks.
The crimes being pursued in the investigation opened by the UCO are bribery, influence peddling, money laundering and criminal organization. Ismael Moreno investigates the alleged bribes that García Aguirre would have received from the company Soluciones de Gestión y Apoyo a Empresas SL during the time he served as an advisor to the Ministry. This firm, which in the midst of the pandemic had a debt with the Treasury of 269,000 euros for the Corporate Tax for the years 2012, 2013 and 2014, received contracts for more than 50 million euros.
A judicial deposit
As for the businessman arrested in Murcia, he is the owner of a judicial warehouse in which confiscated assets are kept to criminals, indicate sources close to the case. Among these belongings there are luxury cars, trucks, motorcycles, counterfeit products and even boats. These are objects that were intervened in different operations at the time, which remain in custody in these Community facilities.
Keeps them until they come out to auctionin a facility of 20,000 square meters located in an industrial estate close to the capital of the Region, where there are assets that, as a whole, add up millions of euros.
A drug incinerator
Sources close to the case pointed out that the connection of this businessman with the ‘Koldo case’ would be in the interest of the former to take charge of a future drug incinerator, which is not yet operational. To start this installation, you would need permits from Administrations that, supposedly, he would try to obtain through his contacts with the Ministry that Ábalos directed at that time.
In the operation, which is still open, around twenty people have been captured and 26 searches have been made in total in MurciaMadrid, León, Basque Country, Valencian Community, Aragon and Extremadura.
He said he was broke
In 2015, this man jumped into the media to report that the Administration owed him seven million euros for his work at the warehouse: specificallythree million from the Junta de Andalucía and four from the Generalitat Valenciana. He said then that it was difficult to keep the business afloat 30,000 euros per month between payrolls, maintenance and security. However, he moved forward.
2024-02-22 11:33:53
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