They accuse PP and Vox of letting “time pass” in the Balearic Islands until the claim to the plot was ineffective
MADRID, 1 Mar. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The PSOE insists on targeting the PP spokesperson in the Congress of Deputies, Miguel Tellado, for the so-called ‘Koldo case’ and confirm that they will call him to testify in the investigation commission that they are going to promote in the Lower House on the purchases of anticovid material during the pandemic.
The socialists are trying to demonstrate that the PP is also involved in this case that is investigating an alleged plot to collect bribes on mask contracts during the coronavirus and that affects several socialist leaders. Last week, the advisor of former minister José Luis Ábalos, Koldo García Izaguirre, was arrested, which has led to the expulsion of his former ‘number three’ from the PSOE.
Also in the PP’s sights are the president of Congress, Francina Armengol, and the minister of Territorial Policy and Democratic Memory, because both bought masks from the company investigated in the plot when they were regional presidents of the Balearic Islands and the Canary Islands, respectively.
However, the PSOE also points towards Genoa and considers that Tellado must give explanations because his name appears in the case summary. According to investigators, Koldo García speaks by phone with the alleged mastermind of the plot, businessman Juan Carlos Cueto, and tells him that he has set an appointment with Tellado to mediate with the PP government in the Balearic Islands. Tellado has denied that it occurred.
The PSOE considers that, from what has been known about the case so far, the corrupt plot was looking for an intermediary to intercede with the Balearic government of the PP “so that the claim against the companies involved that was formulated by the previous government would be forgotten in a drawer “.
The company investigated, Management Solutions, sold masks to the Armengol Government worth 3.6 million euros, but the material that arrived was of worse quality than the contracted one. The Socialist Government did not demand the return of the money until several years later, just before passing the baton to the PP government.
In any case, the PSOE sources consulted defend Armengol’s actions and transfer responsibility to the current Balearic government.
“Despite being warned of the claim by the previous administration, the Balearic government of the PP let time pass until the claim was void. This meant that the money disbursed for a batch of masks that had not been recovered could not be recovered. corresponded to the requested order,” they maintain in Ferraz.
They therefore consider that the government of Marga Prohens (PP) must give “many explanations” and “confirm or deny whether at any time they received orders” from Tellado so that this claim “would sleep the sleep of the just until the deadlines were met.” .
They ask Tellado to clarify why his name appears in the summary, if he has anything to do with the failed claim, if he spoke with the president of the Balearic Islands about the claim and if he knows any of those mentioned in the judge’s order or in the Prosecutor’s complaint. They also want to know if at any time he told the president of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, about any issue related to the claim.
For the PSOE, the “thread” that unites the national leadership of the PP with the Balearic PP is “irrefutable” and they claim that they played a decisive role. “The plot wanted the claim to decline, and the claim declined. They are facts, just as Mr. Tellado’s appearance in the summary is also an irrefutable fact.”
Finally, they accuse the PP of constructing a story in which “every day they add and tarnish names of honest people without any type of judicial support or journalistic investigations” and they disgrace Feijóo for not having admitted questions from the press after “throwing infamies against everything and against everyone.” In his opinion, this “further enhances the fantasy that is being built on Génova Street around a case whose victims are clearly reflected in the judicial documentation.”
