The judge of the National Court Ismael Moreno continues to advance in the investigation into the awarding of mask contracts to the so-called Koldo plot. The instructor has ordered Adif and State Ports – which depend on the Ministry of Transport directed by Óscar Puente – and the general subdirectorate of Planning and Management of Infrastructures and Resources of the Secretary of State for Security – dependent on the Ministry of the Interior – to deliver “a copy of the contents of all the corporate email mailboxes and folders of a dozen senior officials. In addition, he demands a copy with all the documentation they have about the contracts under scrutiny.
The periods of the emails that the researchers intend to analyze cover – although the scope varies depending on the case – from January 1, 2020, when society was not yet aware that a virus would cause total confinement, until February 1, 2020. this year, a couple of weeks before the alleged corruption operation exploded, monopolizing the national political fray.
Puertos del Estado and Adif awarded mask contracts in March 2020 for around 20 million euros and 12.5 million, respectively, to Soluciones de Gestión, the front company of the plot, behind which the alleged mastermind, Juan, was hiding. Carlos Cueto. Regarding Adif, he requests the emails of his former boss, Isabel Pardo de Vera; Martín José Navarro, current director of human resources; of Jesús Ángel Díaz, deputy director of occupational risk prevention, and of Michaux Miranda, general director of people management, as stated in a document contained in the summary to which La Vanguardia has had access.
In addition, the judge requests from Puertos del Estado the emails of Francisco Toledo, who was then its president; of Álvaro Sánchez Manzanares, who remains general secretary; of Aránzazu de Miguel, head of the contracting area, and of Belén Caballero, head of the legal department. Investigators are accumulating evidence that the interlocutor of Koldo García, the former advisor of José Luis Ábalos who gives its name to the plot, was Sánchez Manzanares “for several reasons.”
Regarding the Interior, Judge Moreno demands a copy of the emails from Dani Belmar, who was in charge of the subdirectorate to which the request is directed. With the ministry that at that time was already led by Fernando Grade-Marlaska, the alleged corrupt plot signed a contract in April 2020 for a value of 3.5 million.
Belmar, commissioner of the National Police, already explained to the investigators that the companies awarded the contracts arose from a meeting in which a “range of possibilities” was put on the table in the face of “the shortage of medical supplies” that at that time there was.
