The State Attorney General, Álvaro Garcóa Ortiz, asked yesterday by letter to the president of the investigative commission created in Congress to investigate contracts during the pandemic to reconsider the decision to call the chief Anti-Corruption prosecutor, Alejandro Luzón, to appear.
According to sources from the Prosecutor’s Office, Anti-Corruption is directly involved in many procedures that are the subject of the commission and that could disrupt the work of the Prosecutor’s Office, which is the exercise of public criminal action.
For these sources, Luzón’s appearance could constitute an inconvenience for the processing of fiscal and judicial investigations of a confidential nature or, even, for the allegations to the right of defense that those affected by such investigations could make.
The attorney general is awaiting a response from the president of the commission.
The congressional commission that will investigate alleged irregularities in health material contracts committed by administrations during the pandemic and that will begin with the so-called Koldo case begins its first appearances on Monday, April 22.
Other members of the Prosecutor’s Office, in addition to Luzón, have been called to testify before this commission: Ignacio de Lucas, from the European Prosecutor’s Office, which has taken on the Koldo case, and Codruta Kovesi, the chief prosecutor of the European Prosecutor’s Office.
In total, 134 people will be summoned, including senior political leaders such as the regional presidents of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso; that of the Junta de Andalucía, Juan Manuel Moreno; that of the Region of Murcia, Fernando López Miras; the president of the Xunta de Galicia, Alfonso Rueda, and the president of the Balearic Islands, Marga Prohens.
Ministers and former ministers will also parade through the Congress commission, such as Salvador Illa, who is also the PSC candidate in the Catalan elections, or the Territorial policy candidate, Ángel Víctor Torres, in addition to José Luis Ábalos and his former advisor to the Ministry of Transport Koldo Garcia.
