Claudia MontesFriend of former Transport minister José Luis Ábalos, has not appeared on Tuesday before the Supreme Court, where he was cited as a witness in the Koldo case. Who has come to declare as a witness is César Morenoone of the partners of the alleged achievement of the plot, the businessman Víctor de Aldama. In his statement he has denied knowing the former socialist leader and his exassor Koldo García.
The judge issued a car on April 23 in which he cited the friend of Ábalos to declare as a witness on Tuesday, an appointment that transcended the press, but that, according to legal sources, It would not have been notified to the woman, since, apparently, she would have been evicted from home that consisted of the Supreme. Now the magistrate will have to An order to investigate Montes domicile To be able to send a new summons for another day.
The one that was also Miss Asturias 2017 was cited To clarify its hiring in the public company Logirail, by Renfesince a report of the Central Operating Unit (UCO) pointed out that “it could have been hired irregularly,” allegedly by the “influence” of Ábalos and García.
Allegedly hired by the “influence” of Ábalos
The researchers defend that Montes, who “was part of the personal circle of Ábalos”, was hired in 2019 in Logirail thanks to the “influence” of the then Minister of Transportation, who wrote a message to his exassor asking him if they could hire her in “Renfe, Adif or some of his subcontracts.”
Koldo García replied that he fixed him, for which he sent the woman’s curriculum to the former president of Renfe Isaías Táboas. According to the UCO, The curriculum would be falsifiedsomething that worried Claudia Montes, as can be seen from some intercepted messages between her and Koldo García.
Montes’s statement was going to occur after it appeared on February 27 Jésica Rodríguez, former minister’s girlfriendwhich was also hired in two public companies, INECO and TASATEC, and where He received a salary without even having workedas she herself recognized.
According to the agents, Montes got the work and, like Rodríguez, Nor did he go to the office. And in addition, they point out that Montes also went to Ábalos “in search of a new job” when he was fired, although he was no longer a minister. “Let it stop messed and look for other aids,” Ábalos settled in a message to Koldo.
Before the UCO submitted its report, Montes assured in a statement published in the social network X that “The only personal contact” he had had with Ábalos was “a photograph among companions of the PSOE” and that he had achieved the work in Logirail through the Infojobs portal.
Moreno denies knowing Ábalos Oa Koldo García
Also this Tuesday was cited to declare César Moreno so that would account for “the alleged periodic deliveries of ten thousand euros per month” of Aldamaor people who acted for their order, to Koldo García. According to the UCO reports, Moreno was part of the WhatsApp group of ‘The four musketeers’.
According to legal sources, Moreno He has admitted that he meets Víctor de Aldama, but not Koldo or Ábalosand has not answered more questions, because his lawyer has prevented him from claiming that they were related to the cause that is followed against him at the National Court, although he has said not knowing anything about the delivery of money to Koldo.
And although Moreno has attended the Supreme Court as a witness, he has done so accompanied by his lawyer because at the National Court it appears as investigated, although in his statement last November before the judge of the hearing got out of the plot.
In this procedure, the Prosecutor’s Office defends that ‘the four musketeers’ could have participated in a crime of money laundering.