The PP calls Pardo de Vera to the commission of the Senate of the ‘Koldo Case’ the same day he declares at the National Court | Spain
The Popular Party has proposed that Isabel Pardo de Vera have to do the Senate’s walk the same day that she must parade to declare at the National Court. Adif’s president was charged last Tuesday by Ismael Morenoinstructor magistrate of Koldo case At the National Court, for his alleged participation in the hiring of Jésica R., former couple of the socialist José Luis Ábalos, former Minister of Transportation of the Government of Pedro Sánchez. Thus, Pardo de Vera will have to go next Thursday morning, when cited, to the National Court. And, in the afternoon, at 4:00 p.m., to the Upper House, where he will face the interrogation of the popular. You may not respond in parliamentary headquarters for your status as investigated.
The ex -correspondible of the public railway infrastructure company is charged with two crimes of embezzlement and influence peddling. The Popular Party had already announced last April that Pardo de Vera – who has already appeared before the commission of the Koldo case driven by the PP in the Senate with its absolute majority – would have to return to the upper house. The decision was made after the magistrate of the Supreme Court Leopoldo Puente, in charge of the Ábalos casesubrayed that there were « quite signs » that the former president of Adif « I could have a relevant participation » in the « irregular and capricious » hiring of Jésica R. in the public companies INECO and Tragsatec. Then, the High Court sent its conclusions to the National Court to decide whether it charged Pardo de Vera.
The novelty is the time of the second appearance of Pardo de Vera in the Senate. According to the Agenda of the Upper House, the former responsibility of the Public Railway Infrastructure Company had planned to appear at 10.30 next Thursday. But that day has been required by the National Court. The Popular Party maintains the date but changes the schedule and will make the drink of having to respond to the senators in the afternoon when in the morning he will have to do it before the National Court. The former president of ADIF may not answer the questions, As recently happened with Patricia Uriz, ex -partner of Koldo García. But silence is not an obstacle so that the parliamentarians of PP, Vox or the UPN senator download her fury asks after a question.
« We have quoted it again to clarify the doubts, which are quite a lot, about the irregular hiring of Jéssica Rodríguez and the lack of control over their work hours, » says the spokeswoman for the PP in the Senate, Alicia García, in a statement. « Pardo de Vera has to continue giving explanations and now, in addition to doing so for the second time before the Parliament, a judge is also required. VERA was under suspicion of contracts in public works. Now we add his responsibility in the fraud in the hiring and lack of control » in the hiring of Jésica R., Garcia adds
Before Pardo de Vera, in the commission they will also appear on Monday the former manager of Rural Development and Forest Policy of Tragsatec María Caridad Martín and on Tuesday, the Controller Financial and Personnel of Tragsatec, which supervised the schedule signings of Jésica R., Sergio Bote. Who still is not called to appear in the commission is President Pedro Sánchez, although the Popular Party included it in the list a year ago. While other socialist leaders, Like Ministers Angel Víctor Torres U Oscar Puente have done it several times.
