"I need bracelets for the whore": Ábalos and Koldo's messages about gifts for women

Madrid"I need bracelets for the whore," reads a message Koldo García sent to his wife, Patricia Úriz, in February 2021. And she responded: "But for the 1st, right?" "Yes," replied the former advisor to former Transport Minister José Luis Ábalos. It's one of many. WhatsApp –to which ARA has had access– that reveal how Koldo García was in charge of managing the former minister's private life, whether by giving gifts to prostitutes or paying the mortgage or child support. In the last few hours, the Civil Guard has provided the Supreme Court with the annexes to the report that was released last Friday and revealed how the PSOE paid cash to Ábalos and Koldo, and pointed to an embezzlement of 95,000 euros.

"Enter SPAIN 600," says Ábalos in Koldo in November 2019. "In the order", he answers. "Deposit the 400 for Carlos in cash because he had to make the tuition payment today," the former minister tells his former advisor a month later. In February 2020, a similar scene: "Hello, sorry to bother you, you have already entered everything related to the child, but a question:" the 200. In April 2020, he sends him photographs of bouquets of flowers, understood to be to send to someone, and Ábalos chooses: "The first ones." gold or pink."

Dozens of excerpts from conversations support the thesis of the Central Operative Unit (UCO) of the Civil Guard that there was a "reserve of cash at [Ábalos's] disposal" that Koldo and his ex-wife managed for him. were managed in an A accounting and others in a B. It notes 1,800. Boss "b," the former advisor tells Patricia Úriz in January 2021. "Aim for 800, boss, in account a", sends it another day, February 1, 2021.

The scope of the Court of Auditors

The Supreme Court has summoned Ábalos and Koldo García to testify next week to explain these practices, which the UCO considers suspicious. For the moment, the investigating judge, Leopoldo Puente, is not speculating about possible irregular financing of the PSOE through illegal public works commissions, although the PP has already supported this theory. Specifically, this afternoon, the president of the Court of Accounts, Enriqueta Chicano, appeared before the Senate's commission of inquiry into the Koldo case. "The UCO must have found some payments that the Court of Accounts has not disclosed," she explained during a forceful cross-examination by a PP senator. Be that as it may, she made it clear that the oversight body "does not detect black funds" from parties because, naturally, the parties would not declare them.