The Civil Guard finds documents related to Aldama in Pardo de Vera's house.

MadridThe Civil Guard is making progress in its investigation into the Koldo case and, specifically, in the evidence against the president of Adif, Isabel Pardo de Vera, and the former director general of Highways, Javier Herrero, who are being investigated in the National Court and summoned to testify on July 21Specifically, according to Europa Press yesterday, during the search of Pardo de Vera's home, they found documentation related to contracts for 5 million masks with the company Soluciones de Gestión, the contracting firm for medical supplies for which Víctor de Aldama worked as a commission agent. The National Court, Ismael Moreno, charged Pardo de Vera with up to five crimes: criminal organization, malfeasance, bribery, embezzlement, and influence peddling. He also allegedly received illegal commissions in exchange for public works.

During these searches, the Civil Guard also found up to €4,750 in cash at the former CEO's home and also seized several mobile devices and his company's email accounts. These irregularities occurred.

Both Pardo de Vera and Herrero appear in the conversations recorded by Koldo García, which are the basis for the accusation against former minister José Luis Ábalos and also Santos Cerdán. According to the Civil Guard's thesis, Pardo de Vera and Herrero are ministry officials necessary for the alleged commission of irregularities in the awarding of contracts. The one who denied any involvement in the Koldo case on Tuesday was the Speaker of Congress and former President of the Balearic Islands, Francina Armengol. Although she initially said she had not met with Aldama, she did admit that she met with her at a meeting with the CEO of Air Europa.

Cerdán will receive the compensation.

The PP's attempt to prevent Santos Cerdán from collecting severance pay for ceasing to be a member of Congress has been unsuccessful. The former Socialist party's number three will receive the 19,400 euros gross he is entitled to for the six years he served as a member of parliament. The Congressional board, in a meeting this Tuesday, concluded that it cannot veto the payment after studying a report from the Lower House's lawyers, which warns that he cannot be deprived of this "right," even though he is under investigation for corruption in the Supreme Court and has been imprisoned without bail.

"The current regulations define the receipt of severance pay as a right of the former parliamentarian, not as a gratuity," say the Congress's legal services. The document, to which ARA has had access, concludes that Cerdán meets the requirements demanded by parliamentary regulations and that, therefore, "not being in any of the exclusionary situations included, the right to receive it is automatically generated, without any possibility of depriving the beneficiary of the compensation."

Cerdán requested to collect the compensation on June 20, ten days before testifying before the Supreme Court in the case of alleged illegal commissions in public works contracts. One of the PP's arguments for putting obstacles in the way of collecting the compensation is that Cerdán had violated the regulations regarding incompatibilities and declarations of activities and assets of deputies because he failed to declare that he had owned 45% of the Navarrese construction company Servinabar since 2016, now under scrutiny by the Supreme Court. This is what a report from the Central Operational Unit (UCO) of the Civil Guard states after the discovery of a document that includes it, but both Cerdán and the company have denied this.