The Civil Guard admits to a miscalculation: Ábalos's land in Colombia cost €750, not €2.1 million.

BarcelonaJosé Luis Ábalos bought a piece of "rustic land" in the Tuluá mountains, Colombia. According to the Central Operative Unit (UCO) of the Civil Guard, the former minister paid 2.1 million euros to acquire it. Ábalos quickly threw his hands up in horror, asserting that the transaction had been very cheap and that the figures could not possibly be correct. This Thursday, the UCO acknowledged that it had misinterpreted the figures: investigators converted the $2.5 million it cost into €2.1 million, but the figures were not US dollars but Colombian pesos. Ábalos actually paid 751.23 euros.

Investigators have submitted a document to the Supreme Court's criminal chamber entitled "Solving an Error," according to the Efe news agency, in which they correct the data they themselves submitted on March 17. "The damage has already been done," lamented Ábalos, who is being investigated by the high court for influence peddling, embezzlement, and bribery.

The current non-attached member of Congress also denounced the fact that the Civil Guard is investigating an operation from 2003, fifteen years before he was appointed minister and seventeen years before the operations for which he is being investigated. "Does the investigation encompass my entire life? Are we or are we not facing a general case and a prospective investigation?" he asked, recalling that he sold the land in 2013 without having built anything.