The former president of Adif decides to collaborate with justice and points to the PSOE: "They asked me to place like-minded people"

BarcelonaFormer Adif president Isabel Pardo de Vera, indicted at the National Court in the framework of the Ábalos case, shows herself willing to collaborate with the justice system and fires against the PSOE. In an interview with El Mundo, published in the middle of the general election pre-campaign, the also former Secretary of State for Transport states that former minister José Luis Ábalos and other officials of the Spanish government had proposed "like-minded people" to "place in positions of the Adif executive leadership". "Up to almost 20 resumes", she asserts, and adds that she "always" refused because the candidates did not meet the necessary "qualifications".

Pardo de Vera launches the accusation without naming names or providing evidence or details, but ensures she is willing to share the information with the Public Prosecutor's Office and the justice system. "If it contributes anything to the case, of course", she states. Who she does point to directly is former socialist ministers José Bono and José Blanco, of whom she says they had called her "several times to show interest in various companies" and that they told her that "some companies were suffering" or that "they were not being treated well".

The indictment of the former Adif president at the National Court is twofold. On one hand, for the alleged irregular public works awards of the Ministry of Transport; on the other, for the public hiring of Jéssica Rodríguez, Ábalos's ex-partner. Regarding the first case, Pardo de Vera denies having participated in any award and asserts that at Adif they were in charge "of trying to dismantle any risk of corruption". And in relation to the Jéssica Rodríguez case, she says she limited herself to forwarding her resume to the president of Ineco because Koldo García had asked her on behalf of Ábalos.

Throughout the interview, the former Secretary of State asserts that, apart from the commission agent Víctor de Aldama, there were "more businessmen" who moved freely around the Ministry of Transport and again offers to give their names to the justice system. "I know there are other people who have asked about companies and who could be commission agents, as well as other companies that may have paid commissions", she says.