Koldo García appears in the Senate as the latest icon of corruption

The arrest two months ago of Koldo García provided the political opposition and the media with all the ingredients to turn the former advisor of José Luis Ábalos into the latest icon of corruption. García is accused of several crimes in the National Court, all of them related to the purchase of masks by the central Administration during the pandemic. It will be this Monday when, for the first time, citizens will be able to witness how he faces the two main questions raised by the Delorme operation: did he get rich with public money from the masks? Is his former boss involved in the plot?

The format in which his appearance will take place casts many doubts on the possibility of him answering these types of questions. It is likely that the idea that this is a person in the wrong place, the same one that he projected when he was an advisor to the Ministry of Transportation, will return when he sees him sitting before the senators. García, like the rest of those summoned to the commission, is obliged to appear but not to answer the questions. And here he is assisted by the recurring argument of others investigated by Justice in previous commissions, who have not opened their mouths on the advice of his lawyer. If he did not testify before the judge on whom his immediate future depends, why would he do so before the parliamentarians.