Second session of Sánchez's investiture plenary session in Congress – Eduardo Parra – Europa Press – Archive
He proposes calling 56 people in the investigation commission, including Illa, Puente, Ábalos, Koldo García or Santos Cerdán
April 8 () –
The PP has proposed in the Senate investigation commission on the so-called 'Koldo case' a wide list of documentation, such as the file of granting aid, credits and public guarantees to Air Europa, “especially those that were part of the rescue of the company”. He also claims the file granted to a joint venture in which the Aragonese businessman Carlos Barrabés participated and which was supported by Begoña Gómez, the wife of the President of the Government.
Among the documentation required by the PP also includes the list of people who were at the Barajas airport on January 20, 2020 “receiving the vice president of Venezuela, Delcy Rodríguez”, as well as a copy of the aircraft flight logbook. assigned to the Presidency of the Government during the years 2019 to 2024, including data related to the “authority that requires the flight”, “people transported”, date or place of the flight.
The PP has made this request for documentation in the Senate investigation commission along with a list of 56 appearing, among whom the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, does not appear “at the moment”, as indicated by the spokesperson for the Popular Group, Alicia Garcia. Nor is the wife of the President of the Government, Begoña Gómez, on that list, who is mentioned several times in her request for information.
Among those appearing proposed by the PP do include the former Minister of Health and PSC candidate in the Catalan elections, Salvador Illa; the Minister of Transportation, Oscar Puente; the Minister of Territorial Policy and former president of the Canary Islands, Ángel Víctor Torres; the president of Congress and former president of the Balearic Islands, Francina Armengol; the former Minister of Transportation, José Luis Ábalos; and the current secretary of the Socialist Organization, Santos Cerdán, among others.
DOCUMENTATION ON THE AIR EUROPA RESCUE
Among the extensive documentation demanded by the PP are the “complete records of the granting of all aid, credits and public guarantees granted to Globalia, Air Europa and Avoris during the years 2020 and 2021, and especially those that were part of the rescue of the company”.
It also claims the complete file of the contract “file number 016/20-ED, awarded on July 30, 2021, for lot 1, to the UTE INNOVA NEXT, SLU (BARRABÉS) AND THE VALLEY, by the DG of the Public Business Entity RED .ES, an entity attached at the time to the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Digital Transformation, for the execution of a 'Training Service for unemployed people in the digital economy, for 4,400,000 VAT included'”.
DOCUMENTATION ON AID TO THE IE AFRICA CENTER
Likewise, the PP requests in the Senate the “complete records of the granting of aid from 2020 to 2023 from public entities to the IE Africa Center”, a center that hired the wife of the President of the Government as director in 2018.
It also claims a list of visits and meetings held by Begoña Gómez “with members of the diplomatic and consular corps, as well as with international organizations, companies or third sector entities from 2019 to date, including visits to countries on the African continent. “.
In addition, it demands “all information from the Complutense University about the Extraordinary Chair of Competitive Social Transformation” of Begoña Gómez and details about “the Master's Degree in Public and Private Fundraising Management in Non-Profit Organizations.”