Surely when the then Minister of Transport José Luis Ábalos began a “particular relationship” with Jessica Rodriguez Garcia He never thought that he would be part of a reasoned statement by the National Court to charge him and withdraw his arrest before the Supreme Court. The judge Ismael Moreno argues in its second reasoning about the alleged crime of bribery of abalos that “it has been possible to extract from the application of the Koldo calendar numerous reservations made by Koldo in the name of “Jesica Rodríguez García”, which would refer to travel reservations for Ábalos, where Jéssica’s presence was also planned. In accordance with the above, a total of 18 flights to different cities in Spain and abroad are counted.
The judge includes the issue of Jessica In section 2 in relation to the alleged crime of bribery, the reasoned statement that “as of March 2019 Aldama assumed the payment of the rent for a home in Madrid that was enjoyed by Jéssica Rodríguez García, a person with whom the then minister had a private relationship.
Jéssica appears in the summary of the Koldo case with the nickname “Spain” and “Jéssica 20 minutes” and the connection between Ábalos and her would date, according to the judge’s statement, “from the year 2018 until well into the year 2022, as inferred from the conversation dated 24 October 2020 (…)».
TRAVEL TOGETHER
«In this framework, several lodgings have been detected together. This fact can also be confirmed by the stay of both in national lodgings and Jéssica’s participation in several international trips by Ábalos during his time as minister, in 2019 and 2020, such as to Abu Dhabi, Moscow or Canada, among others. others, as well as different annotations in Koldo’s calendar, since Koldo’s mobile device Koldoit has been possible to extract from the calendar application numerous flight reservations made by Koldo in the name of “Jésica Rodríguez García”, which would allude to travel reservations to Ábalos, where Jésica’s presence was also scheduled. In light of the above, a total of 16 flights to different cities in Spain and abroad are counted,” according to the same statement.
The judge’s writing also includes the employment relationship of Jessica Rodriguez “with public companies that would be part of the sphere of control of the then Minister Ábalos, Ineco, an engineering company dependent on MITMA, that is, the ministerial department that he headed, and Tragsatec, a public company dependent on SEPI.”
This statement would be reinforced by the fact that on February 23, 2021, «Ábalos informed Koldo of Jéssica’s employment situation, through a screenshot of the conversation he had with her via WhatsApp, as can be seen. of the conversation dated February 23, 2021 with the following participants: Koldo and José Luis Ábalos.
Jéssica’s message to Koldo said: “Hello, on Sunday I finish at Ineco” and “they sent me an email that I have to return the material to the person in charge.” The young woman even shared an image of her contract with Joseba García Izaguirre, Koldo’s brother, “who has been observed reporting her tasks related to that job. In this image, the payroll for the month of March 2020 appears, showing a net net amount of €1,173.67”, the judge’s presentation is collected.
To relocate Jéssica, Koldo García answered Ábalos that “you have to move to another place and then come back, it takes 18 months.” The judicial document continues to explain that “in this sense, among the evidence seized, the contract was found, which was sent by Jéssica to Koldo on June 29, 2021, and it has been observed that it is a temporary employment contract, as 1st administrative officer, from March 2, 2021 to September 1, 2021. Said contract is signed by Jéssica with a public company, in the case of Tragsatec, on March 2, 2021, that is, just days after “Jéssica gave an account of her employment situation to Ábalos.”
And Judge Moreno’s brief continues stating that “once the relationship between Ábalos and Jessica has been explained, it is significant for this case that, simultaneously with the above, Jéssica was residing in the aforementioned home of (…) which was rented by Escolano, partner de Aldama and who was also detained in these Preliminary Proceedings as his alleged front man. It is literally stated in his imputation procedure of the UCO report 35/2024: Escolano would be being used by Aldama to hide his assets through the ownership of companies in national territory and abroad (…)».
88 THOUSAND EUROS IN THREE AND A HALF YEARS
The company Serma Elecom, owned by Escolano, signed a lease contract for Jéssica’s apartment for a monthly amount of 2,700 euros per month. In total, Escolano’s company paid a total of €88,101.43 for this apartment. “The transfers were made between March 15, 2019 and September 21, 2021” by Escolano, his wife and the aforementioned company, but also by Escolano’s wife’s company, by Joseba, Koldo’s brother, and even even for Koldo’s one-year-old baby.
In April 2021, Jéssica requested a message from Koldo García “so that a certain Alberto (Escolano) could pay the rent for the aforementioned property. Koldo then forwarded the message to Aldama, who responded angrily that “it’s a lie, Alberto spoke with them last week and left it resolved, tell whoever sent you this not to touch the balls, that at one time it appeared to him.” the little virgin.
The judge’s report Dark concludes this section by saying that “it is worth noting some messages that Joseba and Koldo exchanged on March 31, 2022 when Jéssica left the aforementioned property. That day, Joseba sent an image to Koldo, which would have been taken by Jéssica and where a panoramic view of the location of the described home appears with a text that says “and colorín colorado this story is over.” Immediately afterwards, Joseba added “what Jessica has put in her WhatsApp status”, making it significant that Koldo answers: “Perfect. “3 and a half years of free housing”, a phrase that alone explains what was stated above.