The PP encourages without evidence the suspicion of a tip-off in the ‘Koldo case’
The PP spokesperson in Congress, Miguel Tellado, has taken advantage of his intervention this Wednesday in the motion to disapprove the Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, for the murder of two civil guards in Barbate (Cádiz) to encourage suspicion without evidence of an alleged tip-off in the call Koldo casein which an alleged case of corruption in the Ministry of Transportation is investigated during the worst of the pandemic.
Tellado, who has called Grande-Marlaska’s management “disastrous” since he assumed the portfolio in 2018, has insisted that, following the death of the two agents after their boat was hit by a drug boat, he had joined in recent days as a reason to request his resignation “the shadow of corruption over his ministry” for the awarding of a contract for the purchase of masks to the plot in which Koldo García, former advisor to former minister José Luis Ábalos, is allegedly involved.
Tellado has demanded that the minister – who at that time was not in the chamber – explain what he and his number two, the Secretary of State for Security, Rafael Pérez, knew about this acquisition of medical supplies investigated by the National Court. “Marlaska has to explain if there has been any tip-off that may have benefited Koldo’s plot,” the popular leader launched before again asking for his resignation or, failing that, his dismissal.
From the part of the summary known so far, there is no reference to any tip-off, although there is reference to the fact that at least part of those investigated knew that those purchases were being scrutinized by the National Fraud Investigation Office (ONIF, dependent on the Ministry of the Treasury), since some of its supposed members, such as businessman Víctor Aldama, had been called to testify before this body.
The disapproval proposed by the PP will be voted on next Thursday with little chance of success, as can be seen from the interventions of the other parliamentary groups in the plenary session this Wednesday. So far, Grande-Marlaska has been failed once in Congress and twice in the Senate, as the PP has been responsible for reminding us, although there are more occasions in which this symbolic measure has not gone ahead.