The telephone tap that splashes the PP in the ‘Koldo case’: “She is from Pablo Casado’s line, okay? But it’s already done” | Spain

A report from the Civil Guard on January 4 reproduces the telephone conversation that affects the PP and, specifically, its parliamentary spokesperson, Miguel Tellado, in the Koldo case, in which an alleged corruption plot is investigated in the purchase of medical supplies at the worst moment of the pandemic. The police document includes the dialogue, intervened by court order, that two of the main people involved in the plot had on December 2, Koldo García, former advisor to the socialist Minister of Transport José Luis Ábalos, and the businessman Juan Carlos Cueto, when Both already knew a few days before that there was a police investigation into the plot.

In the conversation, the first claims to have received a call moments before to meet with Tellado the next day to talk about the claim of three million euros that the Balearic Government had initiated against the company Soluciones de Gestión, commercial epicenter of the scandal, for the poor quality of the masks supplied. Koldo García affirms that in that alleged conversation he had told his interlocutor “what they had to do,” and adds: “She [supuestamente en referencia a la presidenta balear, la popular Marga Prohens] It’s from Pablo Casado’s line, okay? But it’s already done.” Tellado “flatly” denied on Thursday having held any meeting with Koldo García or having received a call to do so. “I have never met with any member of the plot,” he stated.

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The Civil Guard considers that this dialogue and other interventions “reaffirm the influence that Koldo would be exerting” so that the millionaire claim of the Balearic Government “did not prosper” and, therefore, favor the plot. For this reason, they detail in the document that the conversation occurred after Cueto had called Ábalos’ former advisor insistently the day before without success. Finally, he gets it on December 2 at 9:35. The police document literally reproduces the part of the dialogue that it considers of interest to the investigations.

Koldo García: I saw the calls on the other last night when I got home.

Juan Carlos Cueto: (nods).

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K. G.: But he didn’t have it on him. So.

J. C. C.: Vale.

K. G.: I apologize.

J. C. C.: (nods).

K. G.: We’ll see. They just called me, okay?

J. C. C.: (nods).

K. G.: Because I wanted to make sure of things. We’re meeting Miguel tomorrow, okay? With Miguel Tellado.

J. C. C.: (nods).

K. G.: He has already said what they had to do, talking to him. She is from Pablo Casado’s line, okay? But it’s already done. I mean, let’s wait for her to tell me when she has to see you. I know they have time to respond. The message is given, okay?

J. C. C.: (nods).

K. G.: In other words, if he’s going to see you, it’s simply to complement him or because, well, to look good or to look good to us who are asking him for the meeting through Alberto and Miguel, okay?

J. C. C.: (nods).

K. G.: But the message is given, okay? Hey, this needs to be softened. This can’t end in… an open war, okay? And well, we know that there is no route that benefits the community, okay?

J. C. C.: (nods)

K. G.: To the autonomous community. So what is it? Just show? Can we leave it out? In other words, that has already been transmitted. And they have told me that it is on a very good path, okay?

J. C. C.: Vale.

K. G.: So… right now I’ve just been talking because since seven in the morning because I’m going to Chile tomorrow.

J. C. C.: (nods).

K. G.: So before I go to Chile I’m going to have coffee with them and so on and they’re going to tell me the date they receive you. But he already told me [que] he says “man, I think this is not going to happen from here” he is going to stay. It is true that they wanted to open a front because pa look good and how beautiful and how well we do it that every time we see something bad that the reds have done, we take it out and we go after them to the death, right?

J. C. C.: (nods).

K. G.: But hey, in this case if you can stay in third parties (phonetic) then that’s it.

J. C. C.: Vale.

K. G.: Although it is true that ours initiated the procedure. Now that’s true.

J. C. C.: But the thing is, it’s a shitty procedure.

K. G.: But if… well, I mentioned it, okay?

J. C. C.: (nods).

K. G.: I have discussed it with… with the former ministry [sic] where I worked before. I say hey, this? He tells me, man, this, path, the same thing you said, legal path has none. That is, none but none.

J. C. C.: Of.

K. G.: And this I’m talking about state lawyers.

J. C. C.: OK. Perfect, then tomorrow you leave, when are you coming back?

K. G.: I’ll be back on Thursday. Tomorrow I leave in the afternoon, at 9.

J. C. C.: Vale. […]

The authors of the Civil Guard report conclude: “From the analysis of this conversation it can be deduced that Koldo informs him that they have just called him and that they have arranged to meet (it is understood that Koldo is with more people whom he does not identify) with Miguel Tellado, who would have already said that they have already spoken with the Administration of the Balearic Islands, their contact being ‘from the line of Pablo Casado’. Koldo affirms that ‘the message has been given’ and that the meeting has been requested through Miguel (it is understood that Miguel Tellado) and Alberto (he does not specify).” The police document adds that, apparently, the next day, that is, December 3, Koldo García supposedly “is going to have coffee with ‘them’, it is understood that with Miguel Tellado and Alberto, who are going to tell him “The date on which they receive them, it follows that Cueto and legal representatives of Management Solutions,” explains the Civil Guard.

At this point, the agents point out that the “Tellado referred to by Ábalos’s former advisor is Miguel Tellado Filgueira, current deputy for A Coruña for the Popular Party.” The police document continues analyzing the content of the conversation and, specifically, Koldo García’s reference to the “former ministry” in which he had worked and the queries he had made there to find out if the claim that the Government of the Balearic Islands is doing because of the poor quality of the masks can prosper.

The Civil Guard highlights that two days after this conversation, on December 4, Cueto telephoned another of the alleged people involved in the plot, also businessman Íñigo Rotaechea, representative of Management Solutions, to tell him about his conversation with Koldo García in which he had informed him that in the short term they would confirm a date for a supposed meeting of both with a representative of the Government of the Balearic Islands. Cueto emphasizes to his interlocutor that the former advisor has also assured him that “the Balearic Administration has no intention of continuing with the claim.”

Faced with Rotaechea’s skepticism, Cueto affirms: […] “Íñigo, listen to me, don’t think what you think… I told you that in principle this was a favor that your neighbor was asking for… him and his former boss [supuestamente Ábalos]…and it seems that the other has said yes… because they have given him another favor in return.” The authors of the police document add regarding the alleged participation of the former Minister of Transport, that it was not the first time that he “has been aware of an issue related to the investigated contracts.”

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