In detail | Pardo de Vera points out Koldo García
The former president of Adif Isabel Pardo de Vera has cleared up the mystery surrounding her statement as a witness in the mask trial and, despite being charged in the National Court, she has chosen to speak. He has done it to leave the former Minister of Transport José Luis Ábalos in the background and take the blame against his former right-hand man, Koldo García.
Pardo de Vera has said that the purchase order and the quantity were given to him by the ministerial order signed by Ábalos and that Adif did its own investigations to find the supplier. However, he has acknowledged that García sent him a message with the contact of the general secretary of State Ports, because a week before he had already made a similar purchase, and the administrator of Management Solutions, the company represented by the alleged purchaser, Víctor de Aldama. According to her, she passed it on to her team “as another offer,” “in case it was of any use.”
He also heard about Jésica Rodríguez, Ábalos’s ex-partner, through García. He told him that “José” would “cut his balls” if they did not place the girl. Pardo de Vera has maintained that he limited himself to passing his CV to the president of Ineco but, without pressure, in case it fit for something, and from then on he ignored it. If he made this move it was, he said, out of “institutional respect” for the minister. When he found out that they were a couple, he called him and told him that “it couldn’t be.” Apparently, Ábalos understood: “What you do will be fine.”
Regarding the minister, Pardo de Vera has expressed his maximum “respect”, detailing that they had a “relationship of trust”, so much so that he told him that it was ugly that Aldama was so much for the Ministry. He didn’t see him again. With García he has not been so lenient. In his opinion, he was not up to the task. Her language, her manners and her modus operandi were not appropriate or at least what she, an “institutional person”, was used to: “She did not meet institutional standards.
