Víctor Ábalos: “I neither speak in code nor have I had an encrypted phone”
Víctor Manuel Ábalos, eldest son of former minister José Manuel Ábalos, has defended in his statement that he did not participate in the plot of the Koldo case nor did he communicate in code with its members. Asked by the popular accusation about the intercepted communications between him and Koldo, where he urged him through the code concept “coffee” to speak by another means, Ábalos’s son settled: “I neither speak in code nor have I had an encrypted device.”
“In the proceedings, in a UCO report, at a certain point, Don Koldo García Izaguirre, presents to you the need for a certain conversation to be held through a secret system other than the telephone. He tells you ‘coffee, please’, which is a terminology used in the plot to refer to secure methods. Did you have an encrypted device to speak with Koldo García Izaguirre?”, the lawyer asked.
“No, I neither speak in code nor have I had an encrypted phone, as you say, nor come on, when you refer to coffee, it is coffee originally from Colombia, that is, from my trips to Colombia, Koldo and other people ordered me coffee like other things, and it simply refers to that.”
