The trial for the mask plot resumed this Thursday in the Supreme Court with the statement of Koldo García. The prosecutor has asked José Luis Ábalos’ former advisor about the payments of 10,000 euros per month in cash that he and Ábalos would have received from Aldama at least between November 2019 and September 2022, according to Anticorruption. García has denied having received these payments of 10,000 euros per month. In addition, he has also denied the gifts that the businessman mentioned this Wednesday: a car, a motorcycle and fertility treatment. García has admitted having transferred the offer to purchase medical supplies from Management Solutions, linked to businessman Víctor de Aldama, to the Ministry of Transport. However, García has denied having had the power to award the purchase of eight million masks to said company. Furthermore, the former advisor has assured that Jésica Rodríguez, Ábalos’ ex-partner, blackmailed him by publishing “personal things.” “This young lady put a lot of pressure that her problems had to be solved because, if not, public opinion would be aware of certain personal, non-illegal things,” he explained. García also helped Rodríguez find the apartment in the Plaza de España where he lived for rent paid by an Aldama partner and who passed on his resume to work for the public company Ineco, dependent on the Ministry of Transport.
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