Overview
- Víctor de Aldama’s defense to the Supreme Court acknowledges criminal organization, passive bribery and misuse of inside information, asking for a further sentence reduction for early, proactive collaboration beyond the seven years sought by prosecutors.
- Aldama details cash deliveries and benefits to José Luis Ábalos and Koldo García, including €10,000 monthly in cash to García from October 2019 to July 2022 and housing payments tied to Ábalos.
- Koldo García’s new defense filing rejects the accusations and Aldama’s account, seeks his acquittal, requests disclosure of any deal with Anticorruption Prosecutor’s Office, and calls as witnesses Salvador Illa, Francina Armengol and Fernando Grande-Marlaska.
- The masks procurement case is slated for a Supreme Court trial in the coming months, with Anticorrupción seeking 24 years for Ábalos, 19½ for Koldo and seven for Aldama; Koldo and Ábalos remain in provisional detention.
- A Madrid judge has cited Santos Cerdán to testify as an investigado on February 5 over alleged false testimony in the Senate’s ‘caso Koldo’ inquiry following a Hazte Oír complaint, while Alberto Núñez Feijóo testified by videoconference in a separate ‘dana’ case and clarified he did not receive “real-time” updates from Carlos Mazón.