Overview
- The Anticorruption chief prosecutor, Alejandro Luzón, filed a written accusation requesting 24 years in prison for former minister José Luis Ábalos and fines of about €3.7 million.
- The filing seeks 19 years and six months for former adviser Koldo García and lists five crimes: influence peddling, bribery, criminal organization, insider information misuse, and embezzlement.
- Prosecutors center the case on multimillion-euro mask contracts awarded to Soluciones de Gestión during the pandemic.
- Intermediary Víctor de Aldama faces seven years in prison after receiving a sentence reduction for confession.
- The case is proceeding before the Supreme Court after the investigating magistrate advanced it to the abbreviated procedure and set a deadline for the prosecution’s brief.