Overview

• Valeri Cuellar alleges she was hired three times—twice in Madrid and once in Valencia—by a clandestine agency for private parties attended by José Luis Ábalos and Koldo García where phones were seized upon arrival.
• José Luis Ábalos called the accusations “demencial” and “mentira,” asserting he had never met Cuellar.
• Ábalos announced he will sue both Cuellar and Lecturas for defamation, condemning the interview as a “repugnante fake news.”
• The dispute unfolds within the broader 'caso Koldo' probe, in which Ábalos faces charges of criminal organization, bribery, influence peddling and embezzlement.
• PSOE LGTBI secretary Daniela Requena criticized Ábalos’s use of masculine pronouns for Cuellar and warned that his language could constitute a hate crime.