Overview
- Testifying before the Senate’s ‘caso Koldo’ commission, Montes alleged workplace and sexual harassment by former adviser Koldo García, saying he made up to 21 WhatsApp video calls to see her in underwear.
- She stated she worked at Logirail from late 2019 to February 2022, beginning on luxury tourist trains before becoming a supervisor, and said she took medical leave citing harassment.
- Montes recounted meeting José Luis Ábalos at a 2019 PSOE rally in Gijón and seeking work, while insisting she was unaware of any irregularity in how she was hired.
- She acknowledged receiving €1,300 for two months’ rent in 2019 via a transfer made by García on Ábalos’s behalf.
- An order by Supreme Court magistrate Leopoldo Puente asserts that Ábalos and García promoted her arbitrary hiring at the public firm Logirail, a claim Ábalos denies as he pursues a conciliation action against Montes for alleged defamation.