Overview
- Judge Ismael Moreno has referred to the Anti‑Corruption Prosecutor a request from former ADIF president Isabel Pardo de Vera to obtain the agency’s final certification for a disputed emergency contract.
- The ADIF document sought by the defence, signed by subdirector Luis Monereo Vaquerizo, records an initial budget of €489,300 and a final payment of €373,405 plus €71,424 in an extraordinary price review.
- Pardo de Vera’s lawyers argue the lower final payment shows no rigging for the Gijón–Pravia slope‑stabilisation job, and they asked the judge to order ADIF to produce the certification for the case file.
- Investigators point to earlier evidence that links intermediaries and companies to the award, including audio from November 18, 2020 in which Koldo García asks Pardo de Vera about emergency work for Levantina and an administrative file signed by Pardo de Vera and Ángel Contreras in December 2020.
- The prosecutor’s forthcoming opinion and the judge’s decision will determine access to the document and may shape how this piece of the broader 'caso Koldo' — which involves 11 suspicious contracts and several firms and figures — proceeds.