Overview
- Ex‑manager Mariano Moreno and staffer Celia Rodríguez testified that cash disbursements were collective liquidations for the PSOE Organization team, not personal payments to José Luis Ábalos.
- Koldo García was described as the central collector and distributor of the envelopes, with pickups sometimes handled by his partner or a messenger at the Ferraz headquarters.
- Judge Leopoldo Puente called the procedure “strange” and pressed witnesses on the lack of identification on envelopes, scant verification of receipts, and the role of an external adviser handling party cash.
- The PSOE has filed records showing about €940,000 withdrawn to party cash between 2017 and 2024, including €127,739 for the Organization area, while acknowledging traceability gaps before 2021 for €181,150 in advances.
- The UCO maintains discrepancies between intercepted messages and party records and has floated coded references to cash, as Ábalos’s defense moves to rebut the ‘folios’ theory and seeks documentary checks and evidentiary steps.