Overview
- He told senators he was in shock at the UCO report and said the Cerdán it describes does not match the colleague he knew.
- He insisted he never received cash envelopes and said his party expenses were reimbursed by bank transfer against receipts.
- He confirmed a single April 2024 meeting at Ferraz with Leire Díez about a purported Villarejo audio and said no work was commissioned from her.
- He said he did not know Víctor de Aldama or Joseba Antxon Alonso, described only brief encounters with Koldo García at Congress, and said he never saw Cerdán living beyond his means.
- He defended the PSOE’s financing as legal as PP senators pressed him over his Pamplona apartment and alleged envelope payments, while Cerdán remains prosecuted and the Senate inquiry continues.