Overview
- Emails cited by La Razón show the IGAE reimbursed Koldo García between 2018 and 2021 via labeled bank transfers that itemized amounts, dates and purposes, contrasting with PSOE cash-envelope returns.
- The UCO reports that PSOE delivered envelopes totaling €19,638 to José Luis Ábalos and €12,744 to García from 2017 to 2021, with photos of party-branded envelopes and some sums lacking matching party paperwork.
- Investigators highlight messages placing Patricia Uriz, García’s former partner, as a central collector of cash and note entries referencing a dual system — “cuenta a,” “cuenta b,” and “caja b” — for funds not later liquidated, with media reporting she handled up to €95,000.
- After Ábalos and García exercised their right to remain silent before Magistrate Leopoldo Puente, both remain on provisional release as the judge warns of increased flight risk and summons ex-PSOE manager Mariano Moreno Pavón and staffer Celia Rodríguez to testify on October 29.
- El Periódico reports that Santos Cerdán previously acknowledged “elevated” Ábalos invoices as party costs in a 2023 testimony, while a 2018 message from Rodríguez to García detailed split expenses and questioned the source of cash advances.