Overview
- Police from the Guardia Civil’s UCO carried out simultaneous searches, information requests and at least one arrest on Thursday as part of a new operation linked to the case Koldo.
- Judge Ismael Moreno opened a secret separate judicial piece on Tuesday after receiving a report from the UCO, and the Fiscalía Anticorrupción is coordinating the investigation.
- The operation included a search of José Luis Ábalos’s home in Valencia and the questioning of his partner at the scene while other actions took place in Córdoba, Madrid and Seville.
- UCO analysts say newly examined electronic devices seized earlier from Ábalos, Koldo García and Santos Cerdán revealed additional people of interest and prompted the expanded probe; one detainee is Cristian Abel Corvillo.
- The move extends a long-running inquiry that already produced Supreme Court convictions for pandemic-era kickbacks and now targets public bodies and contractors such as ADIF, with more document requests and legal actions expected.