The Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office rejects as a popular accusation the PP’s request for the expulsion of the Socialist Party from the National Tribunal in which cash payments from the Ferraz headquarters, in Madrid, to former Transport Minister José Luis Ábalos and former councilor Koldo García are being analyzed. The prosecutor specifies that at this moment “there is no obstacle” for the PSOE to act as a prosecution, since the formation is not under investigation.
In a letter dated Wednesday, to which EL PAÍS had access, the prosecutor Luis Mota asks to reject the request of the popular prosecution to join Alberto Núñez Feijóo’s party. “In the PSOE political party there are none of the legal causes of exclusion foreseen by the law, although some management procedures and the justification of cash payments can be investigated,” says the representative of the fight against corruption.
The head of the Central Education Tribunal number 2 of the National Tribunal, Ismael Moreno, opened a separate piece within the The Koldo case to establish where the money contained in Ferraz’s cash came from and whether the necessary controls had been established so that Ábalos and Koldo – prosecuted in the Supreme Court for crimes as a criminal organization – could not launder using the liquidation of the party’s payments. The statements of the former PSOE leader between June 2017 and October 2021, Mariano Moreno, and an Administration employee on October 29 aroused suspicions with the Supreme Court magistrate over the way in which money was controlled within the headquarters. “It doesn’t seem like a very effective control to me,” the judge snapped at Moreno.
The PP, which, like Vox, appeared in the new proceedings to analyze the money used in the Socialists’ headquarters, had indicated that it was “incompatible” for a “suspect” to serve as a popular accusation. “This would contradict the purpose of the figure and could compromise the impartiality and fair conduct of the criminal trial,” he said.
The Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office sees no obstacle for the formation led by Pedro Sánchez to remain a prosecution. “The PSOE does not have the status of a suspect, nor does any person holding a management position within it, therefore, at the moment, there is no obstacle for him to continue to appear in the present proceedings as part of the popular indictment,” explains prosecutor Pastor.
