The Supreme Court will decide on November 27 whether to allow José Luis Ábalos and Koldo García to remain temporarily free. Magistrate Leopoldo Puente has set a hearing for that day to examine the precautionary measures currently weighing on the former Minister of Transport and his former advisor, for whom the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office is asking for 24 and 19 and a half years of imprisonment respectively, for the alleged corruption plot centered on the purchase of masks during the pandemic.
Precautionary measures have been imposed on Ábalos and Koldo for months: biweekly appearances before a judge, withdrawal of their passports, ban on leaving Spain. Magistrate Leopoldo Puente, professor of the case opened by alleged contract rigging around the Ministry of Transport during the Ábalos era, has so far rejected requests made by popular accusers to send the former minister and his former assistant to preventive detention, but the last time he rejected this possibility, last October, he warned that there was an “increasing” risk of flight as the trial date approached.
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