Bridge throws the ventorro bill after insinuating that he knew the ex -partner of Ábalos plugged in Ineco

“I don't know how I will go down in history. I will tell you how you will happen: cover -ups of the person responsible for the death of 227 people.” This has been closed on Thursday by the Minister of Transportation, Óscar Puente, his second appearance before the Senate Research Commission on the so -called 'Koldo Case', the alleged corruption produced in the department when José Luis Ábalos directed it. The socialist leader has thus replicated the insinuations launched from the PP, based on anonymous testomonies of “third parties”, that he personally knew the one who was a couple of Ábalos and possible plugged in public companies, Jéssica Rodríguez.

The appearance of Puente has coincided with the decision of the Judge of the Supreme Court that instructs the cause of sending to the National Court the proceedings related to the hiring of Rodríguez in two public companies “to value the existence of possible indications of crime” in the action of the then President of Adif, Isabel Pardo de Vera and agreed, in his case, to take a statement as investigation.

In the opinion of the judge, there are “quite signs” that Pardo de Vera participated in the “possibly irregular and capricious” hiring of one of the ex -partners of Ábalos in two public companies in which he charged a payroll for two years and means without carrying out “any work activity.” The judge says that Jéssica Rodríguez was “chosen freely” by Ábalos “with the relevant participation” of Koldo García.

Despite this judicial movement, Puente has ruled out ordering a new internal audit in the Ministry of Transportation or in public companies dependent on the department and involved in possible irregular contracts. The minister has defended that Transportes already did an exhaustive investigation and that the cause is open in judicial headquarters, in addition to the Senate Commission itself.

Little else has given itself a session that has been practically angry since its start. “I come in Son de Paz,” said the minister in his first reply shift, to questions from the UPN senator María Caballero. The representatives of the PP today present in the Commission have received the statement with joy, and Puente has replicated with a warning about what their defense was going to be if he felt attacked.

“I see that the PP is excited with the audit. If we start this way it will end like the Rosary of the Aurora. If you clarify so much, why have you not done any? It is more, I suggest one, the bill of the food of 'The ventorro'. It is a simple audit, only a document, put it on the table,” he replied, in reference to the food of the president of the General of the General. During the Dana that caused at least 228 dead in Valencia.

The food ticket has not been made public and Mazón shielded that he went to food as president of the PP, not the Generalitat, not to upload the receipt to the Generalitat transparency portal. The invoice, therefore, is now in the accounting of the PP, a party with a single NIF for all of Spain (except those of the parliamentary groups) and that have centralized all its accounts under the tutelage of the national leadership.

The “audit” in litigation is the one that has been claimed from the opposition on account of those last information about the possible plugs to the alleged ex -partners of Ábalos. From the PP they have taken advantage of the minister's refusal, who has defended that one was already made, that he has no intention of making another for each new “news” that comes out of the case and that the documentation on the contracts in question is available to the commission and the courts.

But the PP has ignored the minister, who has “recommended” not to continue on that line. The senator who on Thursday has questioned Puente, Francisco Martín Bernabé, has asked him as soon as he started his turn if he knew Jéssica Rodríguez before jumping the scandal, when Ábalos was minister. “No,” bridge has replicated. “I knew her?” He insisted, showing a photograph of the woman “I ask him why there are people who say he did know.”

The Minister of Transport has been scrambled against an “accusation” that has branded “very serious” as he is only “based on accusations of third parties” that, in addition, the Senator of the PP has not wanted to reveal, despite the insistent interpellations of the minister. “He has a bad style,” Bernabe has shaved. “He already took a picture of my daughter,” he remembered, in reference to his first appearance, last November. “I am not investigated, ask me as a person who is not an object of investigation,” he said.

Bridge and the PP senator have begun a verbal exchange that has ended with all the members of the commission arguing with each other. The minister has insisted that Bernabé revealed who had told him that he knew Jéssica Rodrígez. “If not, I will be forced not to continue with this statement,” he had settled.

The PP senator has not lasted. “Are you afraid?” “You must be afraid,” bridges have replicated. “Say what person he has told him,” he insisted. “I don't have to say it,” Benabé replied, and Puente has raised the tone to ask for the name, “unless you want to pass this commission for a conversation of goalkeepers.”

The accidental president of the commission, José Manuel Balseiro, has recriminated to bridge his responses and has chosen to “suspend” the session for five minutes.

Upon return, the interrogation has continued by very similar paths and not precisely aimed at obtaining information on the subject, beyond reproaches of the PP to Puente: “his position requires him to investigate and audit all the corruption scandals that affect his ministry, because not being able to do so that he is collaborating with the authors of those alleged crimes covering, hiding or silenced the facts”.

Bernabé has branded the women indicated in the case. “She herself has recognized in the Supreme Court that charged 1,060 euros per month. He was 30 months between Ineco and Tragsatec, plus 5 other payments for the extras of those two and a half years, it gives us a total of almost 40,000 euros of public money paid only to satisfy the sexual desires of the number 2 of the PSOE, do you think you are very similar to syndrogenzonería, Mr. Minister?” Insisted in trying to start the commitment of a new “audit” because the previous one was, in her own words, “of Mrs. Pepis”, and has questioned “how” will go on a bridge to history. The minister's replica to this phrase has allowed the session to be closed as it began: citing the Dana de Valencia and the continuity of Mazón at the head of the Generalitat.

Already with the session concluded, Senator Gerardo Camps has approached the minister to reproach him that he would have “thrown the dead on the table.” Bridge, visibly upset by the tone of the PP, has replied that it was only defending.