Overview
- Telecinco broadcast videos from José Luis Ábalos’s 60th birthday on December 8, 2019, showing Pedro Sánchez and senior ministers alongside Koldo García and businessman Víctor de Aldama.
- Perles says the event was held at a restaurant linked to Aldama, who paid for the meal, and that Aldama passed Ábalos a congratulatory call from Venezuelan official Delcy Rodríguez during the celebration.
- La Razón published a July 13, 2018 internal email indicating that Koldo García handled the paperwork to appoint Perles as temporary staff at the Madrid Government Delegation shortly after the PSOE took office.
- A Madrid court denied Ábalos’s emergency injunction to block the Telecinco interviews and opened proceedings to process his complaint.
- Perles has softened earlier claims about alleged cash abroad, saying she is not aware such sums were delivered, while maintaining that Iván Redondo told Ábalos his use of prostitutes had become known within the Government.