Overview
- The court opened a patrimonial investigation into former transport minister José Luis Ábalos and his ex‑advisor Koldo García after they failed to deposit the court‑ordered €60,000 security on time.
- The five‑day deadline to pay, set from January 13, expired without payment, prompting enforcement steps recorded in a procedural order.
- Judges warned that nonpayment could trigger embargo of assets sufficient to cover the amount and that the defendants must document insolvency if they lack seizable property.
- The Supreme Court trial over alleged irregularities in pandemic mask purchases is scheduled to start on April 7, with prosecutors requesting 24 years for Ábalos and 19 and a half for García.
- Co‑accused intermediary Víctor de Aldama has confessed, faces a seven‑year request without bail, and Anticorruption prosecutors do not oppose written testimony from Francina Armengol and Ángel Víctor Torres on April 22.